*New Research Alert* San Francisco restorative juvenile justice program that serves as an alternative to traditional criminal justice processing reduced the likelihood of future arrest by 30% over 4 year period: bit.ly/Make-it-Right Thread (1/7) 
The program, known as Make-it-Right, (MIR) provides youth charged with certain felonies the opportunity to meet with the person they harmed and to develop and complete a plan to make amends instead of being charged by the DA's office. bit.ly/Make-it-Right (2/7)
Finding 1: The MIR program enrollment rate was high: four out of five juveniles referred to the program enrolled. More than half of enrollees completed the program and ultimately did not face juvenile prosecution. bit.ly/Make-it-Right (3/7)
Finding 2: MIR led to significant declines in rearrest. The rearrest rate for youth assigned to MIR was 24% at six months, which is approximately 20 percentage points lower than the control group rate of 43%. bit.ly/Make-it-Right (4/7)
Finding 3: Program completion likely explains the declines in rearrest. The rearrest rate for youth who completed MIR was 19%. That’s nearly forty percentage points lower than the rate for youth who enrolled, but did not complete: 58%. bit.ly/Make-it-Right (5/7)
This evaluation was possible because @SFDAOffice established the program as a randomized control trial (RCT). Learn more about the RCT here: a2jlab.org/guest-post-eva… (6/7)
The policy brief and a working paper, authored by @yotamshemtov, Steve Raphael, and @juliaalissa are available here: bit.ly/Make-it-Right Thank you to all of our partners for making this research possible. (7/7) END
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