Evaluability Assessment and Baseline Study of the Supporting Collective Healing in the Wake of Harm Program, 5 U.S. cities, 2018-2019 (ICPSR 37624)
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Kelle Barrick, RTI International;
Elizabeth Tibaduiza, RTI International
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37624.v1
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The Collective Healing Initiative (CHI) is a demonstration project supporting five law enforcement agencies from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Rapid City, South Dakota, and Oakland, California. The purpose was to work with their communities to promote collective healing in the wake of traumatic events. The law enforcement agencies worked collaboratively with various community partners and service providers to implement trauma-informed strategies to improve police-community relations, enhance victim services, and promote officer wellness. Researchers conducted an evaluability assessment and baseline study of the CHI using a mixed methods study design including a comprehensive document review, site visits, a capacity and network survey, and a stakeholder survey. Data analyses included a rigorous qualitative analysis of interview data, a social network analysis of grantee and partner collaboration, and a descriptive analysis of stakeholder perceptions of the CHI and the training and technical assistance provided. Findings from each data source were triangulated to develop site descriptions and logic models, assess collaboration and partnerships, conduct evaluability assessments to inform future research and evaluation plans, and assess the training and technical assistance delivered to the sites.
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City
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Although the study included a qualitative analysis of site visit interview data, the Principal Investigators were not able to fully de-identify the interviews while maintaining their usefulness. The NIJ waived the archiving requirement of the qualitative data.
- The variable SITE (DS1, DS2, and DS3) and SITEID (DS4 and DS5) has been de-identified by the Principal Investigators to shield the 5 cities where this study took place in order to protect respondent confidentiality.
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The purposes of the study were to:
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In brief, the study covers five topic areas associated with planning, implementing, and assessing the evaluability of the Collective Healing Initiative (CHI): (1) type and extent of collaboration and partnerships with local organizations and agencies;
(2) approaches used for developing the local initiatives;
(3) community perceptions of the local initiative;
(4) demonstration site perceptions of the TTA provided, and
(5) future evaluability of the CHI overall and locally.
The mixed-methods design included participating in regular meetings with the The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the demonstration sites; reviewing documents associated with program planning, implementation, and the Training and Technical Assistance (TTA); facilitating site visits and in-person interviews with each site; administering a web-based Capacity and Network Survey to the grantees and their partners, and administering a web-based Stakeholder Survey to grantees and their partners.
Analytic strategies included qualitative analysis of interview transcripts, descriptive quantitative and social network analysis of the Capacity and Network Survey data, and descriptive quantitative analysis of the Stakeholder Survey data.
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For both the Capacity and Network Survey and the Stakeholder Survey, all members of the universe were invited to participate.
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Collective Healing grantees and their partners.
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For the Capacity and Network Survey, the overall response rate when partial completes were included was 73%. 60 individuals were invited to complete the survey, 39 completed the entire survey and 5 partially completed the survey.
For the Stakeholder Survey, the overall response rate when partial completes were included was 71%. 107 individuals were invited to complete the survey, 60 completed the entire survey and 16 partially completed the survey.
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None.
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2024-01-16
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2024-01-16 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
