Mentoring for Youth and Young Adults from Care (MYYAC) Project Evaluation

This project between the Evaluation Capacity Network (ECN) at the University of Alberta and the Alberta Mentoring Partnership (AMP) has 3 objectives: (1) support AMP and its partner organizations in implementing a
community-based evaluation of their new Mentoring for Youth and Young Adults from Care (MYYAC) program; (1a) provide evaluation capacity building supports to facilitate the evaluation; (2) research how participatory
evaluation and other evaluation capacity building processes build evaluation capacity; and (3) document processes of decolonizing and Indigenizing evaluation and evaluation capacity building. Interns will achieve these
goals using community-based participatory research and community-based evaluation. This project will provide information to AMP, MYYAC organizations, and other stakeholders that informs, improves, and demonstrates the
impact of the MYYAC program. We also hope this project will help build the capacity of AMP and MYYAC organizations to gather evidence that informs their programs, practices, and policies for supporting children, youth,
and families.

Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca Gokiert

Student:

Partner:

Boys and Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton and Area

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Alberta

Program: