WSA_Youth and Family Master Plan Phase I - September 2009

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The survey data from the database of community- serving organizations was gathered by telephone interviews in 2008 (January-December). As explained in the Methodology section above, the Santa Ana Police Department survey of 178 organizations' responses were recorded in 2008.20 Community agencies were asked a series of questions related to their agency characteristics (size of organization, clients served, location, hours of operation) and services and program details (type of program, evaluation methods, partners and funders). From the database of 178, the data was cleaned and coded, leaving 164 viable, unduplicated organizations. Only 3 of the organizations surveyed reported serving only adults;161 (98%} have services for youth. Of these organizations, 71 (43%) reported serving only youth (defined asunder 18 years of age). Table 4. Number and percentage of organizations by age groups served 0-5 years 92 56 6-12 years 126 77 13-18 years 145 88 19-28 years 90 55 over 29 years 71 43 Seniors 69 42 *nof exclusive Types of services The following data analysis was based on the 161 viable, unduplicated organizations that explicitly reported serving Santa Ana youth. Table 5. Number of youth-serving organizations by type of program model Health Career Recreation Mentoring Faith- Counseling Athletics Education based # of total ~ 28 17 59 33 33 50 31 84 organizations of total 17% 11% 37% 10% 13% 31% 19% 52% organizations* Of organizations serving youth, over half reported using only one ortwo program models. The remainder of the organizations used multiple methods to engage youth. As mentioned above, the focus of our analysis was on the physical activity and athletic opportunities available to Santa Ana youth. Overall, 40% (64 organizations) of the youth-serving organizations offered some type of recreation or athletics to their participants. The following list identifies how many of the Santa Ana youth-serving organizations responded that they provide some type of recreation activity: • 59 recreation 31 athletic 20 The SAPD conducted 155 telephone surveys in 2008; this was augmented by another 23 telephone surveys conducted by Ersoylu Consulting of organizations in the Youth Alternatives Collaborative and participants at the 2008 Youth Expo. The same protocol was used for all 178 surveys.