My name is Katie Richards-Schuster and I’m the Chair for the Youth Focused Evaluation (YFE) TIG. As we wrap up another year and annual conference nears, it seems fitting to reflect on the future. From the position of chair, there has never been a more exciting time to work in the area of YFE. When …
Greetings! My name is Catherine Cooper, and I am the Faculty Director of the Educational Partnership Center and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I invite you to explore and use the resources from the Bridging Multiple Worlds Alliance (BMWA). The BMWA is a growing network of researchers, educators, and policy …
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My name is Felicia Sullivan and I research youth civic engagement at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), a non-partisan research center at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Citizenship & Public Service. Building youth-focused evaluation strategies and working with practitioners are important ways CIRCLE links academic research to what …
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We are Julie Poncelet, Catherine Borgman-Arboleda, and Jorge Arboleda of Action Evaluation Collaborative, independent consultants who use evaluation to strengthen social change. We want to share our experiences using participatory video (PV) in evaluations with youth. PV is a dynamic, powerful approach whereby youth use video to capture everything from their stories of change to …
Hello, this is Jessica Jerney from the Extension Center for Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. I recently served as Project Coordinator for the Innovations on Youth Roles in Evaluation and Assessment project. This initiative included a learning cohort, symposia speakers’ series (featuring Kim Sabo Flores and Katie Richards-Schuster), and applied research. As a …
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Hi, we are Anne Gleason and Miranda Yates from the Program Evaluation and Planning Department at Good Shepherd Services in New York City and we would like to share some tools we put together for a youth research camp. Two summers ago, we partnered with youth in one of our afterschool programs to conduct research …
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Our names are Jessica Manta-Meyer, Jocelyn Atkins and Saili Willis and we are evaluators at Public Profit, an evaluation firm with a special focus on out-of-school time programs for youth. We usually evaluate networks of after school programs as a whole (some of which serve more than 20,000 youth, where a survey is indeed one …
Hello, my name is Kim Sabo Flores and I am David White. We are honored to serve as co-chairs of the Youth Focused Evaluation Topical Interest Group (YFE TIG). As we prepare for the 2014 conference and our annual business meeting, we have to acknowledge how truly remarkable it is that a loosely knit group …
Hello! I am Melanie Hwalek, CEO of SPEC Associates. For almost two decades (zowie!), SPEC Associates has been working with Girl Scouts of the USA to measure outcomes from various Girl Scout programs. For almost a decade, we’ve been the national evaluator for the federal Rural Youth Development grants that Girl Scouts of the USA …
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Hello, my name is Mariah Kornbluh, graduate student in Ecological Community Psychology at Michigan State University. I am an evaluator and ally with youth in redressing adultism. In an earlier post on adultism, my friend and colleagueMaddy Boesen discussed some of the ways adultism might manifest in youth-focused evaluations and shared some tips for identifying …
