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Social Impact Bond Evaluation

Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience Program at Rikers Island

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Impact Evaluation of the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) Program

In 2012, New York City launched the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) program, a large-scale initiative serving 16- to 18-year-old youth held at the Rikers Island jail complex. The ABLE program provided Moral Reconation Therapy to young people with the aim of improving individual outcomes and reducing the number of youth who were rea ...

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September 21, 2016
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Impact Evaluation of the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) Program at Rikers Island

The Vera Institute of Justice served as the independent evaluator of the nation’s first social impact bond—an innovative form of pay-for-success contracting that leverages private funding to finance public services—to fund the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) for youth at Rikers Island. Vera employed a quasi-experimental design to d ...

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July 15, 2015
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