1. The 2009
Youth Development
& Outcomes Conference
Improving Youth Development through Positive Youth Program Outcomes
March 23-24, 2009 | Washington, DC
Optional Pre-Conference Workshop March 23, 2009
Earn up to 11 CPE Credits
Optional Post-Conference Workshops March 25, 2009
You Will Learn How to:
Leverage Funding and Resources to Develop Performance Measures that
Sustain Your Youth Services Programs Align with Your Program Mission
Implement strategies to win grants and comply Learn measures to develop performance and
with key federal financial standards increase results for your organization
Forge Public-Private Partnerships to Identify Key Performance Indicators in
Enhance Program Capacity School, Work and Intervention Programs
Collaborate effectively with local business and Hear about positive outcome results in programs
community organizations to enhance your for all youth including those with disabilities and
program success juvenile crime records
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2. Building Talent through
Youth Training Programs
and Education
Optional Pre-Conference
Top 5
Workshop: March 23, 2009
Reasons to Attend:
Pre-Conference Workshops are hands-on, interactive sessions with
specially designed exercises and projects that have immediate
1. Design outcome
application. With this full day application session, you will enhance
measures to improve
your training experience by establishing a reference point of
knowledge, language and methodologies for the rest of the event. performance, reporting
This seminar will dive deep into the process or winning and managing and funding outcomes
grants to help improve your expertise and gain knowledge of practical
tools to implement from field experts. Enrollment space is limited, so 2. Utilize new and existing
register today to reserve your place. partnerships to enhance
awareness of your
8:30 Pre- Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast
youth program
9:00 Pre-Conference Workshop: 3. Create a strategic plan
Grants Management, the Winning Move: Strategies that helps you work
for Youth Services Programs toward outcome goals and
financial responsibility
As youth service organizations increasingly move towards
performance-based grants, more emphasis will be placed
4. Learn to use Web 2.0
on the application and evaluation processes. Agencies and
to enhance your youth
organizations will be under increasing pressure to measure,
evaluate and improve the results of their grants. Performance program and target hard to
management is an important tool for your grant programs
reach youth
to ensure clearly defined outcomes and accountability. In
this workshop, explore all aspects of grant and proposal 5. Develop indicators of
development and develop a framework for measuring and
success to meet the needs
reporting the performance of youth service programs your
of all youth enrolled in
organization or agency provides.
your programs
• Understand emerging accountability and transparency issues
in grants management
• Discover best practices for grant writing
• Create grant applications that set your organization apart
by linking performance measures to the effectiveness of
“Great conference! It was
your grant
• Acquire and utilize strategies to evaluate your grants and
very relevant to the needs
report back to the funder
of WIA programs”
• Target agencies that can help you reach your goals as well as
focus on methods of fostering these relationships to ensure Angela Collins, Youth Program
that partnerships are long-lasting Coordinator, East Central Georgia
• Link performance-based grants to organizational Consortium
performance measures
Elizabeth Holden
President and CEO, PrimePoint LLC
Senior Fellow, The Performance Institute
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12:00 Workshop Adjourns/Conference Registration

3. Implement New Training
Programs and Build Youth
Skills Sets
Day One: March 23, 2009
Who
1:00 Keynote Address: Through Their Eyes: Should Attend?
The State of Today’s Youth
• Youth Employment
Today’s youth need guidance, support and opportunities more
than ever before. By developing the skills to be self- sufficient Program Managers
and self-assured, today’s youth will turn into the leaders
• Program Directors
of tomorrow. Hear about ways to improve outcomes and
opportunities for youth by helping them to shape their lives
• One-Stop Career Center
and stay engaged in the world around them. Also learn ways
Managers
you can implement positive change in the lives of today’s youth
community through the mission of your programs.
• Education Program
• Identify how to prepare youth with essential skills to meet
Administrators
trends and demands in today’s society
• Hear ways to work together to create opportunities for growth • Youth Service Organization
• Close the communication gap and engage all youth Directors
Maureen Sedonaen
• Regional Workforce Offices
President and CEO
Youth Leadership Institute • Counseling Directors
• Transition Coordinators
2:00 Break & Refreshments
• Workforce Development
Develop a Strategic Plan for Your Youth Program
2:15
Boards
• Define your mission and program outcome goals
• Workforce System Youth
• Establish outcome goals to drive mission-aligned
organizational results Program Developers
• Ensure that responsible fiscal management is a priority in
• Nonprofits and Community-
your strategic plan
Based Organizations
Elizabeth Holden
President and CEO, PrimePoint LLC
Senior Fellow, The Performance Institute
‘It was interesting receiving
Build Partnerships by Engaging Employers
3:15
many different points of
• Learn how to raise community awareness of youth
view on outcomes.’
