OYF Annual Collaborative Partner Youth Data Reporting (CPYDR)

Annual OYF Self-Assessment: this survey asks questions about the characteristics of the collaborative, the collaboratives capacity in 4 domains, the collaborative’s impact on 7 kinds of systems change, and their work in 3 core values areas that are essential to this work. Collaboratives can track their progress over time, and compare themselves to peers.

More detail on each of these assessment and data tools follows.

1. OYF Common Measures of youth outcomes

Opportunity Youth have historically been difficult to count, as they are defined as a group which does not appear in either of two data sets – those in an educational program and those not working. With the OYF Common Measures, however, we can annually measure, in a uniform way across all OYF collaboratives, for the unique geographic area of a OYF collaborative, four kinds of OY disconnection.

The four measures are:

• Overall community disconnection rate: The rate of young people disconnected from both work and school (i.e., opportunity youth).

And three additional rates, that break down the overall community disconnection rate, into segments by educational attainment:

• High school disconnection rate: The rate of young people without a high school diploma/GED and not working who are disconnected from high school.
• Postsecondary disconnection rate: The rate of young people with a high school diploma/GED but without a postsecondary credential, who are disconnected from postsecondary education and not working.
• Workforce disconnection rate: The rate of young people with a postsecondary credential, but not enrolled in postsecondary, who are disconnected from the workforce.
  
  One important attribute of the Common Measures data is that it is disaggregated by various demographic variables, such as race, gender, income, etc. We are also able to disaggregate it by other OY-pertinent variable such as having a child in the home, nativity, and more. The Forum for Community Solutions provides the Common Measures detail to each OYF member as the underlying data becomes available as a benefit of network membership, typically annually, in partnership with our assessment provider Equal Measure.
  
  Each community receives a detailed data report, which it can use to track progress, set future goals, understand which parts of the OY population are increasing, understand OY characteristics to inform program-level design, and much more.
  More on the Common Measures can be found here.