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Maximizing Impact: Connecting Youth Services to Economic Development in Milwaukee

Explore how Milwaukee's Community Development Block Grant can enhance youth programming to drive economic development. Learn about effective youth services grants, benefits for young people and the community, and best practices in performance measurement.

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Maximizing Impact: Connecting Youth Services to Economic Development in Milwaukee

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  1. Milwaukee’s Community Development Block Grant:Connecting Youth Services and Economic Development Nina Carlson Julie Fitzgerald Kevin Murphy Bethany Shore Prepared for the City of Milwaukee, Budget and Management Division, Department of Administration

  2. Introduction • Framing the issue: Problems facing Milwaukee youth • CDGA allocates almost $2 million each year in federal CDBG funding to Youth Services

  3. Purpose • Research Tasks: • Determine the effectiveness of Youth Services grants • Explore the possibility of better linking Youth Services programming to economic development • Methods

  4. Table 1: Carnegie Youth Characteristics and Corresponding CDGA Program Categories

  5. CDGA-sponsored youth programming by category

  6. Research Question 1 Overview • Are CDGA Youth Services grants effective? • Literature review on the general effectiveness of youth programming • Analysis of CDGA performance files

  7. Do Youth Programs Benefit Young People and Their Community? According to academic research, they do. • Examples: • Education  Boost GPAs and school attendance • Rec & Crime Prevention  Lower anti-social behaviors • Civic Engagement  Improve concern for others’ welfare; improve work ethic • The Benefits Last

  8. CDGA’s Reporting & Monitoring System • The beginnings of a successful performance measurement system • Outcome identification • Outcome tracking

  9. Best Practices in Performance Measurement: How do grantees perform? • Outcome measurement • Struggle to distinguish between outputs and outcomes • Data sources • Some fail to use an adequate data source to measure outcomes • Signs of success

  10. Reporting and Monitoring Systems Recommendations • Mandatory Grantee Training Session • Strengthen Grantee Reporting Requirements • Implement a More Interactive Monitoring System

  11. Research Question 2 Overview • How can Milwaukee link Youth Services programming to economic development? • HUD definition of economic development • Creating and maintaining jobs

  12. Evaluation of Programming for Youth

  13. Policy Options • Focus on Job Training • Focus on Post-Secondary Education • Status Quo

  14. Research Question 2 Recommendations • Take a broader perspective on economic development • Expanded definition of economic development • Services that encourage post-secondary opportunities for youth, teach marketable job skills, provide workforce or higher education training for young adults, or encourage productive citizenship • Maintain current mix of programming

  15. Conclusion

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