[YL] Incentives for Client Retention?

[Sophia Mansori]

Last year the America Connects Consortium facilitated an online panel titled
³Recruitment, Retention, and Rewards.²  Practitioners from community
technology centers shared their strategies for attracting and keeping
students in their programs.  You can read a summary of the panel and access
all the emails from the discussion on our web site, here:
http://www.americaconnects.net/learn/retention.asp

I hope this is useful!

-sophia

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Sophia Mansori 
America Connects Consortium
Education Development Center
smansori at edc.org
617.618.2113
 



From: Christy Beighe-Byrne <christy_leap at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <youthlearn at milhouse.edc.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 09:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
To: <youthlearn at milhouse.edc.org>
Subject: [YL] Incentives for Client Retention?

Hello all,
I am the Program Manager of a GED Training Program that works with youthful
offenders, ages 16-21.  Currently we offer the following program incentives:

 
Program Incentives:   Clients receive $4.00 to supplement the cost of lunch
and at the end of the day, clients receive two (2) CTA Transit Cards to go
home and to return the next day.  Additionally, YEP is piloting a program
called, $afer Dollars.   The $afer Dollars plan is an incentive program that
rewards students for attendance, effective use of time in the classroom,
increases on TABE and Practice GED tests, and other positive forms of
behavior.  The rewards come in the form of $afer Dollars which can
periodically be used in a YEP auction to bid on gift cards, CDs, DVDs, movie
tickets, etc
..
 
However, I am wondering if anyone out there offers incentive
programs/incentives that are not monetarily draining to the budget?  Please
advise.  
 

Christy Beighe-Byrne, Program Manager
Safer Foundation-Youth Empowerment Program
609 W. Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Office: (312) 575-3270
Fax: (312) 627-1624


Christy Beighe-Byrne


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