The State of Opportunity Youth Research
Ken Thompson
The state of OY evaluation and research, 2019.
This Issue Brief describes the work of the OYES (Opportunity Youth Evaluations and Studies) project, an ongoing project looking at five multi-site evaluations of different opportunity youth projects happening across the US. It describes these evaluations and their scopes and research questions, and describes the cross-study learning that came out of a convening of the participating organizations in March 2019. This includes similarities and differences between the studies; insights and questions about OY evaluation; and what future OY evaluation and studies might focus on. (Note: this Brief does not describe or compare the impacts-related findings of the five studies, as four of the evaluations have yet to publish results as of this date.) Read the the brief here.