Transcript Looking Back, Looking Forward: Review of 2012

Collaborative Mentoring
Webinar Series
Advocate and Raise Our Collective Voices
in Support of Mentoring
February 21, 2013
2013 Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series
Planning Team
Sarah Kremer,
Friends for Youth
Dana Gold, MP of
SWPA
Michael Garringer,
Education Northwest
Tammy Tai,
MENTOR
Polly Roach, MP of
Minnesota
Meghan Ferns,
Oregon Mentors
Molly Brenner,
MENTOR
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Good to Know…
After the webinar, all attendees receive:
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recording
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Today’s Webinar
• Janet Forbush
– Importance of advocacy in youth mentoring field
– Strategies for all programs, regardless of resources
• Elena Sokolow-Kaufman
– Example of one Mentoring Partnership’s successful
advocacy efforts
– What’s worked and hasn’t worked
Q & A throughout the presentation (use the Q & A panel)
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Janet Forbush
Janet Forbush is an independent consultant
specializing in program development and
evaluation of human services programs,
focusing on high-need youth populations.
Currently, she serves as a member of the
Senior Design Team on the American
Institutes for Research (AIR) evaluation of the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention (OJJDP) Strategic Enhancement
to Mentoring Demonstration project. Ms.
Forbush consults with a variety of national,
state, and local government and non-profit
agencies supporting youth development and
mentoring initiatives.
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ad-vo-cate / ad-vo-ca-cy
• One that pleads the cause of another (n)
• One that defends or maintains a cause or
proposal
• The act or process of advocating
• Advocate – work together to inform,
influence and inspire policymakers to take
notice of the importance and need for
mentoring
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Background
• Connections between mentoring
practitioners and researchers have
recently been strengthened
• Far fewer efforts have engaged
policymakers
• Urgent need to expand and enrich this
dialogue – local, state, national levels
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Your Voices Are Needed
• Difficulty is not the process but just getting started
• Start locally…work collaboratively with city and
community leaders, other youth advocates, e.g.,
Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership in New York City,
Mayor Coleman in St. Paul
• Your Congressional representatives and U.S.
Senators are in recess this week…reach out to
them and their staff
• Work through state partnerships as well as ‘niche’
groups, e.g., state juvenile justice boards, Out-ofSchool-Time networks, National League of Cities
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Our Premise
• Is there an ‘Opportunity Youth Cliff’?
• Work of the White House Council on
Community Solutions supports this premise
• Levin, et. al. – ‘The Economic Value of
Opportunity Youth’ – 6.7 million youth
between 16-24 neither enrolled in school nor
in labor market
• Advocates can use recent data to support
argument for more dollars – investing in
youth programs is cost-effective
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Making the Case
• State of the Union address
• Horizon: sequestration (3/1); continuing
resolution (3/27); and, 2014 budget (4/14)
• Key Senate and House hearings/testimony
• Connections with non-governmental
organizations: e.g., America’s Promise
Alliance, National League of Cities,
Opportunity Nation, and United Way
Worldwide
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Advocacy Framework – Stanford Social
Innovation Review (Spring 2013)
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Functioning legislative venue(s)
Policy window – needs of youth
Feasible solution
Our master plan
Strong campaign leader(s)
Collaborative coalition
Mobilized public
Inside champions in legislatures
Implementation path
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Elena Sokolow-Kaufman
Elena Sokolow-Kaufman is the Manager
of Government Relations and Field
Resources for Mass Mentoring
Partnership. She joined MMP in 2009,
and has led the organization’s state level
advocacy work, educating elected and
administration officials on the value of
mentoring, providing training and
technical assistance to youth mentoring
programs in budget advocacy and
building alliances with other networks
focused on improving the lives of youth in
Massachusetts. Prior to her work at
Mass Mentoring, Elena was a Director of
Community Impact at United Way of
Massachusetts Bay where she managed
a portfolio of youth serving grantees.
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History and Vision
• Rationale for engaging in advocacy
– Results of strategic planning process
– Economic downturn
• Vision
– Short term, maintain and/or increase
resources
– Long term, create and implement a shared
policy agenda
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Mentor Matching Grants
• Competitive grant program
• Included in FY99 budget at $1,000,000
• Created and supported over 10,000
mentoring matches
• Required a dollar-for-dollar match for
grantees
• Required financial and programmatic
reporting to show impact
• Significant return on investment
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Funding History
Mentoring Matching Grants Line Item(7061-9634)
Funding Level FY00-FY13
1,000,000
1,000,000
931,000
712,000
712,000
517,000*
500,000
287,000
287,000
350,000
287,000
250,000
100,000** 100,000
FY13
FY12
FY 11
FY 10
Final
FY 10
GAA
FY 09
FY 08
FY 07
FY 06
FY 05
FY 04
FY 03
FY 02
FY 01
FY 00
0
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Strategies and Tactics
• Building relationships with Legislators and
Administration Officials
• Building capacity of MMP staff and board
• Building alliances with other organizations
• Building capacity of the youth mentoring
field
– Training and Technical Assistance
– Action alerts and materials
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Building Relationships with Public Officials
• Government as funder, official as program
officer
– Year round communication
– Research interests
– Site visits/ opportunities to meet matches
– Invite to events and give them a role
– Public awareness opportunities
– Be a resource
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What We Have Learned
• Relationships are critical
• Youth mentoring programs must be at the
center
• Be able to adapt approach to changing
environment/players
• Build off what works, learn from tactics
that are less successful
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Resources
• Alliance for Excellent Education (http://www.all4ed.org)
• Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)/We Dream a World: The
2025 Vision for Black Men and Boys
(http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/documents/files/2025BMBfulldoc.pd
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• National League of Cities – Institute for Youth, Education and
Families (www.nlc.org)
• Opportunity Nation (www.opportunitynation.org)
• Continuing resolution updates:
http://www.governing.com/news/state/gov-continuing-resolutiondeadline-raises-concerns-capitol-hill.html
• Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance: Poverty, Literacy, and the
Development of Information Capital, Neuman, S. & Celano, Donna,
Teachers College Press (2012)
• How Children Succeed, Tough, P., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2012)
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Remember…
After the webinar:
 Everyone will get an email with
information on how to download the
slides/recording
 Continue the conversation at the
Chronicle of Evidence-Based
Mentoring:
http://chronicle.umbmentoring.org/
Please help us
out by
answering
survey
questions at the
end of the
webinar.
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2013 Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series
Thank you for participating today!
Sarah Kremer,
Friends for Youth
Michael Garringer,
Education Northwest
Dana Gold, MP of
SWPA
Polly Roach, MP of
Minnesota
Tammy Tai,
MENTOR
Meghan Ferns,
Oregon Mentors
Molly Brenner,
MENTOR
Next Webinar is March 21, 2013
Topic: “Youth Mentoring in Contemporary Perspective” with Michael Karcher and David DuBois, authors
of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring
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