The Strategies Center at Youth for Change™ customizes each organization’s path to long-term resilience.
The initiative typically begins with investigative discussions among organizational teams led by a Strategies Center change leader. These discussions, which may be conducted online or face-to-face at or near your site, are guided by a tested organizational resilience framework including nine areas of capacity:
This facilitated, rigorous self-examination leads to targeted assessment to quantify organizational capacities. The Strategies Center may recommend a number of measures; including the iCAT (impact Capacity Assessment Tool). These data create a baseline against which change can be measured, as well as inform the collaborative development of a customized work plan to strengthen organizational resilience.
Status checks and post-test measures are administered at pre-determined intervals to better align the work plan with organizational circumstances if needed, and to document the policy and practice changes achieved to strengthen your organization’s resilience.