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              Nebraska Children and Families Foundation: Connected Youth Initiative
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                Nebraska Children and Families Foundation implemented the Connected Youth Initiative (CYI) to help young people aged 14 to 24 from adverse backgrounds transition towards a positive adulthood. CYI uses a collective impact approach to create systems change in rural Nebraska communities and serves young people in Nebraska through the following essential CYI elements:Opportunities for youth leadership and advocacyA financial literacy and asset-building programSupport services funds for young adults to access an array of basic needs services and supports in emergency instancesGoal-oriented coaching to develop skills, access services, and support self-sufficiency in the transition to adulthood**Study Goals**:The goals of this study are to demonstrate the impacts of the CYI model and to understand implementation in a rural context.**Research Questions**:The evaluation includes both implementation and impact research questions. The research questions include:**Impact Questions:**Compared to similar young people who do not participate, to what extent does CYI improve the following for the young people who participated:overall well-beingaccess to stable housingaccess to stable employment and educationother domains of well-being**Implementation Questions:**How prepared are the communities to implement CYI, and what is their capacity around data collection?What contextual factors about the community, partners, and region influence the implementation of CYI?What are the variations in how CYI is implemented in communities (e.g., services offered, services accepted, participation)?What challenges are the subgrantees facing in the implementation of the CYI model?What positive effects are subgrantees seeing?To what extent, if any, has the focus on collective impact increased the sustainability and capacity of the collaboratives?**Findings:**The evaluation’s findings include the following:**Impact Findings:**CYI achieved multiple positive outcomes for young people who engaged in programming and services.Overall, CYI participants are statistically more likely to report:More safe and stable living situations,Greater financial stability,Increased perceived hope, andDecreased emergency care utilization.**Implementation Findings:**Young adults engaged with the CYI through 16 different types of combinations, though coaching was the most common component utilized across all.At a systems-level, staff indicated that setting the CYI model within a collaborative infrastructure often generated greater awareness and understanding of the unconnected youth population within the community.For more information, download the full report and report brief.

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            NCFF_CYI_Final_Report_FINAL_20200403_508.pdf
                  NCFF_Evaluation_report_brief_FINAL_040220_508.pdf
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      Program/Intervention
                        Connected Youth Initiative
  

      Implementing Organization
                        Nebraska Children and Families Foundation
  

      Intermediary(s)
                        Nebraska Children and Families Foundation
  

      AmeriCorps Program(s)
            Social Innovation Fund
  

      Age(s) Studied
            13-17 (Adolescent)
                  18-25 (Young adult)
  

      Focus Population(s)/Community(s)
            Opportunity Youth
  

      Outcome Category
            Financial literacy
                  Housing
                  Employment
                  K-12 success
                  Post-secondary educational support
                  Access to care
  

      Study Type(s)
            Impact
                  Implementation
  

      Study Design(s)
            Quasi-Experimental (QED)
  

      Level of Evidence
            Moderate
  

      Researcher/Evaluator
                        WestEd
  

      Published Year
                        2020
  

      Study Site Location (State)
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