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Website: leadershipexcellence.org/

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Mission/Goals: Leadership Excellence provides year-round youth leadership development programs for African American children in low-income neighborhoods. Components focus on cultural and self awareness, social awareness, civic action and community organizing, and global awareness education. The program also aims for community and social change.

Source(s): www.ofcy.org

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: Child-reported satisfaction with services declined between fall 2003 and spring 2004 (93.1% versus 87.3%), while parent satisfaction increased very slightly (94.9% versus 95.8%). The percentage of children reporting improvements across the seven developmental assets also decreased between the fall and spring (71.4% and 59.7%), but the percentages increased slightly for parent ratings (84.5% to 88.1%). Program staff feedback was assessed only in the spring; staff reported improvement across the developmental assets for
nearly nine out of ten children (89.3%). The percentage of children reporting improvements across the 12 areas of attitudes, skills, knowledge, and behaviors decreased (76.9% to 63.2%), but the percentages increased for parent ratings (88.8% to 97.2%). Staff reported improvement across the 12 areas for the majority of children (81.9%); staff also reported that three out of four children had appropriate expectations of themselves (75.0%) and that 86.1% of children participated in home, school, and community.