Operational Excellence: SDM Enhancements for Results 2011 National Conference Dallas, Texas June

Purpose of today’s session Identify themes from network experience and data, child safety data and youth mentoring research that have implications for service delivery Share and discuss both the content and process for SDM revision

Lifecycle of an evidence-based practice 2011 National Conference Dallas, Texas Evidence of effectiveness, feasibility, replicability, scalability Promising practice Evidence of effectiveness Mentoring literature Agency practice Youth development lit. Child safety data Agency practice Network data Agency practice Child protection lit. Trends and promising practices are identified Promising practices are tested Tested and revised practices are shared or rolled out to the network Standards SDM Resources, tools, opportunities

Program enhancement themes Critical practices can help enhance our ability to protect children from harm Parents/guardians are important partners in the process of making and supporting a match Professionally supporting our matches through consistent, high- quality match support is a key to longer, stronger, safer matches An effective school- or site-based program may be more similar to community-based mentoring than previously thought Data, as collected in the SoR and YOS, can be useful as diagnostic tools, as well as outcomes measurement Appropriate orientation and training of volunteer, parent and youth are critical to a successful, safe match.

These themes can inform our model across all functional areas Program Implications Build stronger partnerships with schools (clear roles, shared results) Recruit for minimum 12 month commitment and expectation of multi-year relationship (in school- or site-based programs, too!) Carefully screen, assess, and train Bigs to promote child safety Provide thorough orientation to parents and youth to promote child safety Engage parents in the matching process Reinforce and plan for minimum 12 month involvement Provide frequent, regular contacts with all participants Make the most of match support contacts - provide individual opportunity to listen, support, and coach (for school-based, make contacts outside of program time) and use info gathered to assess match needs Administer –and use– the SoR and YOS 2011 National Conference Dallas, Texas Partnership, community engagement & recruitment Enrollment & matchingMatch support

Proposed next steps for SDM Finalize and collect “inputs” for SDM revisions: -Standards: rationale, stakeholder input, and resulting vote -Existing data sources: child safety research, program practices survey, mentoring literature -Forthcoming data: ESBM pilot, new mentoring literature (meta- analysis) Revise SBM and CBM descriptions, tools, supporting forms, etc. Incorporate revised SDM into “next gen” AIM Roll out revised SDM 2011 National Conference Dallas, Texas