The National Mentoring Center at Education Northwest offers customized evaluation services designed to help youth mentoring programs measure the impact of their services and improve their program design. We can conduct both qualitative and quantitative evaluations, as well as provide technical assistance to help mentoring programs manage, use, understand, and communicate evaluation data to further program goals and sustainability.

Specific services can include:

• Program planning
• Grant-writing assistance
• Instrument development, survey design, and measurement models
• Data collection, analysis, and presentation
• Formative evaluation (feedback and consultation to improve outcomes)
• Summative evaluation (measurement and documentation of program impact)
• Development of program management databases and Web integration
• Development of reports and presentations to convey findings to multiple audiences