Hello! My name is Stephanie Mui, and I am a Senior Program Analyst at Good Shepherd Services, evaluating afterschool programs serving elementary and middle school participants. One of my favorite parts of my job is involving afterschool youth council participants in the program performance management cycle, which has served to enrich and expand the impact …
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Greetings from the Get Outdoors Leadville Youth Research Team! We are writing from 10,200’ in Leadville, Colorado. We live in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, but many of our friends and classmates do not venture out into nature. This year we completed a project to learn “How do we connect youth in our community …
We’re Tara Gregory, Director of Research and Evaluation, and Bailey Blair, Youth Leadership in Kansas Program Associate, at Wichita State University’s Center for Community Support and Research (CCSR). CCSR was awarded a grant last year by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services to provide technical assistance and research services to leadership groups for …
Hi, I’m Mary Arnold, a professor and youth development specialist at Oregon State University. In a previous AEA365 post I presented three tips for successfully engaging youth in participatory evaluation (YPE) projects. Here are a few more tips that can help ensure the success of your YPE endeavors. Hot Tips: Teach the Cycle. As trained …
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Hi, I’m Katie Richards-Schuster from the Michigan Youth and Community Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Over the last 10 years, the Michigan Youth and Community Program has been working to engage young people in community-based participatory evaluation. Much of our work has focused on capacity building activities—training and education—but also …
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