youth focused evaluation

We are Sara Plachta Elliott, executive director of the Youth Development Resource Center in Detroit, and Alicia McCormick, youth development director at Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, a community development organization in Detroit that provides a variety of youth programs. We collaborate to improve youth program quality, making the improvement process more youth-led along the way. Many …

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Hi, I am Cassandra Jessee and I serve as the director of the USAID-funded YouthPower Learning project, a youth-focused knowledge-creating, -curating and -convening project and through it, I represent Making Cents International and the International Center for Research on Women in Washington, DC.   We defined our core approach, positive youth development (PYD) to ensure …

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I’m Nicole Clark, social worker and owner of Nicole Clark Consulting (http://www.nicoleclarkconsulting.com), where I partner with community-based groups, local/national organizations, schools and more to design, implement, and evaluate programs and services geared toward women and girls of color. In 2015, I conducted an impact evaluation on a 6-week intensive summer leadership program geared towards high …

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My name is Susan Igras, a Senior Advisor at the Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University whose work is mainly focused in Africa and Asia.  One of our projects is operating in urban-poor areas of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.  Designed to evaluate scalable interventions that address social and normative factors that limit adolescent and …

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