Latin American Youth Center (LAYC), a youth development agency based in Washington DC, has been using a web-based non profit management software solution to more effectively serve the community that they have tasked themselves with helping. This non profit management software system is specially designed for organizations just like LAYC who want to more effectively track efforts to outcomes and optimize program impact as part of a performance management framework.

Case management software is a popular solution for many non profit organizations who wish to streamline the process by which they serve the participants under their care. LAYC has provided a great example of just how effective using such software can be.

Before we discuss how LAYC used the software for the betterment of the people under the care, let's first learn a little more about the organization.

Originally founded in 1968, the LAYC was started to help immigrant Latino youth. In the years since, however, its role has expanded to aiding low income youths and families of all backgrounds in the District of Columbia, as well as areas in Maryland, like Montgomery County and Prince George's County.

LAYC uses non profit management software so that it can offer and manage a number of programs in five different areas that it believes teach critical skills to young people. These areas include Educational Enhancement, Workforce Investment, Social Services, Art + Media, and Advocacy.

The 50+ multi-lingual, culturally sensitive programs that are offered in each of these areas teach program participants important skills like computer literacy, college preparation and healthy recreation and fitness while encouraging self-expression and creativity.

The programs that LAYC provides also work to foster job readiness, life skills training and strengthening of families. Moreover, The advocates that operate LAYC's programs work to influence public policy related to the social systems that affect low-income immigrants and minority youth throughout the area. 

Program managers throughout LAYC integrate specialized non profit management software into their many programs in order to help them improve the quality of life for their program participants.

With it being no secret that improving a community through social programs is no easy task, the LAYC, and other organizations like it, have found that this specialized case management software has allowed them to more easily meet the needs of their primary demographic focus, low income families and at-risk youths, while tuning and refining their methods according to effectiveness that has been displayed.

Take the organization's Promotor Pathway Program (PPP) as an example of what not for profit software can help an organization do.

Having been launched in 2008, this program works with youth who face particularly daunting life challenges to help them reconnect with their communities and successfully transition to adulthood. While the Promotors are not considered case managers, they use non profit management software to track daily efforts and progress over time.

This includes, but isn't limited to, acts like encouragement of program participation and connecting youth to referral services that that can help them improve their quality of life. Over the long term of the interaction between a youth and their Promotor, the two often remain in touch with each other for up to six years.

In that time span, the aim of the program is to help the youth obtain skills necessary for a happy and healthy life—skills  that include a post-secondary education and employment that could potentially lead to a career.

The non profit management software that the LAYC uses has helped gauge the effectiveness of the PPP insofar as being able to compare youth who have worked with Promotors to youth who haven't. The effectiveness shown through the use of this social services software has encouraged the viability of the PPP as a model to be replicated in other areas.

Besides using non profit management software to extend its reach and implement programs in other areas, the LAYC has also been able to use it to illustrate the effectiveness of its programs to both the people who are responsible for funding the program and those who are responsible for influencing the public policies that have an effect on how the Youth Center operates.

The role that the human services software used by LAYC is especially important because it can retain detailed information on program participants and their interactions with personnel like Promotors and case managers.

With the length of a program and the timing of reporting playing huge roles in how the success or failure of a social program is determined, it makes sense for a community organization to want to keep records that are as detailed as possible.

The information retained by the reporting abilities of non profit management software not only help to accurately assess and meet the needs of the participants but prove the program's adequacy as well. This is a large determining factor in whether or not many social programs receive they funding they need to continue supporting the disadvantaged people who are under their sphere of influence.

The LAYC, and other organizations like it, work to make their communities better places by turning their participants into contributing members of society. By using non profit management software, everyone involved with social programs like what the Latin American Youth Center provides benefits in the name of a better tomorrow.

If you want to know more about the Latin American Youth Center, then click here to go to their home page.

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