Views & News
Interviews, essays, podcasts, news from both inside and outside Youth Catalytics: you’ll find it all here. We welcome your ideas, input, conjectures, rejoinders and anything else you have say. We’re a community of professionals who care about young people, and want the information and opinions expressed here to be as vital and vibrant as they are.
Add your expertise to our latest Views & News feature: Voices From The Field. Contact Mindi Wisman for more information at mwisman@youthcatalytics.org
‘Get in the beehive!’ Our conversation with Steven Jella
Listen to our new Voices from the Field podcast with Steven Jella, Associate Executive Director for San Diego Youth Services. We discuss how his organization went from, “90% in-person services to 90% remote services in just 5 days” at the start of the pandemic, and how he has focused on preserving his workforce over this past year.
What’s ahead for youth and youth services? The Foresight Initiative
Today we launch The Foresight Initiative: an inquiry into how our field is rising to meet this moment of extraordinary disruption and uncertainty. Starting with a short survey we will learn what adaptations have worked, what practices have lost relevancy, and what innovations are being planned. Learn more about our new initiative and please take our survey!
A new message from our Chair
I’ve been involved with Youth Catalytics for many years, and I continue to marvel at its resilience and relevance even in extraordinary times such as these. One of the things I most admire is …
Don’t call it “data-gathering.” Just start talking to people.
After compiling the top answers from 25 stakeholder interviews, this Board realized that stakeholders’ #1 response to the question about where their organization was most successful was “I don’t know.”
Serious about diversity? The first step is introspection.
If the drive toward diversity makes so much sense, why is actually achieving diversity so hard?
