These helpful resources are free to use and available for any interested youth programs. They have been developed by partners across the country. If you have a favorite resource to share, email Celeste.
Planning
Evaluation planning tools to come…
Needs Assessments and Collecting Feedback
Our favorite resource for creatively soliciting feedback from stakeholders comes from Public Profit. Their Creative Ways to Solicit Feedback guide has 15 fun, active ways to get feedback from partners (download it at their website). Don’t miss the companion handout for soliciting feedback from youth.
Program Quality
For more than a decade, OCF and Ford have partnered to fund a program quality initiative that has used resources from the Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality. After a decade using the Oregon Youth Program Quality Assessment, the Initiative now uses the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Youth Program Quality Assessment. Here is the website where you can download the assessment instrument from the Weikart Center.
Youth participation in evaluation
From Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to Zeldin’s guide on youth as evaluation partners, there is a lot of information about how to involved youth in planning and implementing a program evaluation.
Helpful guides
Our favorite resources