From soft skills to hard data measuring youth program outcomes

For each tool, it provides sample items and crucial information about usability, cost, and evidence of reliability and validity.

Please provide us with your email address to download this resource. Please Wait. January 22, Everyone who runs a youth program believes in their hearts that their program helps kids — but in their heads, they know they need convincing data to prove it. Previous Moving the Needle on "Moving the Needle".

Next Ready by 21 State Policy Survey Direct link. Everyone who runs a youth program believes in their hearts that their program helps kids, but in their heads, they know they need convincing data to prove it. This guide--updated from is here to help them get the data they need. The guide addresses a common problem throughout the youth field: Out-of-school time OST programs can help youth develop skills and attributes they need to be ready for college, work, and life--skills and attributes like communications, relationships and collaboration, critical thinking and decision making, and initiative and self-direction.

Few OST programs have the tools to effectively measure those outcomes. Finding the right one can be daunting.