In 2023, over a five-month project period the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB), Division of Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY), and the Runaway and Homeless Youth Training, Technical Assistance, and Capacity Building Center (RHYTTAC) worked closely with five participating FYSB RHY grantees to collaboratively identify and align program measures with program activities and focused on demonstrating improvements against FYSB’s RHY Performance Standards for youth experiencing homelessness. 

The FYSB RHYTTAC Youth Outcomes Learning Project pilot worked with the selected small group of diverse RHY grantees to increase their capacity to: (1) refine their existing logic models; (2) identify and align the inputs, activities, and outputs of their RHY programs to outcomes of interest; and (3) define and measure each program’s outcomes and improve outcomes measurement for the four outcome domains of FYSB’s RHY Performance Standards

The Youth Outcomes Learning Project pilot was an ambitious undertaking and generated critical insights for both the RHYTTAC project team and the grantees and their young adult representatives who participated. There are incredible opportunities to continue this work, including engaging new grantees in the activities we designed and executed in this pilot, extending our initial work with this same group to more, as well as expanding on the learnings of the group to a larger RHY audience. Building capacity among grantees to thoughtfully design their logic models, to strategically link their program’s activities to a set of defined outputs and outcomes, to improve their ability to collect data and transform that data into evidence, and to meaningfully use that evidence to drive quality improvement are all fundamental components to strengthening RHY programs that enhance the wellbeing of the young people they serve.  

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