Contact information:
310 8th Street, Ste. 201
Oakland, CA 94607
Website:
www.acmhs.org
Mission/Goals: AYPAL aims to change the relationship of power
between young people and policy makers through youth-identified and
youth-run direct action organizing and arts activist campaigns for school
reform and community improvement. AYPAL’s foundation rests on six
neighborhood and ethnic community based Youth Leadership Organizations (YLOs)
in Oakland. These self-directed youth activist groups, each with 30-45
members, identify, plan and wage community campaigns to address needs
based on their research and their own perception and analysis. Because of
the YLOs, AYPAL’s youth activism is based not solely on an elite team of
highly trained and vocal youth leaders, but also on a much larger number
of general YLO members. AYPAL is a community collaborative made up of six
agencies serving Asian and Pacific Islander youth in Oakland. Each agency
sponsors one of the six YLOs.
Source(s): www.ofcy.org;
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Type of Evaluation: Outcomes
Monitoring.
Objective: The Oakland Fund for Children and Youth (OFCY)
evaluation was designed to assess service provision and the effects of
services provided by organizations that received grants from OFCY. Please
note that the following summary focuses on evaluation findings regarding
the effects on children, rather than on service provision.
Impact/Outcomes: Youth-reported satisfaction with services
increased between fall 2003 and spring 2004 (90.2% versus 93.0%), while
parent satisfaction declined slightly (86.5% versus 85.3%). The percentage
of youth and parents reporting improvement across the seven developmental
assets increased between the fall
and spring, but the percentages for program
staff declined slightly (73.3% to 81.5% in the
fall versus spring for youth reports, 69.8% to
79.4% for parents, and 80.3% to 79.9% for
staff). Similarly, the percentage of youth reporting improvements across
the ten areas of attitudes, skills, knowledge, and behaviors increased,
but the percentages decreased slightly for parent and staff ratings (80.5%
and 87.7% for youth reports, 72.0% to 81.9% for parent reports, and 91.4%
to 92.1% for staff reports). Staff ratings of children's expectations of
themselves declined (82.6% to 76.2%) as did their ratings of children's
participation in home, school, and community (81.3% to 80.5%).
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