[Keesha]

The program collects the following data:

• Client registration which includes demographics ranging from age, gender, immigration status, indigenous status,
• Workshop attendance
• Submission of assignment
• Client surveys

The program could implement surveys based on program activities and workshops so program staff can understand if the activities and workshop are relevant, or if there is anything missing that clients want to learn or discuss.

[Montse]

DO:
-Number of campers

-Interest in STEM (Day 1 vs Day 5)

-Understanding of STEM (Day 1 vs Day 5)

-Knowledge on Native language, traditional territory, Indigenous stories

-Understanding of braiding knowledges

-Rose, thorn, bud
DON’T

-Level of enjoyment (from 1 to 5)

[Sonya]

Data already collected

Rolled-up annual cohort data collected as part of national Indigenous youth internship program I helped review includes:

– total number of participants, status (number of early terminations, unemployed, student, employed)

– education or studies (high school, college, university completed, bachelor completed, masters/doctorate uncomplete, masters/doctorate completed)

– visible minorities (person with disability, women, other gender)

– early termination (number, reasons)

Individual program delivery partners collect additional data to be able to report on their progress towards meeting the expected results of the program’s project management framework. This data includes (non-exhaustive) items like youth-reported (male, female) improved skills in communication, critical thinking, teamwork, leadership, monitoring and evaluation, networking, and project management. Data collected also includes whether or not Indigenous youth interns have developed a career plan by the end of their internship.

Data could collect that not already

Based on the program review, additional data this program might consider collecting could be related to outcomes that Indigenous youth interns had identified as being most meaningful to them, which could include (non-exhaustive):

– Personal growth

– Spiritual growth

– Deep relationships with new groups of people (among participants, with mentors and Elders and/or with international co-participants)

– Self-confidence

– Stress management skills

– Capacity to leverage emotional growth into informed action

– Employment skills (e.g., planning, coordination, implementation of project, early childhood education, community mobilization

– Sense of self-direction in life and career and life aims

– Sense of self-agency and self-determination in moving through colonial impacts on their lives in relation to gender and social justice

– Awareness of self and family and community in context of shared Indigenous colonial experiences

– Motivation to contribute to community development back home

While many of these would typically be considered qualitative data, it might be possible to develop quantitative data measures for some items to ask youth interns pre and post if they have experienced any shifts in these items and if they could quantify how much, on a scale. This could be augmented by collecting qualitative data from the youth interns.

[Meera]

For our program we collect their demographic information, Educational status, Work Status, and What other support we can provide them with. This way if there are any resources for a specific group of people, for instance like newcomers or jobs for people in the Golden Mile Area. We are able to filter through our list and reach out to the youths with the resources and opportunities. After each workshop, we ask the youths to fill out a feedback form and topics they would like to see in the future. Our goal is for youths to find employment. Maybe if we can ask them for their LinkedIn profile as well to see if they did find employment. There are times we don’t hear from the youth afterwards.

[jayal]

For my personal proposed youth program (related to media/art) , it isn’t funded and it is more a personal project that maybe I would grow into something larger and therefore I do not/haven’t collected any information. Mainly in the past collaborative projecr, it would be registration/names, date of workshop delivery, number of participants, some general survey/feedback forms informal written and verbal guestbook/log, social media engagement statistics for audience/listeners provided alot of data actually about demographics etc.

[Marco]

We currently collect the following data: registration, attendance, administrative records, program notes, feedback surveys, and demographics for one of our programs. We could be collecting demographics (age, gender, residence, etc.) for all of our programs.

[Caroline]

That’s great, Marco! Sounds like your organization is already collecting a lot of valuable data. I like how you mentioned registration/attendance records- this is a source of data that a lot of organizations collect that they forget can be used for evaluation purposes!