AVSI Foundation – USAID/SCORE Project Psychosocial support Forum - Victoria falls in Zimbabwe. Rita LAROK OTIM Impact of life skills training on resilience of orphaned and vulnerable adolescents and youth
Jan 21, 2016
AVSI Foundation – USAID/SCORE ProjectPsychosocial support Forum - Victoria falls in Zimbabwe.
Rita LAROK OTIM
Impact of life skills training on resilience of orphaned and vulnerable adolescents and youth
Sustainable Comprehensive Responses for Vulnerable children and their families (SCORE) at a glance
• Donor: USAID/PEPFAR • Implementation: AVSI Foundation with CARE, TPO, FHI360• Duration: May 2011-Apr 2016, Budget: 32.6m USD• Coverage: 35 districts in Uganda.• Goal: To decrease the vulnerability of moderately and critically
vulnerable children (VC) and their households.• RA 1: Improved socio-economic status of OVC families.• RA 2: Improved food security and nutrition.• RA3: Improve access to protection and legal services.• RA 4: Increased capacity to access acquire or provide critical
services --- Interventions: Parenting, LIFE SKILLS..
Life skills ApproachDescriptionTarget• Adolescents 12-18 and
youth 19-35 in and out of school
Approach• Group and modular
trainings • 1-2 week practice breaks• Pre and post training
assessments
Research group:• # 553 sample participants
from 35 districts• Average age: 18• Gender: 48% F (267) and 52%
M (286)• Period of research:
2013/2014
Life skills-Activity based modules
• Module 1:Getting Started • Module 2:Knowing myself • Module 3:Relationships• Module 4:Coping with Emotions• Module 5: Passive, Aggressive &
Assertive Behavior• Module 6: Growing up • Module 7: Communication• Module 8: Decision Making• Module 9: Substance Abuse• Module 10:Reaching my Goals
and Dreams
Theory of Change - Parameters
• Relationships – strength and quality • Coping with Emotions – Feelings/ Mood• Handling Conflict – Ladder with levels• Communication skills - Quality• Psychosocial wellbeing - Scale
Results: Relationships
• Significant improvements in the proportion of strong, fair and not close relationships
Relationships 1Broken 2Not close 3Fair 4Strong Grand Total1Broken 1.0% 0.3% 0.3% 0.5% 2.0%2Not close 0.1% 9.2% 5.6% 5.9% 20.8%3Fair 0.3% 1.2% 19.9% 17.7% 39.1%4Strong 0.1% 0.8% 2.9% 34.4% 38.1%Grand Total 1.3% 11.6% 28.6% 58.5% 100%
Results: Coping with emotions
Significant REDUCTION in Anger p-value: 0.0000
ANGRY 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 85 26 13 1242-average 42 29 13 843-high 156 68 69 293Grand Total 283 123 95 501
ANGRY
Results: Coping with emotions
Significant Improvements in Happinessp-value: 0.0000
HappyHAPPY 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 6 4 29 392-average 8 52 603-high 9 16 377 402Grand Total 15 28 458 501
Results: Coping with emotions: Nervous
NERVOUS 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 229 27 18 2742-average 35 18 6 593-high 101 23 44 168Grand Total 365 68 68 501
SAD 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 97 16 12 1252-average 143 78 12 2333-high 61 33 49 143Grand Total 301 127 73 501
SHY 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 119 23 17 1592-average 71 38 12 1213-high 135 37 49 221Grand Total 325 98 78 501
Significant REDUCTION in children nervous (p-value: 0.0000)
Results: Coping with emotions: Sad
NERVOUS 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 229 27 18 2742-average 35 18 6 593-high 101 23 44 168Grand Total 365 68 68 501
SAD 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 97 16 12 1252-average 143 78 12 2333-high 61 33 49 143Grand Total 301 127 73 501
SHY 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 119 23 17 1592-average 71 38 12 1213-high 135 37 49 221Grand Total 325 98 78 501
Significant REDUCTION in Sadness p-value: 0.0000
Results: Coping with emotions: Shy
NERVOUS 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 229 27 18 2742-average 35 18 6 593-high 101 23 44 168Grand Total 365 68 68 501
SAD 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 97 16 12 1252-average 143 78 12 2333-high 61 33 49 143Grand Total 301 127 73 501
SHY 1-low 2-average 3-high Grand Total1-low 119 23 17 1592-average 71 38 12 1213-high 135 37 49 221Grand Total 325 98 78 501
Results: Handling Conflict – Ladder with levels
Results: Conflict Ladder
Significant Improvements in Conflict management
Conflcit Ladder 1 2 3 4 Grand Total1 14.6% 7.5% 3.2% 0.2% 25.5%2 12.0% 14.2% 3.4% 0.4% 30.0%3 9.2% 22.3% 3.7% 0.6% 35.8%4 3.2% 3.7% 1.7% 0.2% 8.8%Grand Total 39.0% 47.8% 12.0% 1.3% 100.0%
Results: Communication skills - Quality
• Less Not good communicators BUT more aggressive communicators
Results: Psychosocial wellbeing - Scale
• Significant improvements in psychosocial wellbeing
Timing n Std. Err Mean t p-value
Pretest 438 0.027 2.89 -16.3 0.0000
Posttest 438 0.017 3.39
Assessment based on Paired sample t-test using an index of psychosocial wellbeing
Conclusions • AVSI Foundation USAID/SCORE Life skills training does have a significant effect on improving resilience of adolescents and youth
Thank you!Contacts:Rita Larok
Tel: +256771497551Email: [email protected]
and SCORE Secretariat Tel: 0312-501614
[email protected]://www.score.or.ug