During every BYP school year term we do “Goal Settings” with every youth from each team. A team leader will pull one youth aside if they aren’t working on homework or participating in discussion group and have a one on one meeting with them.

Each of these meeting take about 10 to 15 minutes in which we discuss their short term goals. Each year the worksheet may vary depending on the team leader that is leading the meetings but we’re working on creating a “Goal Setting” binder that has more consistency to it rather than switching it up every year.

As of now the worksheet that the youth fill out is geared more for high school teens. It helps them to focus and keep their minds on their academic, behavioral, and personal goals while still dealing with working, going to school, and other activities.

After they choose a goal for each category the youth brainstorm things they can do or work on to achieve the goals they set. They have 2 weeks to reach these goals, at the end of the first week they meet again and go over their goals as a reminder and talk about the progress they’ve made.

At the end of the 2nd week the same youth and team leader meet and discuss whether or not they reached their goal and why/how they did it. At the end of the school year term we will discuss how they did overall setting/meeting their goals and leave advice for either themselves or future youth.