The Boston Youth Arts Evaluation Project

How do youth arts organizations best measure their impact on the teens they serve--in the short term AND five or ten years down the road? The Boston Youth Arts Evaluation Project (BYAEP) is comprised of the core collaborators Raw Art Works, ZUMIX, The Theater Offensive, Hyde Square Task Force, and Medicine Wheel Productions. BYAEP’s task over three years was to research best practices in youth arts evaluation, to design and pilot a common evaluation framework, and to publish and present the findings.