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Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH)
National Partner Stakeholder Work Group Meeting
August 24, 2020

Who’s here?
Mathematica
• Kelsey Chesnut, stakeholder
engagement
• Megan Shoji, task lead, stakeholder
engagement
• Morgan Woods, stakeholder
engagement
• Cay Bradley, project director
• Menbere Shiferaw, impact study
design
• Rosalind Keith, implementation study
design lead
• Missy Thomas, survey director

Project officers
• Mary Mueggenborg, Office of
Planning, Research, and Evaluation
• Catherine Heath, Children’s Bureau

Stakeholders
YARH National Partner Stakeholder
Work Group members

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YARH National Partner Stakeholder Work
Group
David Howard
• Covenant House
Jasmine Hayes
• Capacity Building Center for States
Johanna Bergan
• Youth Move
Laura Chadwick
• Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation
Megan Gibbard Kline
• A Way Home America
Michelle Daly
• SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Anna Gennari
• Foster Youth in Action
Caroline Crouse
• Dept. Housing and Urban
Development
Catherine Lester
• Jim Casey Youth Opportunities
Initiative
Kevin Solarte
• Corporation for Supportive Housing
Krysta Esquivel
• YMCA of San Diego County

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Today’s Goals

Inform recruitment plans for the YARH-3
summative evaluation
Build the evidence base on promising strategies to prevent
homelessness and support youth and young adults involved
in the child welfare system
Assess implementation and impacts of Colorado’s Pathways
to Success (Pathways) program on key outcomes
Continue evaluation activities with Alameda to continue to
strengthen the Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP) program
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66%
56%

49%

45%
Pathways Serves High-Risk Youth

Enrolled Youth Report an Average of 4.9 Risk
Factors
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Icebreaker

In the chat window, share one effective, cool, promising, or
go-to strategy for involving this population in research.

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Discuss three aspects of our plans
1. Study recruitment script
2. Focus group recruitment
3. Data collection incentives

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Study Recruitment

Overview of study recruitment plans
Identify eligible youth
• Youth ages 14-21
• Eligible for Chafee services
• Report at least one risk factor on
Pathways screening tool
Collaborate with Colorado
Team
 Content knowledge
 Wisdom
 Partnering opportunities

Invite youth to participate in
the study
• Briefly describe the study and what
participation would involve
• Obtain informed consent
• Materials
 Recruitment protocol
 Study consent form
 FAQ resource
 Recruitment script

Supporting Youth to be
Successful in Life (SYSIL)

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Recruitment script
• Lights, camera, role play!
• General introduction to gauge interest
• As you listen to the script, think about the following:
- Will the script engage youth?
- Is the language in the script accessible to this population and age group? Will the
script effectively inform youth about what activities they would be asked to be
involved in as part of the study?
- Does the script need to provide more detail? Less detail?
- Is the script inclusive of a range of experiences and situations?
- Is the script coercive in any way?

*We’ll discuss incentives later in the meeting
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Let’s discuss! Feedback on the script
1
min

• What could be improved?

- Will the script engage youth?
- Is the language in the script accessible to this population and age group? Will
the script effectively inform youth about what activities they would be asked
to be involved in as part of the study?
- Does the script need to provide more detail? Less detail?
- Is the script inclusive of a range of experiences and situations?
- Is the script coercive in any way?

• What effective strategies have you seen for engaging
young adults with child welfare histories when inviting
them to participate in a study?
Jump to Slide 12

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Focus Group Recruitment

Purpose of the focus groups
Youth offered Pathways services
(intervention group)
• What were youths’ perceptions of
the Pathways model? How did
they describe their experience
with it?
• What factors helped youth engage
in Pathways, or kept them from
engaging in it?

Youth offered comparison services
(comparison group)
• How were services available to
youth in the comparison group
(Chafee services) distinct from
services available to youth in the
intervention group (Pathways
services)?

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Focus group recruitment strategy
• Coordinate with county to identify most effective approach
to recruit youth with varying levels of program engagement
• Go to www.menti.com and enter the code 83 32 03
From your experience working with this population, what
strategies would you suggest we use to recruit youth with
varying levels of service engagement?

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Your ideas for strategies for focus group
recruitment strategies: Menti poll results

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Focus group recruitment plans
1. Have Pathways graduates recruit and conduct the focus
groups in intervention counties
- What are some potential challenges or obstacles to that approach?

2. Invite 8-10 youth per county to achieve focus group of 4
youth, and offer participation incentive
- Does that assumption sound right to you? Do you think response rates might be
lower than we expect?

Jump to Slide 19

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Virtual focus group plans
• Use a virtual focus group discussion board
- Preprogrammed questions
- Moderator can respond publicly or privately
- Can leave open for 1 to 5 days with different questions each day
- Provide anonymity to respondents

Based on your experience and knowledge of this population,
what are the advantages and key challenges to conducting
virtual focus groups?

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Data Collection Incentives

Incentives for surveys and focus groups
• Framed as a thank you for completion of the survey
• Planned incentives for survey participation
- Baseline: $35 gift card and dry/travel bag
- 6 month follow-up: $40 gift card
- 12 month follow-up: $50 gift card
- 24 month follow-up: $75 gift card

• Planned incentives for focus group participation
- $40 per youth (approximately 4 youth per site)

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Incentives for surveys and focus groups
• Go to www.menti.com and enter the code 96 37 39

1. What percentage of the total $200 budget for
incentives (per youth) should we assign to each
survey?
2. Any other thoughts/comments you want to
share?
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Your thoughts on survey incentives: Menti
poll results

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Wrap-Up

Next steps
• You: Share any additional thoughts in writing by the end of the
week
- Email to Kelsey Chesnut: [email protected]

• Mathematica: Use feedback to inform recruitment plans
- Summarize feedback and potential implications for our plans
- Share with federal partners and incorporate into evaluation design

• Next opportunity to contribute
- Stakeholder work group meetings on initial findings and reporting (summer/fall 2022
and winter 2023)
- Potential invitations for ad hoc opportunities
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Any questions

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For additional information or questions
- Kelsey Chesnut, Mathematica (Stakeholder workgroup
questions)
[email protected]

- Cay Bradley, Mathematica (general YARH questions)
[email protected]

- Mary Mueggenborg, Office of Planning, Research &
Evaluation
[email protected]

- Catherine Heath, Children’s Bureau
[email protected]
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