Abstract
BackTrack is a multi-component, community-based intervention designed to build capacity amongst 14–17-year-old high risk young people. The aim of the current study seeks to explore community value and preferences for reducing youth crime and improving community safety using BackTrack in a rural setting in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The study design used discrete choice experiments (DCEs), designed in accordance with the 10-item checklist outlined by the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. The DCE was pilot tested on 43 participants to test feasibility and comprehension. A revised version of the survey was subsequently completed by 282 people over a 12-day period between 30 May 2016 and 10 June 2016, representing a survey response rate of 35%. Ninety per cent of respondents were residents of Armidale, the local rural town where BackTrack was implemented. The DCE generated results that consistently demonstrated a preference for social programs to address youth crime and community safety in the Armidale area. Respondents chose BackTrack over Greater Police Presence 75% of the time with an annual benefit of Australian dollars (AUD) 150 per household, equivalent to a community benefit of AUD 2.04 million. This study estimates a strong community preference for BackTrack relative to more policing (a community willing to pay equivalent to AUD 2.04 million) highlighting the clear value of including community preferences when evaluating community-based programs for high-risk young people.
Highlights
IntroductionIt is underpinned by six key principles derived from previous reviews of the literature [1,2] together with feedback from staff [3]: (i) in recognition that its participants are more likely to engage in multiple risk behaviour, the program is comprised of multiple components that target different areas of need simultaneously (e.g., personal development, skills training and legal issues); (ii) flexibility in the delivery of the program components, which reflects that the focus of young people’s needs shifts over time; (iii) flexibility in program attendance, so that participants are able to start, leave, and re-enter the program as they wish, or as their life circumstances permit; (iv) a requirement that young people in the program eventually actively participate in all components of the
The BackTrack program was established in Armidale in northern New South Wales (NSW), Australia, in 2006, for 14–17-year-old high risk young people
The aim of the current study is to address this lack of data and seeks to explore community value and preferences for reducing youth crime and improving community safety using BackTrack in a rural setting in Armidale, New South
Summary
It is underpinned by six key principles derived from previous reviews of the literature [1,2] together with feedback from staff [3]: (i) in recognition that its participants are more likely to engage in multiple risk behaviour, the program is comprised of multiple components that target different areas of need simultaneously (e.g., personal development, skills training and legal issues); (ii) flexibility in the delivery of the program components, which reflects that the focus of young people’s needs shifts over time; (iii) flexibility in program attendance, so that participants are able to start, leave, and re-enter the program as they wish, or as their life circumstances permit; (iv) a requirement that young people in the program eventually actively participate in all components of the.
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