Nancy Jacobs and Terri Jackson, with Brenda Vargas and Leah Namour (1998). Fountain for Youth Evaluation Summary. New York, NY:
Although gun violence and homicides have been declining in recent years, gun-related crime remains at unacceptably high levels.
Schwartz, Robert G. (2000). Juvenile Justice and Positive Youth Development. In Youth Development: Issues, Challenges and Directions (pp. 233-279). Philadelphia,
A framework is offered in which organizational productivity and program outcomes are conceptualized as a product of a transformational process, in which organizational capacities transform vision into productive activity, using the resources of an organization and activated through an environment of collective empowerment
Evaluation is often conceptualized in terms of static research designs focused on specific questions of programmatic process or outcome. Another way to conceptualize evaluation is to broaden its scope, role, and methods and to integrate its principles and processes into every aspect of a program’s organizational environment.
Case processing tends to be examined with data analysis or evaluation designs. Both limit our understanding of how case processing as a whole operates and how its parts relate to each other. This article suggests queue simulation modeling as a method for dealing with these issues.
