Welcome! We will begin our webinar at the top of the hour Please have your grant data collection and reporting forms available in this order o Grantee Report Tracking Sheet – Evaluation ID Assignments o Life Skills Assessment Instructions and Form o Semiannual Grantee Report As you log on, do not be surprised if you don’t hear anyone else; participants are placed on mute in order to limit background noise Youth Advocacy – Local and State Grant Webinar

Youth Advocacy Local and State Grant Data Collection and Reporting Requirements Refresher Training

Your presenters Sarah Catherine Williams – Child Trends Research Scientist Coral Edward – National CASA Grants Program Manager

By the end of the webinar, you will be able to: Describe the requirements of the Youth Advocacy grant data collection and reporting Access the Youth Advocacy grant data collection and reporting forms online Be familiar with steps for completing the required forms Objectives

Purpose: To increase the number of children ages 7-17 served by volunteers in the court and community beyond prior year’s level and for youth served to improve work and study skills, self care and social support. Grant Period: June 1, 2014 – May 31, Youth Advocacy new grantees Youth Advocacy Local and State Grant

Volunteers Recruited, trained, activated and retained Youth Served, improved life skills, success in school and delinquency involvement Importance of Reporting To show outputs and outcomes in relation to:

State and local program page Reporting tools 2014 Youth Advocacy (Local and State), Fostering Futures Training and Evidence Based Enhancements Grantee Reporting Data Collection and Reporting

Questions so far?

Measures changes in youth life skills over time Completed by youth and advocate Youth ages 14 and older Completed within two months of volunteer assignment to case and at one year or case closure – whichever comes first New paper version available online Youth Life Skills Assessment

All grantees are required to use the tracking sheet provided by National CASA Auto-populated reports correspond directly to the semiannual grantee report Does the work for you No trying to figure out how to calculate what numbers to report Grantee Report Tracking Sheet

New Volunteers: A volunteer who is new to your program, in that they have not completed the recruitment, training, or swearing in process. Existing Volunteers: These are your veteran volunteers, who have already served kids in the past, or completed the recruitment, training or swearing in process outside of or before the grant. “New” vs. “Existing” Volunteers

Ineligible Youth If a child/youth is not eligible to be tracked under the grant, they should not be entered into the tracking sheet. They may be part of a sibling group that contains children/youth who meet the grant requirements, but if they themselves do not meet the requirements, they should not be tracked.

Updated Tracking Sheet Available New/updated version of the tracking sheet available online Instructions on how to copy information from one document to another are available online as well Example of how to copy information

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions or are unclear about any of the grant reporting requirements. We’re here to help! Leading up the next reporting cycle, please reach out sooner rather than later if you are having technical issues, or need additional guidance. This will help things go more smoothly for everyone. Stay in touch!

Reporting period:Due date: 1/1/15 – 5/31/15July 15, 2015 Entered online at _Semiannual_Grantee_Report Semiannual Grantee Report

Reporting period:Due date: 6/1/14 – 5/31/15June 30, 2015 Grantee narrative reports are in the same format as our traditional grantee narrative reports and will be ed to you from our Grants Manager. Grantee Narrative Report

Coral Edward , ext. 217 Sarah Catherine Williams Questions?