Raise Foundation 2024 Evaluation Report

Raise Foundation | Evaluation Report 2024

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Independent evaluation In 2024, the University of Melbourne and the Social Outcomes Lab finalised the independent evaluations of the impact of Raise Youth Mentoring.​

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The evaluations were funded by the Australian Government.​ The Independent Outcome evaluation compared the outcomes for young people in the Raise Youth Mentoring program to a matched control group of other young people.​ The evaluation found that Raise Youth Mentoring caused positive outcomes across the domains of help seeking, resilience, hope for the future and school engagement.​ This means that young people have better outcomes than other similar young people after six months of Raise Youth Mentoring (see opposite page, top).

​The Independent Economic evaluation calculated a Social Return on Investment (SROI) of Raise Youth Mentoring. The SROI was calculated by measuring the program costs and the expected benefits to our community. The evaluation found that Raise Youth Mentoring returns $4.37 in social benefits for every $1 invested (see opposite page, below). We are grateful for the support from the Evaluation Advisory Group members who provided advice and review for the evaluations from design through to completion.

Raise Evaluation Advisory Group members

Alyssa Milton, University of Sydney​

Amara Bains, ARACY​

Ariella Meltzer, Centre for Social Impact​

Azhar Potia, University of Queensland​

Marisa Coppinger, Australian Government​

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