1. Data-Driven Service Delivery: Using Population and Coalition Data to Reengage Opportunity Youth in Career and Educational Pathways.
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Mody, Elizabeth H., Wang, Chuyuan, Hoyt, James, and Ferguson, Kristin M.
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COALITIONS ,EMPLOYMENT ,LABOR mobility ,NONPROFIT organizations ,RESEARCH funding ,STATISTICAL hypothesis testing ,VOCATIONAL guidance ,COMMUNITY services ,DATA analysis software ,MANN Whitney U Test ,ADULTS - Abstract
Opportunity youth, 16- to 24-year-olds who are neither in school nor working, are a population that is difficult to engage and retain in services. Population-level data and local data from coalitions play a critical role in helping human service organizations effectively plan, deliver and evaluate their programs. This case study of the Opportunities for Youth Coalition illustrates how a network of youth-serving organizations have been coordinating their service planning, delivery and evaluation since 2016 using annual data from both the American Community Survey (ACS) and local coalition as well as a collective impact approach. The authors propose strategies for administrators to replicate these data-driven, service-delivery approaches in other geographic areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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