Planning Youth Employment Programs

January: Time to plan summer youth employment programs.

If your program serves more than 50 students, the amount of work can be dizzying:
~ Recruiting and onboarding employers
~ Recruiting students (tabling, infosessions, outreach)
~ Managing a ton of partnerships (CBO's, training providers, schools)
~ Iterating on last year's selection, matching, and interview process
~ Preparing to hire coaches, coordinators
~ Designing the weekly experience
~ this doesn't even get into the actual program experience where you get into timesheets, approving tasks, tracking milestones, surveys, workshop attendance....

Quinne' Robertson from East Oakland Youth Development Center used to manage all of these moving parts in spreadsheets. But when the program grew to over 500 students, it became really hard to manage, let alone report on their own program's impact.

Campground Systems helped the team save hours and hours of time weekly, collaborate with partners, and just put every element of this complex program in one spot for reporting. Don't take it from me, Quinne' shares her experience here!

Reach out if you realize your summer youth employment program can't live in spreadsheets forever ☀️