Ensure Young People are Truly Prepared for College by Evaluating Your Program with Hello Insight: College Readiness Over the past two years we have worked alongside the YMCA of the USA to develop an easy-to-use continuous improvement tool with real-time, research-based reporting for their Achievers program. But this tool was
Hello Insight: Sports is Now Available to All Sports-Based Youth Development Programs Every season, we see the young people in sports-based youth development (SBYD) programs come into their own on the field, the court, and the rink. The personal skills that develop through being part
Strategies for Deepening Youth Engagement in Your Program How do we ensure young people have “a voice and a choice” in our program? How do we incorporate young people’s desires, needs, and perspectives while still meeting program goals? It’s
Effectively Communicating Results Youth programs need to communicate with many kinds of stakeholders — people with different kinds of interests in the program, such as parents, staff, and board members. Communication needs in your program might include
Jump-Start Your Thinking on Data-Driven Decision-Making “Data-driven decision-making” sounds good in theory; in practice, there can be a long road between having data and actually using it to drive decisions. While it’s up to each program to find
