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May 14, 2019 – My Juliana is on the spotlight again.. appeared on a promotional social media campaign to raise awareness of combating the long-term impact of poverty through data-driven programs at CI.

www.children.org/see-the-impact/charity-programs/what-we-measure

Quoting..

"Increased secondary school completion:  We measure success by identifying the percent of sponsored CI graduates who have reached that milestone by age 24.

We measure the number of teens in our program aged 18–24 who have:

- Increased marketable skills, measured by the percent of teens actively developing skills through university or vocational training programs. For younger teens, we measure enrollment. For young adults, we measure completion.

- Enhanced access to the local job market, measured by the percent of program youth (18- to 24-year-olds) who demonstrate knowledge and skills to access the job market in their communities."

My understanding was that once the children graduate at age 19, CI will have no contacts with the youth, thus gathering such data up to the age of 24 puzzled me – can CI elaborate on how this is done beyond age 19.

- Does CI keep in touch with all youth until they reach 24?

- If so, is there a mechanism in which a sponsor who wants to continue providing support beyond graduation for the youth in pursuit of higher education or vocational training?

We don't have contact with all the youth who leave or graduate from the program. However, there are many graduate who still reside in the program area or have younger sibs/cousins/volunteer parents, etc. involved in the program, and therefore it is easier to engage with them to gather measurable information.  

As you know, we've been looking at ways to either expand sponsorship until youth have completed vocational/university or, a way to help them with education only after CI graduation.  I know it seems like a long time has passed since we first began looking at ways to expand, but we truly are trying. It’s not an easy or small problem to solve and has many implications which iswhy we’re still working on it.  We’re closer than ever to having somethingfor youth and sponsors.  Just don’t know when it would be available.