Youth Evaluation Access (YEA!) - Training & Coaching For Youth Evaluators

This non profit youth evaluation training offers specific workshops, coaching, and resources for children, youth, and their adult allies to evaluate their own programs and organizations. Our coaching and workshops are designed to meet your individual needs. Each Youth Evaluation Access (YEA!) Workshop deals with a specific phase of the evaluation process and is offered separately. Youth Evaluation Access Packages group workshops together to allow you to work through the entire evaluation process.

For help designing your own Youth Evaluation Access Packages please contact an Evaluation Access Coach at info@evaluationaccess.com.

Cost ranges from $100 - $800 - see our course schedules for more information.

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Starting your own YPE Project (2 instructional hours)

In this three-session non profit youth evaluation training workshop, participants will explore some of the most common questions about beginning a YPE project including:

1. Why should I conduct a YPE? What are the benefits?
2. Do youth really want to participate in evaluation?
3. Which youth should participate?
4. How many youth should be involved?
5. Should youth be compensated for their participation?   
6. How old do does someone have to be to participate?
7. What is the value of engaging youth of different ages and capacities?
8. Can youth really conduct effective and useful evaluations that we can trust?
9. Who should facilitate the YPE process?
10. What happens when a YPE project is conducted within a program that is not participatory?
11. How do we engage and prepare additional stakeholders in the process, particularly those in powerful positions?

Required text for this course is Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, chapters one and three.  The workshop will be facilitated by the author, Dr. Kim Sabo Flores. After each session you will have the opportunity to continue the discussion and advance the field in our online workspace.

Specifics: This workshop includes two one-hour real-time classroom sessions and unlimited peer-to-peer support in our online workspace. Click here to purchase the required reading.

Schedule: This workshop will take place on  March, 12th and March 19th 2010 at 3PM EST. Cost: $150
 
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Developing The YPE Team (4 instructional hours)

During this two-session non profit youth evaluation training workshop, participants will learn a key strategies for developing new types of youth/adult partnerships and how to create YPE teams that afford youth and authentic voice in the evaluation process.  In between the two real-time online sessions you will have the opportunity to try out some activities and share your learnings, thoughts, comments and questions in our online workspace.

Specifics: This workshop includes two one-hour real-time classroom session, two hours of online consultation, and unlimited peer-to-peer support.  Required text for this course is Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, chapter 4. Click here to purchase the required reading.

Recommendations: It is recommended that you engage your entire YPE team in this workshop.

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Developing a YPE Plan (4 instructional hours)

During this three-session workshop, your YPE team will learn how to develop logic models and theories of change and how to create evaluation questions.  In between the three real-time online sessions you will have the opportunity to try out some activities and share your learnings, thoughts, comments and questions in our online workspace.

Specifics: This workshop includes two one-hour real-time classroom sessions, two hours of online consultation and unlimited peer-to-peer support.  Required text for this course is
Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, chapter 5. Click here to purchase the required reading.

Recommendations: It is recommended that you engage your entire YPE team in this workshop.

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Developing Interview Skills (5 instructional hours)

A youth-led interview of an adult is powerful because the relationship between them can be radically transformed through the interview process. Young people rarely have the opportunity to perform as “question askers”; instead, they are relegated to answering the questions of adults. When youth become the interviewers, adults often have a very different experience of youth and their capabilities. From this new perspective, youth often experience both themselves and the adults they are interviewing very differently.  This three-session non profit youth evaluation training workshop will engage your YPE team in active hands-on activities that will support you to create and conduct quality interviews.  In between the three real-time online sessions you will have the opportunity to try out some activities and share your learnings, thoughts, comments and questions in our online workspace.

Specifics: This workshop includes three one-hour real-time classroom sessions, two hours of online consultation, and unlimited peer-to-peer support.   Required text for this course is Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, chapter 6. Click here to purchase the required reading.

Recommendations: It is recommended that you engage your entire YPE team in this workshop.

