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Engaging Youth in Making Communities
Better Places for Young People
University of California, Davis
California Communities Program

David Campbell
Nancy Erbstein
Melanie Moore Kubo
James Fabionar
Whitney Wilcox
Lisceth Cruz Carrasco

Community Development Society Conference
David Campbell UC Davis
Memphis, TN July 27, 2009

Overview
 Describe the REACH Initiative
 Characterize the Setting & Stakes
 Ask: Why engage youth in
community change?
 Share key findings
 Introduce Healthy Youth/Healthy
Regions research project


REACH Initiative - Goal and Timeline
 Sierra Health Foundation
 $5 million to grantees in 7communities
in the Sacramento region.
 Three-year grant (2007-2010).
 Goal:
Youth and adults working together in
communities to increase supports and
opportunities for all youth.


REACH Initiative - Grantees
Community Grantee/Host Agency
El Dorado Hills Vision Coalition of El Dorado Hills
Galt Galt Joint Union High School District
Meadowview Sacramento Area Congregations Together
(ACT)
Rancho Cordova Cordova Community Collaborative

South Sacramento Mutual Housing Association
Sacramento
West CommuniCare Health Center of West
Sacramento Sacramento
Woodland Yolo Family Resource Center


SETTING AND STAKES


Education Funding
California drops from 21st to
35th in the country in per-
21st student funding…

35th

1978 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2008

Education Funding
( om
C pared to other states)

Source: Sacramento ACT

Incarceration Rate

… Per Capita Incarceration 689
Increases 5 times

137

1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2006 2008

California per Capita Incarceration Rate
( 100,000 residents)
per

Source: Sacramento ACT

Population Size 2005

1,600,000

1,400,000

1,200,000

1,000,000
Population

800,000

600,000

400,000

200,000

0
Amador ElDorado Nevada Placer Sacramento Solano Sutter Yolo Yuba

Center for Regional Change UC Davis

Population in Poverty, 2003

18

16

14
Percent of Individuals Living Below Poverty Level

12

10

8

6

4

2

0


Race Distribution

100%

90%

80%

70%

HispPct
60%
Percent per Category

AsianPIPct
50% AIPct
BlkPct
40%
WhtPct

30%

20%

10%

0%


Median 100,000
90,000
Incomes in Zip 80,000
Code Areas 70,000
60,000
Served by 50,000
40,000
REACH 30,000
20,000
10,000
0
EDH GALT MDV RC SSAC WSAC WOOD


35
Percent of 30
Families 25
Below Poverty 20
in Zip Code 15
Areas Served 10
by REACH 5
0
EDH GALT MDV RC SSAC WSAC WOOD


Percentage of 100

Four
Racial/Ethnic 50

Groups in
0
Local Public EDH GALT MDV RC SSAC WSAC WOOD

Schools White 84
4
46
46
5
32
50
23
14
36
39
40
36
56
Latino
African-American 1 2 24 16 15 6 1
Asian- American 3 2 33 6 30 9 4


REACH Goal
 Youth and adults working together in
communities to increase supports and
opportunities for all youth.


What are some reasons we
might want to engage youth in a
community change effort??
What can they bring that is
unique and valuable??


Some Rationales for Engaging Youth in Change

 To make a compelling case for investment to key
decision-makers.
 To tap their labor and energy to accomplish specific
projects.
 To model good youth development practice and offer
some direct training to specific youth.
 To tap critical knowledge and insights that contribute to
community strategy development.
 To mobilize their peers to promote important changes in
youth practice.
 To create a strategic constituency that can organize to
change adult practice/policy. UC Davis
David Campbell

REACH Theory of Change
and our Evaluation Approach


Community Gambone Model Development
Action Framework for Youth

E

C

Improve Developmental
Outcomes
B• Learning to be productive
• Learning to connect
• Learning to navigate
D

Improve Long-Term
Outcomes in Adulthood
A
• Economic self-sufficiency
• Healthy family and social
relationships
• Community involvement

Citation: Gambone, M.A., Klein, A.M. & Connell, J.P. (2002). Finding out What Matters for Youth; Testing Key Links in a Community Action Framework for Youth Development. Philadelphia:
Youth Development Strategies, Inc., and Institute for Research and Reform in Education. c 2002 by Youth Development Strategies, Inc. and the Institute for Research and Reform in
Education

Community Action Framework for Youth Development
© Connell & Gambone 1998

Build Community
Capacity and Conditions Improve Youth
For Change (E) Developmental
Outcomes (B)

Increase Supports
& Opportunities for
Youth (C)

Implement Community Improve Long-
Strategies to Enhance Term Outcomes
Supports & Opportunities In Adulthood (A)
For Youth (D)

© Youth Development Strategies, Inc. David Campbell UC Davis

Evaluation Design - Key Questions
 Does REACH:
 nurture viable coalitions and enhance community
capacity to support youth development?

 promote youth engagement as a strategy to enhance
youth development outcomes?

 increase meaningful supports and opportunities for
youth in local communities?

 enhance youth development outcomes?

 suggest lessons for foundation practice and the broader
field of community and youth development?

The REACH Evaluation - Methods and Data

 Methods
 Qualitative design: semi-structured interviews, field
observation, and review of key documents.

 Data Points
 Over a two-year period.
 220 semi-structured interviews: 47 youth/173 adults
 227 field observations
 Review of REACH documents and literature


Key Preliminary Finding

 No clear rationale articulating the link
between youth engagement and
community change.
 The Gambone framework focuses on
increasing/enhancing key developmental
supports and opportunities for youth.

 It does not speak to the notion of youth as
mechanisms for community change.

Central Tension

 Running a youth program versus focusing
on a community change agenda.

 Youth programs
 Potential to divert resources from more direct
actions of change.

 Pursuing a change agenda
 Require structures to work with youth “where they
are.”

3 General Approaches Adults Use to
Engage Youth
 Focus on deep relationships with youth.
 Develop short-term, action oriented
leadership and civic opportunities for
youth.
 Pursue community change agenda and
engage youth to advance the plan.


EDH GALT MDV SSAC RC WSAC WOD

Community X X X X X X
service
Service learning X X X

Youth media and X X
public art
Youth X X X X X
philanthropy
Youth-led X X
research
Youth civic X X X X
engagement
Youth organizing X X

Youth in X X
governance David Campbell UC Davis

Deeper Trouble for Coalitions
 Creating a strategic focus (r.t. doing lots of
good things without clear goal)
 Specific outcome target
 Key partners at table
 Rationale for youth engagement
 Small set of headline indicators to track


Examples of strategic focus
 Reducing drug and alcohol abuse
 Decreasing high school dropout
rate/increasing college matriculation rate
 Reducing number of 18-24 year olds that
are out-of-school and out-of-work


Organizational Form Matters
 If goal is promoting community scale
change, avoid funding orgs that run
programs
 Instead, fund existing or start-up
collaborative, coalition, or community
organizing group


Next Steps
 Healthy Youth, Healthy Regions Study
 See: http://regionalchange.ucdavis.edu/

 Spatial data mapping
 Institutional network analysis

 Youth voices for change


For More Information
 REACH evaluation final report Nov. 2010

For information regarding the REACH initiative, visit:
www.reachyouthprogram.org
www.sierrahealth.org

To view the REACH Interim Evaluation Report, visit:
www.ccp.ucdavis.edu


How might you change your
current practices to incorporate
youth engagement??


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