Interactive Workshop: Assessing the Effectiveness of Your Youth Protection Program: Lessons from Summer, Priorities for What’s Next

By August, you often have fresh insight from summer programming: what worked well, what created confusion, where policies held up, and where processes revealed gaps. This interactive workshop gives you a structured opportunity to take time to assess and turn those summer lessons into clear next steps.

Grounded in HEPNet’s Assessing the Effectiveness of Your Youth Protection Program, this session will help you examine whether your youth protection policies, procedures, and practices are working as intended. Through short content segments, reflection questions, peer discussion, and a priority-setting activity, participants will identify strengths, challenges, and one practical area for improvement.

The workshop will explore:

• Summer lessons as assessment
• Policy clarity and real-world use
• Background check processes
• Training effectiveness
• Monitoring practices
• Reporting expectations
• Communication plans
• Response procedures
• Institutional buy-in and awareness
• Priority-setting and next steps

You will leave having assessed your youth protection program from summer learnings & set priorities for the year ahead to help you know that your program is working and continuing to improve.