STYA Success and Sustainability STYA Provider Days September 22 & 23, 2016

America After 3 PM Special Report: Afterschool in Communities of Concentrated Poverty http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/AA3PM/Concentrated_Poverty.pdf

STYA Develop, enhance or expand programs for youth ages 9 – 12 1a: Individual, small group and/or team mentoring 1b: Adult-supervised activities 2: Adult-led small group sessions 3: Parenting education

STYA Grantees University of Rochester Center for School Safety Cornell University Cornell Cooperative Extension - NYC

Reach & Scope: Sept 1, 2013 – Feb 29, 2016 17 (16) STYA Providers 6784 Youth Participants 2209 Adult Participants 155,658 Program Hours

Activities: Sept 1, 2013 – Feb 29, 2016 Component 1A: Component 1B: # of Participants Hours Component 1A: 1508 10585.26 Component 1B: 4149 111869.44 Component 2: 3887 31255.85 Component 3: 2188 1947.7

Total Youth: 6784 Total Adults: 2209

Stories “We decided to pair movies with group conversations and discuss the parallel of television/movies and real life.” “We were elated that in our first culminating event, her aunt came to watch her present and she was able to stand in front of the classroom and present her artwork.” “A leader from a local Girl Scout organization came in weekly to provide the youth with lessons on Leadership, Self Esteem, Volunteer work and a variety of other character development assets.”

Forthcoming Data Provider-specific reports including: Overall reach, trends over time Component-specific summaries Participant demographic summaries Youth Survey: Trends over time Other data?

Thinking About Sustainability When you think about sustainability in your work, what are you thinking of?

Defining Sustainability The ability to continue services after a funding period is over and to ensure that the organization becomes a permanent part of community resources (Center of Substance Abuse Treatment, 2008) Answering the question: “How do I build a stable base of support to sustain my work over time?” Institutionalization: The active process of developing practices, relationships, and procedures that become a lasting part of the community (Community Toolbox)

What do you want to sustain?

Key Questions What is the nature of our initiative (or organization)? What are the goals of our initiative? What has our initiative done? What publicity has our initiative received? How is our initiative structured and governed? Does our initiative have sufficient staffing? Is our budget sufficient to cover expected costs now and in the future? What are some obstacles we may encounter? And how do we get around them? Community Toolbox

https://sustaintool.org/understand

Demonstrate Success Document your achievements Share your successes Own agency Public and community stakeholders Community at large

Create and Expand Partnerships Schools Community Services/partners Local government Business Other? Resource: http://www.actforyouth.net/youth_development/co mmunities/partners/

Increase Visibility Develop a ‘marketing strategy’ http://ctb.ku.edu/en/implement-social-marketing- effort#node_toolkits_full_group_outline Discovering the Activation Point http://www.activationpoint.org/ Smart Chart http://www.smartchart.org/content/smart_chart_3_ 0.pdf

Managing Resources Diversify funding Local Private Fee-for-service Joint Ventures (Partners)

Resources Community Tool Box: Sustainability Toolkit http://ctb.ku.edu/en/writing-grant- application#node_toolkits_full_group_out line NYS Network Youth Success http://networkforyouthsuccess.org/fundi ng-and-sustainability/