SECT Center Advisory Board Presentation: Third Quarter, 2005

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SECT Center Advisory Board Presentation Third
Quarter, 2005

• David V. Perkins, and Josh A. Raines
• Ball State University

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Standard SE Outcomes

• Number of consumers enrolled,
• Number of consumers employed,
• Types of consumer employment,
• Consumer closure rates,
• Criminal involvement and satisfaction.

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Presentation Points

• Analyses presented are broken up into two basic
  snapshots of time-specific groups.
• The first of these snapshots is made using what
  has happened for the outcomes of interest from
  January 1, 2005 through September 1, 2005
• Conversely, we will look at one year ago (January
  1, 2004 through September 1, 2004) for the other
  comparison group.

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Consumer Enrollments, 2004
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Consumer Enrollments, 2005
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Employment Rates, 2004
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Employment Rates, 2005
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Type of Employment, 2004
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Type of Employment, 2005
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More on Employment

• Consumer employment rates have seemed to stay
  pretty steady, exhibiting similar trends for type
  of employment as well.
• However, we are starting to see a slight decrease
  in both average wage, and average number of hours
  worked per week.

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Closure Rates

• Closure rates look slightly different for the
  current year than is the case for the previous
  year.

Closure Rates, 2004
Closure Rates, 2005
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Criminal History

• Findings were resented at the Tenth Biennial
  Conference of the Society for Community Research
  and Action in Champaign, Illinois over the summer
  of 2005 regarding criminal history and measures
  of satisfaction.
• Findings indicate that both consumers and
  employers of consumers with criminal backgrounds
  reported a significantly higher level of
  satisfaction with SE (p .02).

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Why Criminal History Makes a Difference

• It is thought that perhaps those consumers with
  past criminal involvement realize the importance
  of their situation, and come to report more
  satisfaction with services for affording them
  another chance.
• Further, employers see this determination in
  consumers, and also detail increased satisfaction
  with their performance and their experiences with
  SE services.