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A TOOL FOR YOUR TEAM
A Readiness Check-Up for Your Program
Readiness means having the knowledge, skills, experiences, relationships, and support to take a meaningful next step. For a program, the question is how intentionally it builds and connects those conditions.
Are we creating opportunities or simply providing activities?
Can we demonstrate how the activities and experiences we offer expand participants' awareness, influence their decisions, and prepare them for meaningful next steps?
Are our learning experiences intentionally connected?
How do exposure, exploration, education, and real-world experiences build upon one another rather than operate as independent programs or events?
Are participants developing readiness that can be demonstrated?
Beyond attendance, participation, and completion, what evidence shows participants are developing and applying the knowledge, skills, confidence, and competencies needed to advance?
Do we know where participants lose momentum?
Where do participants encounter barriers, experience disconnected services, or struggle to transition between learning, experiences, and opportunities? Who is responsible for helping them navigate those transitions?
Can we demonstrate that our programs lead somewhere?
What evidence connects participation to meaningful next opportunities, including continued education, credentials, employment, advancement, or other defined measures of success?
Use it: Mark each Clear / Needs Work / Don’t Know and add one piece of evidence. Choose one gap, name who will lead the improvement, and agree on a next step.
Then answer three closing questions:
Where is our greatest disconnect between activity and participant progress?
What evidence do we need to better understand that disconnect?
What is one change we could make in the next 90 days?
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