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YFE TIG Week: Moving beyond the ‘Whys’ and ‘Whats’ of adolescent-led evaluation to practical ‘Hows’ by Susan Igras and Ousséni Kinda

2 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 1, 2021 August 20, 2021

Greetings. We’re Susan Igras (Senior Technical Advisor at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health and occasional Consultant) and Ousséni Kinda (Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at the Norwegian Refugee Council in Nigeria). These past few years, we have teamed up to promote youth-led participatory evaluation in West and Central Africa, drawing from our own experiences supporting …

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YFE TIG Week: You(th) Matter: A Collaborative, Youth-focused, Community-Involved Inquiry about Mental Health and Well-being by Christina Koumoutsidis and Charlotte Schwass

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / August 31, 2021 August 20, 2021

Hello Evaluators! Hello Evaluators! Our names are Christina Koumoutsidis and Charlotte Schwass and we are two research assistants part of a group of educational evaluators. We are writing to share our experiences collaborating with youth on a school-community mental health and well-being (MHWB) inquiry. For the past three years, we have been involved in an …

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YFE TIG Week: Hosting a Youth Summit to Promote Community Change by Deacon Dzierzawski and Mary Ann Wojton

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / August 30, 2021 August 20, 2021

We are Deacon Dzierzawski (President) and Mary Ann Wojton (VP of Research) from Epiphany Community Services. We have worked with Sandy Rayhons (Director), Allies for Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP) in Hancock County, Iowa, on an annual Youth Summit for eight years. We would like to share some tips on organizing and implementing this youth summit. …

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YFE TIG Week: Accessing Youth Expertise in Designing Surveys for Youth by Mary Murray

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / August 29, 2021 August 20, 2021

Greetings. I’m Mary Murray, founder of of MEMconsultants. For two decades my team has built the capacity of youth-serving organizations to use evaluation practices to strengthen programs. Consistently, this has involved gathering information from youth via end of program surveys, interviews and focus groups. Often, we incorporate activities that expand beyond simply collecting information from …

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The Power of Youth Voice in Data Conversations by Stephanie Mui

5 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / January 9, 2021 January 8, 2021

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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Program Design TIG Week: Research Activism for Youth: Facilitating a Virtual, Community-based Skill- Building Program by Asma M. Ali & Myles Castro

1 Comment / Program Design, Youth Focused Evaluation / November 23, 2020 November 21, 2020

We are Asma M. Ali Ph.D. and Myles Castro MPH of the Sinai Urban Health Institute [SUHI] in Chicago. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we recently changed the format of SUHI’s Research Activism for Youth [RAY] program from an in-person into a 100% virtual program. RAY is a 6-week community-based program that empowers youth ages …

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Interviewing Minors in Schools

8 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Qualitative Methods, Youth Focused Evaluation / October 8, 2020 October 4, 2020

We are Christine Crumbacher, PhD, Evaluation Specialist at Greenville County Schools in South Carolina, and Michael Sikes, PhD, independent Program Evaluator. Each of us evaluates educational programs that serve young people. Interviewing minors presents unique challenges. These include obtaining parental consent, interviewee participation, protecting participants, and collecting detailed data. Hot Tip: Know district policies concerning …

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Increasing Youth Engagement in Focus Groups by Taneisha Lee

3 Comments / Qualitative Methods, Youth Focused Evaluation / March 5, 2020 December 28, 2019

Hello! My name is Taneisha Lee, CEO of Transformative Research and Evaluation, an independent research and evaluation consulting firm in Atlanta, Georgia. We are currently evaluating a Minority Youth Violence Prevention II (MYVP2) grant-funded program for one of our clients, Clayton County System of Care. Two of the grant’s goals are to reduce youth crime …

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YFE TIG Week: Creating Youth Inclusive Spaces within Adult-Centric Events by Ross VeLure Roholt

1 Comment / Uncategorized, Youth Focused Evaluation / December 13, 2019 December 10, 2019

Hello, I am Ross VeLure Roholt, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. This year I collaborated with others on the YFE TIG to sponsor and host a group of young people to attend and participate in the American Evaluation Association meeting in Minneapolis. Over the last decade youth-led evaluation has grown in scope and …

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