- Title
- Improving outcomes for unemployed and homeless young people: Findings of the YP4 clinical controlled trial of joined up case management
- Creator
- Grace, Marty; Gill, Peter
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/77110
- Identifier
- vital:7663
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407X.2014.911926
- Identifier
- ISSN:0312-407X
- Abstract
- The YP4 study was a clinical controlled trial (CCT) of joined up services for young people experiencing both homelessness and unemployment in Victoria, Australia. The joined up service delivery (J group, n = 222) participants were offered intensive client-centred case management, involving direct provision of a range of services as well as the brokering of additional services. The standard services (S group, n = 174) participants remained eligible for standard services. Access to the Australian Government income support agency's (Centrelink) administrative data provided a retention rate close to 90% over the three annual data collection points of the study (baseline, 12 months and 24 months). Both groups improved their circumstances over the two years of the trial. The results showed no statistically significant treatment effects. The effect for employment earnings was approaching significance (p =.06) with J group increasing their employment earnings to a greater extent than S group. The findings and their implications for the implementation of joined up case management, future policy and practice, and future homelessness research is discussed. © 2014 Australian Association of Social Workers.
- Relation
- Australian Social Work Vol. 67, no. 3 (2014), p. 419-437
- Rights
- © 2014 Australian Association of Social Workers
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Case Management; Clinical Controlled Trial; Efficacy; Joined Up Services; Youth Homelessness; 1607 Social Work; 1605 Policy and Administration
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