
Our Community Impact Model
SparkShare leads a four-phase model of community change that – over the course of one year – moves from identifying challenges, to building partnerships, to implementing solutions.
The Impact Model
We LISTEN
SparkShare does amazing work giving teens the opportunity to have a voice, to listen to what they have to say and actually taking action
-- Latrese, Employer, Haley House
We SPARK
We CONVENE
We ACTIVATE
With a core group of 20 young people across 3-4 anchor organizations we:
Identify Barriers to Opportunity
Map Community Resources
Learn to talk about challenges in a constructive, solution-focused way
We help the Youth Spark ideas and identify and energize new partners (8-10) by:
Creating a vision of change for their community
Engaging organizations who can collaborate with our youth
Helping the youth use their voice and experience to generate solutions
We bring youth and organizations together through Partner Meetings and Community Summits to:
Commit to a shared agenda and goals
Help young people learn how to partner with adults in their community
Develop specific ideas for action
Our partnerships move to action. We facilitate this by:
Working alongside our youth and organizations as they implement their plans
Weaving skill development into partnership programs, ensuring our youth gain the leadership and life skills they need
Leading ongoing planning, process improvement, and continued development of goals/actions