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The Emanuel & Pauline A. Lerner Foundation’s Aspirations Incubator (AI) is a six-year pilot initiative invested in strategic capacity building for six youth development organizations in rural Maine. Grounded in the Trekkers Youth Programming Principles, the Aspirations Incubator invests targeted resources to provide long-term, comprehensive relationship-based programming to youth. This structured yet flexible program model aims to increase resiliency and introduce new opportunities to cohorts of young people starting in 7th grade and continuing through high school graduation. To document the potential impact and effectiveness of this unique model, the Lerner Foundation contracted with the Data Innovation Project to conduct a comprehensive, multi-year implementation and outcomes evaluation. This interim report reflects the first three years (September 2017 to August 2020) of a six-year longitudinal program evaluation and details findings related to program implementation and model fidelity, and emergent participant outcomes. A final report is also available.
Publication Date
3-2021
Publisher
Maine Rural Futures Fund
City
Portalnd, Maine
Keywords
rural youth, career exploration, job readiness, career development, workforce development, Data Innovation Project, Aspirations Incubator, Rural Futures Fund
Disciplines
Art and Design | Digital Humanities | Education | Graphic Design | Interdisciplinary Arts and Media | Statistics and Probability
Recommended Citation
Goan, Sarah; Way, Elora; and Plotkin, Alexa, "Aspirations Incubator: 2017–2023 Interim Evaluation Report" (2021). Publications. 12.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/dip_publications/12
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Produced by the Data Innovation Project on behalf of Rural Futures Fund