Resource Center
Practical guidance for running stronger youth and family programs.
Working tools you can use this week — written for the people who run intake, manage mentors, and answer to funders. Every guide is published in full: no forms to fill out, nothing gated, nothing to download.
- Checklist · 14 itemsYouth Program Data Audit ChecklistA 14-item checklist for finding every place participant data lives — and the four risks it creates: duplicate people, consent gaps, and uncontrolled access.Read it
- Buyer's guide · 12 questionsMentoring Software Evaluation GuideTwelve questions to put to any mentoring software vendor — screening, data ownership, mobile logging, restricted notes, pricing — and what each answer means.Read it
- Article · 8-minute readHow to Avoid Double-Counting ParticipantsWhy unique-participant counts drift upward in spreadsheet-run organizations, what an unduplicated count means, and which parts of the fix no software can do.Read it
- Buyer's guide · 7 criteriaHow to Choose Youth Program Management SoftwareSeven criteria that decide whether youth program software works in year two — data model, households, access, reporting, cost — with a test for each one.Read it
- How-to article · 6 stepsHow to Track Youth Outcomes Across ProgramsSix steps to outcome tracking that survives young people moving between programs: a taxonomy, an honest denominator, and a follow-up cadence you can keep.Read it
- Comparison · 9-minute readGoogle Forms & Excel vs. Purpose-Built SoftwareWhat Forms and Excel genuinely do well, the six ways the stack breaks as programs grow, what switching costs, and the signals that say stay where you are.Read it
More guides and templates are in progress.
This Resource Center is new, and we are writing what program teams tell us they need next — grant reporting templates, consent-form guidance, intake design. If there's a topic that would help your team, tell us and we'll prioritize it.
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One record per person, duplicate checks at intake, screening and consent tracking, and reports computed from source records — the practices in these guides, built into the system.
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