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Becoming Effective and Creative Focus Group Facilitators (5 instructional hours)

Conducting focus groups is a terrific method for gathering data because you can be very creative and support participants to “think outside of the box.” Focus groups are especially valuable when trying to understand complex issues and develop recommendations for change. This three-session non profit youth evaluation training workshop will engage your YPE team in active hands-on activities that will support you to create and conduct quality focus groups.  In between the three real-time online sessions you will have the opportunity to try out some activities and share your learnings, thoughts, comments and questions in our online workspace.

Specifics: This workshop includes three one-hour real-time classroom session, two hours of online consultation and unlimited peer-to-peer support.  Required text for this course is Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, chapter 7. Click here to purchase the required reading.

Recommendations: It is recommended that you engage your entire YPE team in this workshop.

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Developing Surveys (6 instructional hours)

Surveys are one of the most misunderstood data collection methods. Everyone hates them, but they are used more than any other method because they are “easy” to create—or so everyone thinks! In my experience, surveys are one of the most difficult evaluation methods. They are hard to create because the designer has to develop questions and answers (or the response categories) and write both in a language that is understandable to the audience.  This three-session workshop will engage your YPE team in active hands-on activities that will support you to create quality surveys.  In between the three real-time online sessions you will have the opportunity to try out some activities and share your learnings, thoughts, comments and questions in our online workspace.

Specifics: This workshop includes three one-hour real-time classroom sessions, three hours of one-line consultation and unlimited peer-to-peer support.   Required text for this course is Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, chapter 8.  Click here to purchase the required reading.

Recommendations: It is recommended that you engage your entire YPE team in this non profit youth evaluation training workshop.

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Using Journaling, Blogs, Wikis, Facebook In Evaluation (6 instructional hours)

Almost every youth program I know has used journal writing activities to help document their practices with young people. While journals are fantastic sources of data and often support staff members to better understand the growth of individual young people, they are rarely analyzed and, therefore, often useless for overall program evaluation. This three-session workshop provides helpful tips for how to use journal writing, scrapbooking, blogs, wikis, etc. to collect evaluation data.  In between the three real-time online sessions you will have the opportunity to try out some activities and share your learnings, thoughts, comments and questions in our online workspace.

Specifics: This non profit youth evaluation training workshop includes three one-hour real-time classroom sessions, three hours of online consultation, and unlimited peer-to-peer support. Required text for this course is Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, chapter 10.  Click here to purchase the required reading.

Recommendations: It is recommended that you engage your entire YPE team in this workshop.

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Using Performance, Video, and Photos in Evaluation (6 instructional hours)

With performance, you never really know what is going to happen. Performance provides a different venue for communication, one that is not so “reality based.” While performing, people end up sharing all types of information. There are some things that we can say during play that we just cannot in real life. This three-session workshop will engage your YPE team in active hands-on activities that will support you to create and use performance, video, and photos in your evaluation process.  In between the three real-time online sessions you will have the opportunity to try out some activities and share your learnings, thoughts, comments and questions in our online workspace.

Specifics: This non profit youth evaluation training workshop includes three one-hour real-time classroom sessions, 3 hours of one-to-one online consultation and unlimited peer-to-peer support. Required text for this course is Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, chapter nine. Click here to purchase the required reading.

Recommendations: It is recommended that you engage your entire YPE team in this workshop.

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Approaching Data Analysis and Report Writing Creatively (8 instructional hours)

At this point in your YPE project, you and your team have piles of data—thousands of words and numbers–that have been systematically collected and that describe your particular program and its outcomes for young people. Now what? This workshop provides examples of some of the most creative and performatory strategies used to help a YPE team make those piles of paper smaller and produce meaning from the information in them.

This five-session non profit youth evaluation training workshop will engage your YPE team in active hands-on activities that will support you to create high quality and engaging reports (online, video, paper, power point, etc).  In between the five real-time online sessions you will have the opportunity to try out some activities and share your learnings, thoughts, comments and questions in our online workspace.

Specifics: This workshop includes five one-hour real-time classroom sessions, three hours of one-to-one online consultation, and unlimited peer-to-peer support.   Required text for this course is Youth Participatory Evaluation: Strategies for engaging young people, Chapter 11. Click here to purchase the required reading.

Recommendations: It is recommended that you engage your entire YPE team in this workshop.

Please contact us for more information on class schedule and pricing
 
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