employment issues, enhance existing business partnerships
and foster new relationships with the private sector
Dan Leibowitz, Project Coordi-
• Discover the insiders’ perspective as to what employers are
nator, Isles YouthBuild Institute
looking for in potential employees
• Identify the challenges and solutions to building effective
employer-community relationships
Daniel Horgan
Executive Director, Pittsburgh Cares
Senior Fellow, The Performance Institute
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4:15 Adjourn

4. Develop strategic
Partnerships to Gain
Resources and Improve
Youth Outcomes
Day Two: March 24, 2008
8:30 Continental Breakfast
Report Outcomes to Stakeholders
11:15
Keynote Address: Social Networking
9:00 • Maintain an open communication line
101: The Importance of Engaging Youth between the organization and outside
stakeholders
through Web 2.0 and Beyond
• Engage donors and non-donors in examining
Today’s youth are often referred to as the
your outcome measures
“Internet Generation.” They use the computer
• Use your measures data to convey
not only to do research or homework but to
accountability and results to new and existing
download music, network with peers and
donors and other stakeholders
update their blogs. With the influence of Web
Daniel Horgan
2.0 and beyond there has been a shift in the way
today’s youth seeks information, communicates Executive Director, Pittsburgh Cares
and responds. Hear about ways to employ Senior Fellow, The Performance Institute
Web 2.0 technologies to promote your youth
program and contact even the hardest to
12:00 Lunch
reach youth. Also learn how to enhance youth
creativity and engagement through web
based initiatives. Recruit and Retain: Positive
12:45
Employment Outcomes for
Regina Mahone
The Foundation Center Young Adults
• Examine the link between socio-economic
10:00 Break & Refreshments status and successful employment for youth
• Learn ways to encourage educational
Select the Right Performance Measures and technical programs to help with job
10:15
preparedness
for Your Youth Program
• Determine barriers to employment and how
• Learn to develop quality performance
youth can overcome them and be successful
measures that help drive results in
in today’s uncertain economy
your agency
Joe Carbone
• Identify and define intermediate and end
President and CEO
outcomes for your financial management
The Workplace Inc.
framework
• Analyze ways to audit and evaluate
your measures to build a more successful 1:45 Break
management system
Jon Desenberg
Senior Consulting Director
The Performance Institute
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5. Adopt New Innovative
Strategies to Recruit
Youth to Your Program
Day Two: Continued
Out of School Time: Success Indicators
3:45
for Youth in After School Programs
Improve Results in the Juvenile
2:00
Justice System through Early • Link after school programs to proven results
for improving academic achievement and
Intervention Initiatives
attendance
• Development measures to increase the
• Learn to promote your after school program
effectiveness of your youth prevention program
as a stepping stone to academic and
• Learn how to maximize monetary resources
employment success
and personnel to target delinquency before
• Show how after school programs foster
it starts
coping skills, conflict resolution and fair play
• Understand how to lessen the effects of
rules within today’s youth
delinquency through mentoring, employment
Rivka Burstein-Stern
and after school activities
Field Outreach Coordinator
TeNeane P. Bradford MAMNGT, MAHRDV
The Afterschool Alliance
Intensive Supervision State
Coordinator/Reentry SC DJJ
4:30 Conference Adjourns
Office of Community Justice
Address School to Work Transition
2:45
Outcomes for Youth with Disabilities
Post-Conference
• Determine secondary education trends impact
youth with disabilities
Webinar:
• Deploy a coordinated effort of resources to
promote positive planning and outcomes for
transitioning youth
Our post-event webinars are a great way to continue
• Identify ways to meet the needs of this the learning experience – or, if you can’t attend the
population through the creation of event, gain knowledge on the subject.
a transition services and meaningful
Date: April 2, 2009
employment
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM EST
Jennifer Ridder
Speaker: Elizabeth Holden
Program Director
Identifying Funding Sources to Sustain and
Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Enhance Youth Programs
During this interactive webinar, you will learn
techniques to identify unique funding sources to
enhance the execution of your youth program and
build the capacity of your organization.
Register for this webinar by visiting
www.YouthServicesSummit.org or by
calling Melvin Hall at 703-894-0481.
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6. Engage All Stakeholders
to Promote Positive
Youth Development
Optional Post-Conference
Workshops: March 25, 2009
8:30 Workshop Registration & Continental Breakfast
Post-Conference Workshops are practical, supplementary application sessions which incorporate and review tools,
techniques and methods presented during the event. Participants will obtain a further understanding of how to
use newly acquired tools and cutting-edge strategies. Through group exercises and scenario-based learning, you’ll
walk away with the expertise and resources needed for immediate and practical application. Enrollment space is
limited, so register today to reserve your place.
