| Session Title: Even Teenagers Value Evaluation!: How Service Recipients Use Outcome and Evaluation Data at the Latin-American Youth Center |
| Expert Lecture Session 314 to be held in Avila A on Thursday, Nov 3, 11:40 AM to 12:25 PM |
| Sponsored by the Evaluation Use TIG and the Human Services Evaluation TIG |
| Chair(s): |
| Isaac Castillo, Latin American Youth Center, isaac@layc-dc.org |
| Presenter(s): |
| Isaac Castillo, Latin American Youth Center, isaac@layc-dc.org |
| Abstract: The Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) is a multi-service nonprofit in Washington, DC that evaluates each of its 71 programs internally. Results from these evaluations have been used to improve programming for years. More recently, LAYC has worked with high-risk and high-need service recipients to empower them in the use of the evaluation data in their daily lives. These youth and young adults share personal level outcomes (and in some instances program level outcomes) with judges, probation officers, and teachers to demonstrate how they have turned their lives around. This session will share LAYC's internal evaluation work, how the outcomes are shared with service recipients, and how youth and young adults use this information to prove to others (and themselves) that they are improving their lives. |