Youth Impact

Youth Impact’s mission is to connect youth to proven life-changing information. Our vision is to enable over 1 million youth to thrive through delivery of multiple evidence-based programs. We are at an inflection point in our growth: we have over 300 staff, 3 programs in health and education, a cumulative reach of over 250,000 youth, and have worked in 20+ countries. Our culture is unique: we are always learning, have a dynamic, youthful team, a fierce commitment to measurement and evidence, and work hand-in-hand with the government. Choices is an effective evidence-based 90-minute intervention encouraging youth to make healthy and informed relationship choices. The program reveals the unknown risks of dating older partners and encourages youth to make healthy relationship choices. When delivered by peer educators, the program has been shown to reduce teenage pregnancy, a proxy for HIV risk, by up to 40%. We partner with the government to implement the program at national scale. Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is an evidence-based, remedial education approach, targeting basic literacy and numeracy skills by assessing and grouping students according to learning needs instead of by age or grade. The program is proven to increase numeracy skills, with up to 89% of participants learning at least one mathematical operation. As a TaRL Innovation Hub, we radiate our lessons learnt and actively support organisations in Namibia, South Africa and The Philippines with the implementation of TaRL. ConnectEd is a targeted, phone-based tutoring program shown to significantly improve basic numeracy skills. Over a period of 8 weeks, 59% of students learn at least 1 mathematical operation. Rigorously tested in 6 countries, ConnectEd can support students who cannot access in-person school or attend school, but need additional support. Beyond Botswana, we partner with governments and NGOs to bring ConnectEd to learners in disrupted settings around the world.