Technical Assistance

The Weikart Center offers comprehensive technical assistance (TA) for the Youth Program Quality Intervention process. We provide TA supports at three levels through phone, email, or onsite consulting:

We help network leaders:

• Plan a data collection rollout, addressing issues such as accountability messages, network capacities, identifying trainings that align with plans.
• Develop local capacities for external data collection and training.
• Support ongoing data collection and program improvement—we apply our experience with dozens of improvement projects to help you with all the issues that arise.
• Connect with other network professionals.

We help program leaders:

• Lead a staff team through program self-assessment.
• Collect, compile, and interpret program performance data to identify improvement needs and professional development priorities.
• Lead program improvement planning with staff.
• Use the online scores reporter for entering assessment data and improvement plans.
• Monitor and report on performance changes.
• Conduct Observation and Reflection with staff.
• Effectively use staff meetings to focus on quality.

We help program staff:

• Through brief, on-site in-service training used to re-introduce a concept or an idea from the Youth PQA or the Youth Worker Training Summit.
• With technical support for online training.
• Through co-observation of program sessions with program leaders.