The Impact of YouthREX: Highlights From an External Evaluation by The Evaluation Network (2024)
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HERE’S HOW THE AUTHORS DESCRIBE THIS REPORT:
This highlight report is taken from the Impact Evaluation Report by The Evidence Network (TEN) that was submitted in January 2024 to YouthREX’s primary funder.
York University engaged TEN in the Fall of 2023 to conduct an external evaluation of the impact of YouthREX on Ontario’s youth support ecosystem and the participating individuals and organizations.
The evaluation by TEN used a theory-based approach to determine the degree to which youth workers and youth-serving organizations have made use of – and been impacted by – YouthREX’s resources, programs, and services. This approach relies on an understanding of how a given intervention is expected to work by identifying the various steps in the causal chain – from the intervention activities to the desired outcomes and impacts.
The evaluation was guided by YouthREX’s Theory of Change and focused on the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes resulting from the support, resources, and platforms provided by YouthREX.
The methodology relied on participants’ judgment to determine the effect of YouthREX’s activities on their knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviours by asking standardized questions designed to address a single indicator at a time.
The evaluation included an online survey distributed to the YouthREX community, of which 1,253 individuals responded and 45 one-on-one semi-structured interviews with representatives from youth-serving organizations that had engaged with YouthREX on Customized Evaluation Supports (CES) took place. The interviews explored the experience and impacts of the supports provided by YouthREX, ways and reasons for incorporating (or not) the learnings into their operations, value-added to their organization from having engaged with YouthREX, and opportunities for improvement for YouthREX.
Youth Research & Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX). (2024). The Impact of YouthREX: Highlights From an External Evaluation by The Evaluation Network (2024).
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