Comprehensive Data System: A program perspective

COMPREHENSIVE DATA SYSTEM: A PROGRAM PERSPECTIVE

Presented by Mila YochumOctober 27, 2012

NATThe Role of Out-of-School Time Programs

Provide a safe space for youth to meet their physical and social needs and to build knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in adolescence and adulthood

• Preventative outcomes – Preventing young people from engaging in destructive behavior (violence, drug and alcohol abuse, early pregnancy, etc.)

• Achievement outcomes – What we want young people to achieve, for example, getting a job or graduating from high school or college.

• Developmental outcomes – The knowledge, skills, behavior, and personal attributes that youth need to be successful and healthy

NATThe Value of Data

• Measure Outcomes

• Program Quality and Decision Making

• History of participation and long term study and measure of outcomes

NATNational Trends in City Wide Systems

• Collaboration of Diverse of Stakeholders

• Leverage Greater Funding

• Efficient use of Resources

• Increased training and development of OST practitioners

• Data-sharing

• Consistent evaluation, assessment and quality standard

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Out of School Time in Pittsburgh

• ~ 50,000 youth under 18 years of age (US Census, 2010)

• 2012-2013, 60 partners formal partnership with Pittsburgh Public Schools

• 2005, 302 OST programs existed in Pittsburgh 1

• 2010, 20% of OST programs collected any data 2

• 2010, creation of APOST , the intermediary

• Model testing in the Hill District

1. http://afterschoolpgh.org/assets/AfterschoolinPittsburghAug06.pdf2. Luk, Vivien. (2010, October). Building Capacity for Data-Driven Program Design. Presented at Grantmakers for Education Annual

Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. A Data Collection and Program Evaluation Framework for After School Programs. (2010, April 16) App

http://wikitravel.org/en/Pittsburgh

NATInterviews and Experience

• Forbes Fund and Consultant

• Sarah Heinz House

• Pittsburgh Project

• The Hill Zone

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2009/01/western_middle_schooler_will_m.html

NATPittsburgh Barriers to City-Wide Systems

Data collection largely focused on meeting contracting agencies’ reporting requirements, the nonprofits struggled to use data to inform management decisions and programming. Further, they tended to lack expertise to conduct data collection and analysis in-house and lacked effective tools and systems for measuring progress.1

• Antiquated IT structure at the School District

• Leadership

• Organizational Capacity

• Financial Sustainability

http://www.ehow.com/way_5887000_time-management-skills-middle-schooler.html

NATNext Steps

• Additional research from program teams in city-wide systems

• Complete paper for ASM Level 2

• Participate in APOST in some capacity to develop the local

http://www.lifepointowasso.com/next-steps