Young Musicians Foundation Specialist VISTA

Young Musicians Foundation Specialist VISTA

YMF’s mission is to disrupt systems of inequity through healing-based music education, creative career pathways, and multigenerationalcommunity engagement. We provide tuition-free arts programming, instruments,technology, and creative opportunities to children, youth, young adults, and families,primarily from historically underserved communities across Los Angeles. Through culturally responsive instruction and hands-on career experiences, YMF helps students build artistic and technical skills, and access pathways to continued education,employment, and leadership with the support of the Ameri Corps VISTA project

Member Duties :

• 1. Research best practices for engaging TAY, opportunity youth, young creatives, and young adults interested in music and media arts.
• 2. Develop youth centered outreach materials, including flyers, digital graphics, and email templates, and direct messaging suggestions.
• 3. Create a system to track where and how TAY students learn about YMFand which outreach methods lead to enrollment.
• 4. Develop recommendations to improve the class enrollment process for young adults from the first point of contact through registration.
• 1. Review existing attendance, enrollment, and re-enrollment data to identify patterns in retention.
• 2. Support the development of feedback tools, such as surveys,focus group questions, and exit forms, to better understand TAY needs and experiences.
• 3. Analyze feedback to identify barriers to retention, such as scheduling, transportation, communication, etc.
• 4.Create re-engagement strategies for students who stop attending