Outcomes

Roca has evolved into an outcomes-oriented organization. In order to ensure that our work is of value and is effective in helping young people achieve positive outcomes, we are as relentless and rigorous in the pursuit of measuring outcomes as we are in engaging youth and young adults. Roca's web-based system, Efforts to Outcomes (ETO) captures measurable data related to a young person’s self sufficiency through recording: attendance records, academic skill gains as measured through standardized tests, progress in transitional employment programming, job placement and retention. For example, every young person participating in Roca’s Alternative Adult Education class has a record in ETO where the teacher records the student’s time spent in class, stage of change related to readiness for learning, content covered during the learning time, and the methodology used to deliver the content. This information record gives teachers the capacity to pick up right where they left off regardless of the consistency of the young person’s attendance.

For more information about Roca's ETO model, please contact Anisha Chablani, Deputy Director of Roca at 617-889-5210 x257 or Anicha@rocainc.com.