Youth LGBT Program Evaluation and “True North” Facilitation

The San Francisco LGBT Center

Project Years: 2020-2021

The SF LGBT Center Youth Program provides a drop-in program, navigation services for safe and stable housing, and culturally responsive, trauma-informed and restorative justice-based behavioral health services for youth in San Francisco. They wanted to develop an evaluation plan that would help them focus on best reaching the needs of queer San Francisco youth in future years.

Facente Consulting was hired to assist them to develop and refine their program outcomes and objectives, develop measurement tools and processes, and assemble a written evaluation manual for use moving forward. The Center also asked us to facilitate a session helping them define the program’s “True North” for the next several years. Together, these deliverables helped the Center to refocus their Youth Programs, especially while whethering the COVID-19 pandemic, which had a substantial impact on many of the disconnected youth they serve.

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