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YOUTH PROGRAM QUALITY ASSESSMENT Boys & Girls Clubs of Skagit County staff travel to Vancouver, WA to meet with other Club professionals with the goal of strengthening Club Programs. by Heather Greenlaw, Executive Assistant & Program Quality Coordinator, BGCSC In mid-November, I traveled south with several of our Club Staff to attend training in Youth Program Quality Assessment (YPQA). This training marks the beginning of my role as Program Quality Coordinator for our organization, and is part of one of our priority goals from our new strategic plan, Opportunity 2021: Improve Program Quality. Based on data that we have collected, we are confident that our programs are generally delivered at a high level. There is, however, always room to improve our practices and ensure that we are providing our members with the best club experience possible. Improve Assess The tools developed by the Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality have been used in our 21st Century Learning Centers since 2014, and we are expanding this to include all of our traditional Club sites as well starting in January 2019. Improving our program quality is a continuous cycle of assess » plan » improve. Programs are observed and evaluated, a plan is devised for how to improve based on the scores, and then the changes are implemented in our clubs based on those plans. Once the improvement plan is enacted, a new assessment starts and the cycle begins anew. Plan ASSESS The assessment portion of YPQA is probably the most time intensive portion of the process, and consists of two components: a self-assessment conducted through observations and reflections by the program staff themselves, and an external assessment conducted by someone outside of the program. The observation notes are then used to determine scores for 63 different components of program quality - these components range from is the space a comfortable temperature, to do staff encourage youth to try new skills, to are there mentoring opportunities. PLAN Planning for improvement uses the scores, from both the self-assessment and the external assessment to determine which areas need to be improved, and devising a strategy to effect changes to program quality in our clubs. IMPROVE Once the areas for improvement have been identified and a strategy in place, the club staff can then undertake the work of putting the plan into action: targeted trainings, staff coaching, discussions of best practices, which are all used to make adjustments to how our staff deliver programs to our members. So, what is my role in all of this, you might ask. As a member of the Mission Support Team, I am uniquely positioned to have both an understanding of all of our clubs with their idiosyncrasies, but also a detached view of programs since I am not on the front lines day in and day out. I have extensive training and experience in education and with the emphasis on Improving Program Quality that came out of the Strategic Plan work last year, it made sense for the organization to utilize my background and expertise in working towards that goal. While the 21st Century Learning Centers already have External Evaluators as part of their grants, our traditional Club sites do not. As Program Quality Coordinator, I am excited to fill that role for our clubs by observing programs, providing scoring data, and supporting our Club Directors and Program Staff while they work to improve the quality of the programs they deliver to our Members. 38
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