Our Results
We have developed a significant track record of providing high quality services and making a distinctive impact on the lives of the individual youth and families we serve; the schools and communities where we have concentrated our services; and the child welfare, education and family support systems with which we interface.
Business Plan
Our 2005-2009 business plan reflects our desire to go deeper and focus on a more lasting impact through program enhancements and by increasing our capacity to measure outcomes. While, previously, it was hard for us to provide more than anecdotal evidence of the outcomes of our programs, with the steady development of a comprehensive Quality Improvement Department over the past few years, we now gather data in a more systematic manner. Our unified outcomes measurement system enables us to evaluate program effectiveness and impact on individual participants. Programs develop and track targeted, program-specific outcomes to which they hold themselves accountable, which feed into the four broader agency outcomes that comprise our Theory of Change. We are currently implementing Social Solutions’ Efforts to Outcomes (ETO), an agency-wide database and performance tracking system, which will allow us to more effectively capture and communicate the results of our work.
Youth Development Outcomes
In our work, we are trying to achieve the following results for the young people we help:
Safety
Participants are emotionally and physically safe from abuse, neglect and maltreatment and/or possess the skills and abilities to enhance the safety and security in their lives.Skills/Competency
Participants achieve social, emotional, academic, vocational and independent living competencies.Self-Sufficiency
Participants achieve self-sufficiency as developmentally appropriate.Permanent Connections
Participants build strong connections to caregivers and community resources and/or live in nurturing families/caretaking environments that support their developmental needs.
Numbers and Statistics
826 young people were able to earn a high school diploma or GED through one of our Multiple Pathways to Graduation Programs during the 2006-07 school year.
98% of the children served in our Preventive Programs were able to avoid entering foster care placement during the 2006-07 program year.
66% of college students who participated in our Bronx LifeLink college retention program during the 2006-2007 academic year returned to school the following semester.
