Operational Excellence:
SDM Enhancements for Results
2011 National Conference • Dallas, Texas • June 14 - 16
Purpose of today’s session
• Identify themes from network experience and data, child safety data and youth mentoring research that have implications for service delivery
• Share and discuss both the content and process for SDM revision
Lifecycle of an evidence-based practice
2011 National Conference • Dallas, Texas
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Promising practice
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Mentoring literature
Agency practice
Youth development lit.
Child safety data
Agency practice
Network data
Agency practice
Child protection lit.
Trends and promising practices are identified
Promising practices are tested
Tested and revised practices are shared or rolled out to the network
Standards
SDM
Resources, tools,
opportunities
Program enhancement themes
• Critical practices can help enhance our ability to protect children from harm
• Parents/guardians are important partners in the process of making and supporting a match
• Professionally supporting our matches through consistent, high-quality match support is a key to longer, stronger, safer matches
• An effective school- or site-based program may be more similar to community-based mentoring than previously thought
• Data, as collected in the SoR and YOS, can be useful as diagnostic tools, as well as outcomes measurement
• Appropriate orientation and training of volunteer, parent and youth are critical to a successful, safe match.
These themes can inform our model across all functional areas
Program Implications
• Build stronger partnerships with schools (clear roles, shared results)• Recruit for minimum 12 month commitment and expectation of multi-year relationship (in school- or site-based programs, too!)
• Carefully screen, assess, and train Bigs to promote child safety• Provide thorough orientation to parents and youth to promote child safety•Engage parents in the matching process• Reinforce and plan for minimum 12 month involvement
• Provide frequent, regular contacts with all participants• Make the most of match support contacts - provide individual opportunity to listen, support, and coach (for school-based, make contacts outside of program time) and use info gathered to assess match needs• Administer –and use– the SoR and YOS
2011 National Conference • Dallas, Texas
Partnership, community engagement
& recruitmentEnrollment & matching Match support
Proposed next steps for SDM
• Finalize and collect “inputs” for SDM revisions:- Standards: rationale, stakeholder input, and resulting vote- Existing data sources: child safety research, program practices
survey, mentoring literature- Forthcoming data: ESBM pilot , new mentoring literature (meta-
analysis)
• Revise SBM and CBM descriptions, tools, supporting forms, etc.
• Incorporate revised SDM into “next gen” AIM
• Roll out revised SDM
2011 National Conference • Dallas, Texas