Pilot
Interaction date
Activity type
Pilot: 1 on 1
- Quick intros
- Jasline and Vannessa will be primary CQI team
- Craig may join on Monthlies
- Review Section C of the CQI template (items to work on in early calls)
- Define the problem (continued from kickoff)
- For context, current status of programming
- 3rd cycle, have been providing services since February
- Don’t have as many students; retention is good though
- LoveNotes curriculum
- Online because of COVID. Once COVID is over, both online and in-person
- Recruitment process
- Word-of-mouth recruitment primarily.
- Cross-enroll through their organization
- Word-of-mouth recruitment primarily.
- Some schools only have 35% enrollment. Enrollment rates are low in the state.
- A lot of churches are closed as well, but slowly re-opening. Most running with Zoom.
- Eventually churches will provide good recruitment rate (when COVID ends)
- 3rd cycle, have been providing services since February
- Discuss the challenge: How to effectively recruit youth, given the expected referral partners are not currently an option. Is this an accurate description? Other points from your kickoff activity to get more information on:
- Bringing a youth perspective to recruiting/programming; In-school
- Finished first group and received input. More participation and advice from this group. Alumni
- Focus groups with alumni basically, social media engagement advice
- Kids on Zoom all-day, may not want to go back into virtual sessions again. They claim once they have the kids though, they don’t want to leave (good retention).
- Challenges of recruiting through parents
- Always been a challenge to recruit; even harder now since most don’t have multiple computers
- Possible idea: Creating videos for parents instead of live sessions
- How do you recruit parents you don’t see?
- Possible idea: Creating videos for parents instead of live sessions
- Wants to hear to what other groups are doing to resolve this issue.
- Always been a challenge to recruit; even harder now since most don’t have multiple computers
- Marketing and Messaging is what this boils down to
- Having to evolve to new online scenarios
- Bringing a youth perspective to recruiting/programming; In-school
- For context, current status of programming
- Next steps: set an improvement goal
- Within 90 days, recruit 60 youth to the program
- Current recruitment is between 7-11 youth
- Within 90 days, recruit 60 youth to the program
- Potential work between calls: empathy interviews
Grantee(s)
Another Choice, Another Chance (ACAC)
Staff
Annie Buonaspina
Rob Nutt