Agency Description: Freeport West is a community-based human services organization that provides direct- services to youth and their families who have experienced poverty, oppression, institutionalization, and violence. Freeport West’s Mission is “supporting the efforts of families and communities to create environments where all children thrive.”   

Project Description: One of the programs offered at Freeport West is Project Solo, a program for runaway or homeless youth. Services offered to the youth include life skills training, family reunification services, and educational and employment services. A majority of the youth served by Project Solo are African Americans between the ages of 16-19.

ACET services: In 2003, Project Solo contracted with ACET for two years to assist in building staff capacity for the evaluation. ACET worked directly with Project Solo staff to design quantitative instruments (i.e., intake/exit forms, perception and behavior surveys, and a staff reflection survey), qualitative tools (i.e., focus group protocols and mechanisms for monitoring participants’ progress towards personal goals), and an administration protocol for data collection.

Date of Service: 2003-2005