Here are results from a variety of ongoing and completed projects that have applied the Transition framework to social change work.

• The Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC) reported that young women in foster care who participated in Transition-enhanced programming to prepare them for independence faired better than their peers in the areas of mental health and placement stability, and tended to refrain from health-risking sexual behavior. The OSLC evaluation is ongoing and has followed 13 young women since the program’s inception in 2002. They will publish a final report in October, 2007. Click here to read their 2004 interim report.

• In a police-youth reconciliation project in Boston, the Center For Teen Empowerment found that 100% of police members who had been involved in the project reported building better relationships with youth. Likewise, 100% of youth members of the Core Group reported building better relationships with police. On both sides, everyone said they were willing to engage in other efforts to improve police-youth relations.

• After using the Transition framework to guide their efforts to make schools in Bushwick, Brooklyn safer for LGBTQ youth, Make The Road by Walking (MTR) reported an increase in the percentage of students who felt their schools provided programs and support for these youth.  In one of the high schools in which MTR launched its Safe Schools Campaign , 90% of students surveyed felt their school was safe for LGBTQ youth – up from 54% before the campaign was initiated.

• The Center on Violence and Recovery (CVR) at New York University is currently gathering data to measure the impact of the Transitions framework in its program to reduce domestic violence in Nogales, Arizona.  Through the Construyendo Circulos de Paz (CCP) project, offenders, their partners (victims), and family members are introduced to the Transitions framework and use it to understand the triggers for violence and guide them toward less violent relationships. CVR is collecting reports on the use of Transitions in the Circles, conducting interviews with participants on the impact of the framework, and is piloting the Community Experience of Reconciliation and Transitions (CERT) – a survey to gauge a community’s understanding of the framework.  Additionally, CVR is conducting a study funded by the National Science Foundation to compare outcomes from the CCP program and a traditional batterer intervention program.