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Voices: An Evaluation of Gender Responsive Treatments for Girls
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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
OJJDP's Demonstration Programs Division Grants were established to provide grants, cooperative agreements, and other assistance to organizations. This program is authorized by the Department of Defense and Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011, Pub. L. 112-110.
The VOICES curriculum is an innovative, gender-responsive, holistic, multidimensional, trauma informed, group intervention for adolescent girls. It is widely used nationally and internationally in community-based and juvenile justice programs to treat adolescent girls with mental health and substance abuse problems. The proposed study will address a critical gap in the clinical and research literature on treatment by estimating effect sizes associated with participation in VOICES on delinquency, psychological functioning and substance abuse outcomes among adolescent girls. Girls (n=150) between 14-17 years of age who are admitted to an outpatient mental health clinic for behavioral health issues and meet study eligibility criteria will meet with a research assistant for a baseline interview. Girls will then be randomly assigned either to VOICES or Services-As-Usual for nine weeks of treatment. Both the short-term and long-term efficacy of VOICES curriculum will be assessed. This supplemental award provides the balance of funds originally requested by the grantee in FY 2010 under the competitive solicitation for Evaluation of Girls' Delinquency Prevention Programs.
