Youth Focus has an active CQI program. All of our programs regularly monitor a number of critical areas seeking opportunities to improve our services. An important part of finding ways to improve our services is feedback from our staff, clients or the community as a whole.
If you have suggestions about improving the quality of our services at Youth Focus or there are services needed for youth that are not available in the community, please contact us at 336-274-5909 or send us an email at: CHodierne@Youthfocus.org. Click here to view our latest: Continuous Quality Improvement Reports
Our programs all have annual goals and measure outcomes. To see the results of this past year's Agency Goal Assessment and see how your program fared, click on the link for: FY10/11 Agency Goal Assessment
Two improvements we have made in our program are highlighted below:
OUR ADOPTED STREAM
Youth Focus has an active Youth Advisory Panel that advises us on the operation of our services, ways to improve our services, and new services that are needed in the community. During a recent meeting our young people indicated that as an agency we needed to help provide them with more opportunities to participate in community service work. We did not want to miss this opportunity to reinforce such a positive value, and so as an agency, we are now participating in the City of Greensboro's Adopt-A-Stream Program. We have committed to regularly cleaning a section of stream just behind the O'Brien-Revolution Baseball Field, off Yanceyville Street.
Music Motivates:
David Coleman, Assistant Director of Youth Focus pictured below attended a workshop that emphasized the importance of recreational/cultural activities to interest and motivate our clients. As a result of attending this workshop and feedback from our clients on how we could improve our services he initiated a program to help students in our day treatment program compose, perform and record their own music. The result - their own CD! To listen, click audio player below.
The lyrics to their song are listed below. Unfortunately confidentiality rules do not allow us to identify our two talented musicians.
THE PLACE TO BE
I choose the right path, but go the wrong way
Choose the right hours, but the wrong day
See if right seems wrong, but wrong seems right
If right was always wrong Then wrong was what I liked
I’m on a mission like James Bond
Finding my way home
Life gets harder like naps to a comb
God knows I toss, turn, burn
Body gets weaker
Start to spit, words burst like a speaker
It gets deeper
Hold up – Moment of silence
Please don’t speak, stop the violence
As we get real quiet
We re-evaluate for a violence diet
Why gangsters and writers
See look - they come together as a nation –
A Youth Focus Corporation
A nation for re-evaluation
I’m getting impatient, as time is a waitin’
People judge us by what they see
We can’t expect the world to
Understand the real me
We gain our knowledge, so many places
But we hide our feelings and keep the truth off our faces
Mell Burton tries to get us to learn
And give us the skills to discern
For our future depends
On the road we choose
If we take the wrong road –
We stand to lose
Mell Burton is the place to be
When public schools can’t deal with me
I stayed in trouble and
Needed some help
So they took me to Mell Burton
To better myself
They use a level system
To help me see
How I’m acting and what they expect of me
