{"id":21425,"date":"2017-07-27T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=21425"},"modified":"2017-07-27T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:38:17","slug":"my-sister-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/my-sister-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sister Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, I had an opportunity to work with a wonderful non-profit in the metro Detroit area. My Sister Circle&#8217;s (MSC) mission is to create an environment that encourages healthy relationships between women of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>One effort that helps this organization achieve this mission is the My Sister&#8217;s Keeper Mentoring Outreach Program (MSK-MOP). The outreach program is based at Denby High School on Detroit&#8217;s east side. This year, the 1-hour weekly after school session ran during the winter semester from April through June.<\/p>\n<p>During this project we set our focus on the following design challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>How might we enhance the My Sister Circle Mentoring &amp; Outreach Program curriculum to show young women their work, provide them with positive role models, and expose them to new opportunities?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given this, I set out to help the organization accomplish three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standardize program curriculum<\/li>\n<li>Standardize program delivery methods<\/li>\n<li>Adjust the approach to fundraising<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to do this I conducted over 10 interviews with founders, program coordinators, and curriculum developers from a variety of organizations that work with high school students. Through these interviews, I learned a lot of different best practices\u00a0that could help MSC improve.<\/p>\n<p>One of the challenging aspects of curriculum design for a mentoring and outreach program is that the desires outcomes often can&#8217;t be directly measured and the impact delivered usually isn&#8217;t realized immediately. To help link the program&#8217;s activities to the desired outcomes, I developed an evaluation framework\u00a0that maps learning behaviors to intended goals. You can see one example below.<\/p>\n<table width=\"716\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"256\"><strong>Learning Domain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"261\"><strong>Learning Outcome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"199\"><strong>Evaluation Behavior<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"716\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"256\">Building self-confidence and self esteem<\/td>\n<td width=\"261\">Understand how to be confident in themselves and what it means to have self esteem<\/td>\n<td width=\"199\">I understand how to think positvely about my self-image and practice affirmation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once the framework is established, the program activities can be designed anew or modified\u00a0to help student learn these behaviors more efficiently. The learning outcomes are measured by pre- and post- assessment in order to determine the extent to which the MSK-MOP has an impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks, I had an opportunity to work with a wonderful non-profit in the metro Detroit area. My Sister Circle&#8217;s (MSC) mission is to create an environment that encourages healthy relationships between women of all ages. 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