Bruin Youth Center

Hey guys, Jessica Taber here to talk to you about

the bruin You center, you got some great news.

But first, let's touch on the objective of our program.

We wish to provide a positive environment for the local

Children to go and to grow and to learn things

and to work with local volunteers and caretakers to learn

the skills needed to become a productive citizen in our

society. Come back to begin our program.

We needed to secure substantial funding, which we did through

meeting with local clubs like the Qantas and the Amvets.

Um, we're so grateful for their support.

We also needed to acquire real estate for the actual

center. Um, we decided to purchase a historical building in

downtown Hartford City and have been working to rehabilitate the

building to use for our center.

And it is working out fabulously.

We have actually made the community very happy because we're

not tearing down anymore buildings in the downtown area.

Um, our groundbreaking did happen and in a late spring,

early summer um and we are definitely on track to

complete our project within our timeline.

As I stated, we are on track with our goals

and our objectives.

So how do I know while we perform an internal

analysis and compare our goals with the actual work would

prevent completed?

Here are milestones.

Um we wanted to begin back in december, which we

did. Um we started seeking funding, forming our board, getting

the idea floating around the town to make sure that

this was a good idea and this is what the

community wanted and would support.

Um Like I said, the groundbreaking was in the late

spring, early summer and we are anticipated to complete by

the end of the year and we'll have a New

Year's Eve event and we are very excited to start

with that.

Yeah. Um, here's our gant chart, this shows our progress

or what we wanted to complete.

I can assure you that we are well along in

this complete build phase um since we didn't have to

build from scratch, we were able to use and already

constructed building and just make alterations and rehabilitations to that

property. The burn down chart is just another representation of

where we are expected to be versus where we are.

We are expected to be right here, but we are

actually further along on the orange line to complete sooner.

Another way to analyze a project is to see how

the project has impacted those around you, those in the

community. Um, sorry about this project impact.

It has been amazing to watch the community come together

and support this project.

Um, I've grown up in this community and I've heard

buzz about a community center, a youth center, more youth

opportunities for us and for our Children, but nobody's ever

stepped up to do anything.

So that was my major goal here was to to

fill that need that nobody else has really wanted to

take over.

Uh The youth have just loved the place they love

coming in and Uh huh.

Yeah. Learning.

We've set up some some sample shops over at some

local churches, just just to see where what the youth

are liking these days, what kind of programs they have

more interested before We invest a lot into our program.

Yeah, Okay.

Throughout the program, a project I should say we have

made note of some of the things that have went

well as well as some of the things that have

not gone so well.

One of the things that I have learned is that

we should definitely pre plan our programs.

We should do more surveys, have more meetings um include

the youth groups that are actually already formed within the

churches. Um And then also get some input from the

Children outside of the youth groups where like what do

they want to learn?

What do they need to learn?

Do they want to cook more?

Do they want to play games more?

Like where where should we focus our programming right now?

And that would be a continual thing that we would

we would revamp as the needs and the desires of

the Children change throughout the the years.

Yeah. Um Why do we keep track of the lessons

learned? Well, you figure out what the deuce and don't

sar you just know don't do that again or?

Yeah, this this worked real well.

Let's continue to implement this plan like this.

Um You also get more ideas.

People um People say, Hey, instead of folding the papers

this way I folded in this way and it saved

me 10 seconds per mailing.

Um, so that would be a good thing to implement

for the rest of the people because that would save

you 10 seconds across the board.

All right.

Like I said, saved resources.

How do we keep track of lessons learned?

Um, just have a log a document that people just

say um, on July five I decided that folding the

envelope or folding the paper this way saved me 10

seconds. Um, and then they initial it and put it

away and then at the meeting, you guys pull that

out and you share that with everybody.

Another way to do that, If people would rather do

a search for anonymously, you can do it by survey

or email, but always have that line of communication open

with your project teams and customers because you just sharing

ideas is awesome.

Just a great way to do that.

Um, Sprint reviews in retrospect, this is a different way

to uh, to review how your program or project is

going. Um these are regular, they're part of the agile

process, um and they're often hands on for employees to

learn from.

I do like this way.

Um like I said, you get the employee input, you

have workshops, you sit down, you say, hey, this is

what's working for me, This is not what's working for

me and you work as a team to figure out

the best plan to fix it.

Just wonderful.

Wonderful way to do things.

Yeah. Um, so we're towards the end of our project,

so now it's time to finish up.

Yeah, let's talk about the feedback.

External feed pack is important regarding performance.

I know a lot of employees and team members get

a little antsy and nervous when it comes to this,

but you have to take this feedback and you've got

to use it to grow.

You can't take it to heart and take it as

they're insulting you because I'm sure there are great things

you're doing.

You just gotta take it and say, okay, I forgot

to seal the envelope this time.

So next time I'm going to double check and make

sure they still that envelope to help that process instead

of being hurt or upset me and they're mad at

me because I forgot to send that envelope, blah blah,

blah blah.

You need to take accountability and learn from your feedback

that it will only help you grow as a person.

Now that you've listened to your feedback from your clients,

it's time to finish up on the final report.

Um, like I said before, my project is ahead of

schedule, which is very unusual.

We just got lucky and what was able to purchase

and already built building as opposed to going from the

ground up.

Um, I'm overall the project has done substantially well.

We've received positive feedback from all the community members, business

owners, um, corporations, um, out of town people.

We even had a press report, which was pretty cool.

I didn't know that was gonna happen.

Um, I'm just really looking forward to being able to

open our program to the community within the next couple

of months and I appreciate your support along the way.

And I look forward to providing you with another update

in a couple weeks.

Thank you.

Bye.

Bruin Youth Center

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