XarXaJoves pilot evaluation
During 2017-2019, D’EP Institut has carried out the evaluation of the pilot of XarXaJoves Program in Barcelona, Barcelonés Nord and Lleida.
The objectives of the evaluation of this comprehensive and community support space for youth from 16 to 25 who suffer from mental health problems have been:
•Evaluate the implementation of the 3 pilot experiences.
•Evaluate the satisfaction and impact of the service among direct beneficiaries (young people).
•Evaluate the satisfaction and impact of the service among direct beneficiaries (families, youth entities, educational centres and mental health professionals).
•Identify the strengths and the improvements aspects of the pilot experiences for the implementation of XarXaJoves in the Catalan territory.
To achieve these objectives, the activities carried out by D’EP Institut have been the following:
•Young people: baseline surveys, intermediate surveys, final surveys and focus groups.
•Professionals: face-to-face group interviews with professionals of the Program, telephone interviews with external professionals, alternative reports to participants in the Program who disengaged before 6 months, and sheet of global indicators for each participant.
•Families: telephone interviews.