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The Anti-Defamation League's Peer Training Program: Developing a Sustainable Method for Ongoing Program Evaluation and Report Generation (Poster 35)

Sun, April 24, 2:30 to 4:00pm PDT (2:30 to 4:00pm PDT), San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Sails Pavillion

Abstract

One of the most pressing societal problems facing youth is identity-based harassment (e.g., based on race, sexual orientation). The Anti-Defamation League has been a national leader in combatting identity-based harassment and hate more broadly, with part of their mission focused on educating youth. The ADL New England branch established a partnership with Boston University researchers to evaluate an innovative school-based ADL program - The Peer Training Program (PTP) – which aims to reduce identity-based harassment through a peer leader model. The evaluation will end in Fall 2020, and the ADL would benefit from a sustainable evaluation framework for the PTP. As such, the primary goal of this project is to develop collaboratively a system through which the ADL can: (1) engage in ongoing program evaluation, and (2) provide partnering schools with reports generated from online student self-report surveys, which will provide information about their own students’ experiences with identity-based harassment. These activities are essential for any school-based program, but particularly for a bias-based prevention program like the PTP, which needs to be, by its nature, responsive to changing community demographics and shifts in groups targeted by bias-based harassment due to changes in the socio-political climate

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