Engaging At-Risk Youth in Evaluation

Date

Wednesday, March 13
9:30am-11:30am

Presenter(s)

Ross VeLure Roholt, PhD, MSW
University of Minnesota

Ross VeLure Roholt, PhD, MSW, is Associate Professor, Youth Studies, School of Social Work, and University of Minnesota. Before joining the Youth Studies faculty, Dr. VeLure Roholt worked for two years in Belfast, Northern Ireland on issues around youth civic engagement and youthwork practice. He has consulted both locally and internationally on youthwork practice, especially in Jordan, Israel, and Palestine territories. His scholarship focuses on evaluation including publications on Evaluation in Contested Spaces and Evaluating Youth Programs .

Description

In this session, we explore the history of youth focused evaluation and the emerging trends and approaches to respectfully include young people in evaluation studies. Proposed approaches will be assessed through the standards of evaluation and participants will leave with an understanding of the strengths and limitations of each approach.

Purpose

The history of youth focused evaluations; the violence that can occur in youth focused evaluations, the different roles young people often play in evaluation studies; innovations to engaging young people in evaluation, including youth-led evaluation approaches; designs and methodological considerations for involving young people in evaluations from respondent to participant.