How Youth-Serving Programs Can Use Evaluation to Strengthen Implementation, Tell a Clearer Impact Story, and Prepare for Future Funding. Youth relationship education programs are changing lives every day, but many organizations struggle to clearly demonstrate what youth are learning, how programs are making a difference, and how to use data to strengthen implementation and future funding opportunities. In this interactive webinar, participants will explore practical, approachable ways to use evaluation as a tool for learning, improvement, and impact storytelling. Through real-world examples and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to develop meaningful evaluation questions, identify useful indicators and evidence, and translate findings into a compelling story about what youth are learning, experiencing, and applying. Whether you are new to evaluation or looking to strengthen your current efforts, this session will help you move beyond funder compliance and use data more strategically to support youth, programs, and communities. Objectives: Participants will…
Program Evaluators
Strengthening Facilitation Skills: A Training Curriculum for Programs Working with Youth, is a free, three-module curriculum designed to help facilitators of youth-serving programs improve the quality of their facilitation skills. It was developed as part of a formative evaluation of Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education programs conducted by Mathematica and its partner Public Strategies in conjunction with two community-based organizations called STREAMS. Join Erin Welch and Scott Roby for this webinar where they will share details about the curriculum’s development, describe its resources, and explain how it can be used to foster facilitators’ development. Learn how you can maximize learning and engagement using best practices and participant-centered and trauma-informed facilitation Objectives: Participants will internalize the goals and development process of the Strengthening Facilitation Skills curriculum. Participants will explore the content and resources included in the curriculum. Participants will understand how to use the curriculum and hear tips from the field….
If you find your team getting stuck while addressing persistent challenges, you might benefit from an updated approach to program improvement. Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a systematic process for identifying challenges, developing and testing solutions, and using data to determine next steps. Join CQI experts from Mathematica who will offer attendees an introduction to CQI. The Mathematica team will also describe resources that can help strengthen your program’s improvement processes. The session will feature a CQI cycle planning tool to help organizations get started or to refresh existing program improvement processes. The session will also explore foundational topics—such as setting up and managing a CQI team and road-testing improvement strategies—and related resources. This webinar is geared for practitioners who are new to CQI as well as those looking to strengthen existing processes. Objectives: Participants will learn: What continuous quality improvement (CQI) is and why it is important How to…