Workshop A: Developing Performance Workshop B: Designing and
9:00
Measures: The Logic Model Approach Implementing a Successful Recruitment
Marketing Plan
In this session, you will establish and utilize
performance measures to develop a tactical plan This workshop will provide you with all the
to improve positive youth development services, tools that are necessary to design a marketing
as well as develop a framework for measuring plan to attract youth to your program. Harness
and reporting the performance of youth successful marketing principles so you can
development programs. Use “logic modeling” penetrate and communicate with your targeted
as a tool for establishing clear intermediate audience to ensure success of your initiatives.
and end-outcome goals and measures. Align
• Ensure your marketing activities are tailored
your performance indicators so that they are
to fit your specific program needs
consistent with long-term development goals of
• Study recruitment methods including
youth service programs and mission. Build your
advertising campaigns, career fairs and
organization’s capacity for strategic planning
successful community initiatives
and achieving youth performance outcomes
• Learn how to conduct a successful online
• Learn how to link organizational recruitment advertising campaign and
resources to results identify what makes an website effective
• Implement strategic planning and goal
Doug Knight
setting into your agenda
Vice President
• Manage your workforce to produce
Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund
positive outcomes
Jon Desenberg
Senior Consulting Director
The Performance Institute
12:00 Workshop Adjourns
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7. Logistics
Venue & Hotel
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Arlington Rosslyn
Courtyard by Marriott at the prevailing rate of $209.00 until February
Sponsorship
23, 2009. This rate is based on the Government Per Diem and is subject
to change. Please call the hotel directly and reference code “Youth
Outcomes” when making reservations to get the discounted rate. The hotel
is conveniently located three blocks from the Rosslyn Metro station. Please
Opportunities
ask the hotel about a complimentary shuttle that is also available for your
convenience.
Conference Address:
The Performance Institute
As a conference and training provider, The
1515 N. Courthouse Rd.
Performance Institute is an expert in bringing
Suite 600
Arlington, VA 22201
together leaders to share and discuss best
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Arlington Rosslyn
practices and innovations. We connect decision-
Courtyard by Marriott at the prevailing rate of $209.00 until February 23,
makers with respected solution providers.
2009. Please call the hotel directly and reference code “Youth Outcomes”
when making reservations to get the discounted rate. The hotel is
The Institute offers five different pre-designed
conveniently located three blocks from the Rosslyn Metro station. Please
ask the hotel about a complimentary shuttle that is also available for your
sponsorship packages:
convenience.
• Event Co-Sponsor
Arlington Rosslyn Courtyard by Marriott
1533 Clarendon Blvd.
• Session Sponsor
Arlington, VA 22209
• Luncheon Sponsor
Phone: 703-528-2222
www.courtyardarlingtonrosslyn.com
• Cocktail Hour Sponsor
• Exhibit Booth Sponsor
Tuition & Group Discounts
For more information on sponsorships or to get
The tuition rate for attending The 2009 Youth Development and Outcomes
Conference is as follows:
started, contact Jessica Ward at 703-894-0481 or
Early Bird Rate Regular Rate
Ward@PerformanceWeb.org
Conference Only $599 $699
One Workshop -------- $399
Two Workshops -------- $599
Post-Conference Webinar -------- $299
* For the Early Bird Rate, Register By: January 12, 2009
For more information on group discounts for The 2009 Youth Development
and Outcomes Conference please contact Melvin Hall at 703-894-0481 or
email him at Hall@PerformanceWeb.org
CPE Credits
Delivery Method: Group-live
Program Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None
Advanced Preparation: None
CPE Credits: Up to 11
The American Strategic Management Institute (ASMI) is registered with the National Association of State
Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry
of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for
CPE credit. Complaints regarding sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150
Fourth Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37219-2417. Website: www.nasba.org.
Cancellations and Quality Assurance
The Performance Institute strives to provide you with the most productive and effective educational
experience possible. If after completing the course you feel there is some way we can improve, please
write your comments on the evaluation form provided upon your arrival. Should you feel dissatisfied with
your learning experience and wish to request a credit or refund, please submit it in writing no later than
10 business days after the end of the training to: Tara Shuert, VP of Education Services, The Performance
Institute, 1515 N. Courthouse Road, Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201. We will evaluate individual complaints
in a context of collective comments from the event.
Note: A $150 service fee will be charged on cancellations received less than four weeks from the date
of the event. A credit memo will also be sent reflective of that amount, which can be used for a future
conference. If you do not cancel your registration before the day of the event, you will be charged for the
full conference amount. As speakers are confirmed six months before the event, some speaker changes or
topic changes may occur in the program. The Performance Institute is not responsible for speaker changes,
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but will work to ensure a comparable speaker is located to participate in the program.
If for any reason The Performance Institute decides to cancel this conference, PI accepts no responsibility
for covering airfare, hotel or other costs incurred by registrants, including delegates, sponsors and guests.

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