Impact Reports: YMCA Community Support Services

By combining a deep understanding of social issues with quality program data, our experienced Communication and Research & Evaluation departments create resources useful for establishing best practices and educating stakeholders to guide optimal services for families and children. Use the links below to jump to a specific topic area:

Quality Early Learning
Family Stability and Connections for Youth
Economic Stability and Mobility Among Under-Resourced Populations
Social Issue Summaries

Quality Early Learning

We strengthen communities by fighting for access to quality child care so children enter school ready to learn and thrive and parents can continue to earn wages that keep families strong.

Child Care Bridge Model for Families Experiencing Homelessness — This issue brief emphasizes that child care is critical in ending a family's homelessness experience.
Child Care Dashboard — Our Child Care Data Dashboard provides up-to-date information on the affordability, accessibility, and economic impacts of child care in San Diego County, making it an essential resource for local policymakers and providers who are advocating for positive change.
Economic Child Care Data by Legislative District — These one-page documents present data on the financial subsidies and payments rendered to families and child care providers, respectively, in California Legislative Districts.
Family Child Care Provider Whitepaper — This issue brief examines the important role family child care providers play in child development and highlights the challenges and successes of these early care professionals in San Diego County.
Foster Care Bridge Impact Report — This impact report presents data and results from the YMCA’s state-funded Emergency Bridge program for foster youth in need of child care.
An Inclusive Framework - Designing and Implementing Universal Prekindergarten in California - This inclusive framework serves as a decision-making model for school districts, policymakers, and community leaders to create innovative TK programs that benefit and uplift the entire school community through a whole child, whole family, whole community approach.
State of Childcare During COVID-19 - Analysis and results of a survey to determine the challenges facing child care providers and the early education sector during COVID-19.
Supporting Child Care Providers with School-Age Distance Learning - Analysis and results of a survey to determine the challenges child care providers face, and identify resources needed to ensure children are able to successfully engage in distance learning.
YMCA CRS Responds to COVID-19 - A data dashboard that captures how the agency quickly pivoted to support essential workers, families, and child care providers during a public health emergency.

Family Stability and Connections for Youth

We work with families and individuals to break cycles of conflict and instability and prevent disconnection in the form of youth homelessness, family conflict, and placement instability for foster youth.

Kinship Support Services — This impact report presents data and findings to highlight the needs of families in the YMCA’s County of San Diego-funded program to support kinship caregivers and the children in their care.
Specialized Permanency Services — This data brief discusses findings from the YMCA’s program to increase social connections for youth in foster care.
Connections Project — This impact report presents data and results from the YMCA’s federally funded program to increase the well-being of foster youth and introduces the YMCA-developed CAAVE service delivery approach.
Camp Trailblazers 2019 This impact report presents data and results from the YMCA's first-ever weekend camp for LGBTQ+ young adults.

Economic Stability and Mobility Among Under-Resourced Populations

We connect youth with meaningful career prospects and ensure all families have the opportunity to remain in the workforce and build career mobility, regardless of socio-economic status or barriers to employment.

Family Child Care Provider Whitepaper — This issue brief examines the important role family child care providers play in child development and highlights the challenges and successes of these early care professionals in San Diego County.
Developmental Relationships for Youth Experiencing Homelessness — This issue brief, co-authored with the National Network 4 Youth, outlines the importance of relationships to help youth heal from trauma and end a homeless experience.
Neuro-informed Services for Youth Experiencing Homelessness — This issue brief analyzes the importance of a neuro-informed approach in working with youth and outlines recommended approaches to end youth homelessness.
Evaluation of the Connections 2020 Program — This evaluation report by our partner, Harder+Company Community Research, presents data and outcomes from the Connections 2020 program and recommendations for implementing relational work readiness programs with transition-aged youth.
Foster Care Bridge Impact Report — This impact report presents data and results from the YMCA’s state-funded Emergency Bridge program for foster youth in need of child care.
Child Care Bridge Model for Families Experiencing Homelessness — This issue brief emphasizes that child care is critical in ending a family's homelessness experience.
Economic Child Care Data by Legislative District — These one-page documents present data on the financial subsidies and payments rendered to families and child care providers, respectively, in California Legislative Districts.
YMCA YFS Responds to COVID-19 — A data dashboard that captures how the agency quickly pivoted to support youth experiencing homelessness during a public health emergency.

Social Issue Summaries

Working with families to end poverty and heal from trauma puts us at the intersection of multiple, overlapping community issues. Brief summaries of some of those issues and other organizational highlights are included below:

Questions? Contact Us

If you have any questions about these documents or would like to speak with a representative from the YMCA of San Diego County's Community Support Services departments for partnership opportunities, email us.

YMCA CSS Impact Reports