Welcome! We will begin our webinar at the top of the hour

Welcome!• We will begin our webinar at the top of the hour

• Please have your grant data collection and reporting forms available in this ordero Grantee Report Tracking Sheet – Evaluation ID Assignmentso Life Skills Assessment Instructions and Formo Semiannual Grantee Report

• As you log on, do not be surprised if you don’t hear anyone else; participants are placed on mute in order to limit background noise

Youth Advocacy – Local and State Grant Webinar

Youth Advocacy Local and State GrantData Collection and Reporting RequirementsRefresher Training

Your presenters

Sarah Catherine Williams – Child Trends Research Scientist

Coral Edward – National CASA Grants Program Manager

By the end of the webinar, you will be able to:

• Describe the requirements of the Youth Advocacy grant data collection and reporting

• Access the Youth Advocacy grant data collection and reporting forms online

• Be familiar with steps for completing the required forms

Objectives

• Purpose: To increase the number of children ages 7-17 served by volunteers in the court and community beyond prior year’s level and for youth served to improve work and study skills, self care and social support.

• Grant Period: June 1, 2014 – May 31, 2015

• 39 Youth Advocacy new grantees

Youth Advocacy Local and State Grant

Volunteers• Recruited, trained, activated and retained

Youth• Served, improved life skills, success in

school and delinquency involvement

Importance of Reporting

To show outputs and outcomes in relation to:

• State and local program page

• Reporting tools

• 2014 Youth Advocacy (Local and State), Fostering Futures Training and Evidence Based Enhancements Grantee Reporting

Data Collection and Reporting

Questions so far?

•Measures changes in youth life skills over time

•Completed by youth and advocate

•Youth ages 14 and older

•Completed within two months of volunteer assignment to case and at one year or case closure – whichever comes first

•New paper version available online

Youth Life Skills Assessment

• All grantees are required to use the tracking sheet provided by National CASA

•Auto-populated reports correspond directly to the semiannual grantee report

•Does the work for you

•No trying to figure out how to calculate what numbers to report

Grantee Report Tracking Sheet

•New Volunteers: A volunteer who is new to your program, in that they have not completed the recruitment, training, or swearing in process.

•Existing Volunteers: These are your veteran volunteers, who have already served kids in the past, or completed the recruitment, training or swearing in process outside of or before the grant.

“New” vs. “Existing” Volunteers

Ineligible Youth

•If a child/youth is not eligible to be tracked under the grant, they should not be entered into the tracking sheet.

•They may be part of a sibling group that contains children/youth who meet the grant requirements, but if they themselves do not meet the requirements, they should not be tracked.

Updated Tracking Sheet Available

•New/updated version of the tracking sheet available online

•Instructions on how to copy information from one document to another are available online as well

•Example of how to copy information

•Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions or are unclear about any of the grant reporting requirements. We’re here to help!

•Leading up the next reporting cycle, please reach out sooner rather than later if you are having technical issues, or need additional guidance. This will help things go more smoothly for everyone.

Stay in touch!

Reporting period: Due date:

1/1/15 – 5/31/15 July 15, 2015

Entered online athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NCASA_Semiannual_Grantee_Report

Semiannual Grantee Report

Reporting period: Due date:

6/1/14 – 5/31/15 June 30, 2015

Grantee narrative reports are in the same format as our traditional grantee narrative reports and will be emailed to you from our Grants Manager.

Grantee Narrative Report

Coral [email protected], ext. 217

Sarah Catherine [email protected]

Questions?