Survey Data Information

At Cabrini Connections youth and adults are both volunteers. Thus, our first measure of success is recruiting 75-80 youth and 80-90 volunteers by October of each year. Our next measure is motivating them to attend regularly (we aim for 80% average) each week, and our goal is that 80% or more of teens and volunteers are still active at the end of the school year.  As we start the next school year our goal is that 85% of the teens from the previous year, and 60% or more of the volunteers will be on the roster by mid October.

If we repeat this year after year, some of the 7th and 8th graders who join us one year will be finishing high school five or six  years later. Our history shows that more than 38% of 500 teens have participated from 3 to 7 consecutive years since we started the program in 1994.

However, we also have begun to use the Internet to do surveys that help us understand our impact in different ways.  One of our goals is to build eLearning habits among students and volunteers, so that when they are no longer active at Cabrini Connections, they can  still be connected to us and our volunteers via our web sites.  Thus, one goal of the surveys is to build full participation. 

The survey will be offered in January and May. Our goal is to show improvement from  one survey to the next, and one year to the next. We'll post results so you can learn from this  information as we learn from it.