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Youth Development Indicators

Research shows that the best way to enhance long-term public safety is to provide court-involved youth with the tools they need to successfully transition into adulthood and away from re-offending. The developmental strengths and needs of each youth are different, and often are determined by the youth’s age and developmental stage. As a result, DYRS does not have a “one size fits all” approach to measuring youth development. 

For some youth, attaining a high school credential may be the next important milestone, for other, older youth, the top priority may be workforce training. DYRS is also committed to tracking progress on less tangible developmental assets, such as establishing positive peer and adult relationships. As the agency is able to reliably and consistently track data on new areas of youth development, those data points will be added to this website.

Youth Attaining Workforce Experience

The number of unique youth attaining a professional certificate (such as a “Safe Serve Certification” or “Copper Cabling Certification”), an internship, or unsubsidized work, through a DYRS established program, is provided below.  The chart below does not include youth who attained certificates, internships or employment independent from DYRS workforce development programming.

  FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017
Professional Certificate Earned 0 23 117 106 92 128 33 37
Internships 18 37 132          
Unsubsidized Employment 0 5 51 38 35 17 33 13

The following tables present data on youth educational outcomes. The average youth enters his or her commitment to DYRS with few, if any, high school credits and tests at the fourth- to fifth- grade level in English and math. Most have experienced multiple failures in school. In any particular fiscal year, the great majority of DYRS youth are either beyond high-school age, too young to have finished high school, or not sufficiently advanced academically to attain their high school credential.

DYRS Youth Achieving High School Diploma or a GED

The table below represents the number of unique youth attaining a GED or high school diploma in the District of Columbia, by fiscal year. Data made available by the Office of the State Superintendent for Education (OSSE). These figures do not include youth who earned a high school diploma or GED outside of the District of Columbia.

Fiscal Year # of Youth
FY2008 17
FY2009 14
FY2010 23
FY2011 28
FY2012 48
FY2013 18
FY2014 32
FY2015 5
FY2016 19
FY2017 13

DYRS Youth Achieving Higher Education

The table below represents the number of unique youth who enrolled in post-secondary education while under DYRS supervision, by fiscal year.

Fiscal Year # of Youth
FY2010 5
FY2011 6
FY2012 8
FY2013 24
FY2014 22
FY2015 24
FY2016 13
FY2017 4

Youth Served through DC YouthLink, by Service Domain

The table below represents the number of unique youth connected to services in each developmental domain while enrolled in DC YouthLink, by fiscal year. Because an individual youth may have an enrollment that spans multiple fiscal years, the total count of unique youth served by the initiative may be smaller than the sum of youth served in individual fiscal years

  Relationships Work Education Health Creativity Community
FY2010 221 67 93 79 10 2
FY2011 517 200 265 190 12 3
FY2012 390 216 165 196 17 28
FY2013 681 1155 684 527 154 158
FY2014 530 974 661 588 102 191
Total 1478 3507 1199 1437 253 455