Return on Investment Study:

The Return on Investment  Model quantifies the benefits of Friends of the Children’s early intervention model and compares those benefits to the program’s costs. This rigorous approach was developed with the Harvard Business School Association of Oregon in order to:

1. Demonstrate and verify the long-term value of Friends of the Children’s mentoring program.
2. Connect to forthcoming data being developed in Friends of the Children’s longitudinal research.
3. Define and support future measurements of our program model.

Conclusions:

→  The break-even age at which program benefits from a mentored child exceed FOTC program costs is 20 years old.

→  Friends of the Children benefits to children and society are currently calculated to be 6.7 times the program costs.