http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ccs_ucsb_rw/rss Recent eScholarship items from Other Recent Work Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:16:47 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x29k460 <p>In 2009 the Santa Barbara School District launched an intervention program for some of the students identified by school personnel as possibly involved in gangs. In this pilot year the program was evaluated by a research team led by Dr. Victor Rios, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, to document the program’s implementation, analyze program efficacy, and determine student needs. This evaluation included qualitative pre test surveys completed by 59 students and qualitative post test surveys completed by 84 students. These surveys were designed to measure the students’ attitudes towards school, community and family, and also allowed for the confidential reporting of violence, victimization, crime and gang-involvement. The evaluation also consisted of participant observations of group sessions, events and workshops in which four researchers shadowed the outreach worker to witness the immediate impact participation in the program had on students. The evaluators also... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x29k460 Tue, 2 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Rios, Victor M., Ph.D. Lopez-Aguado, Patrick Galicia, Mario Lopez-Tello, Gisselle Flores, Jerry Sarabia, Rachel