Dream a Dream empowers young people from vulnerable backgrounds to overcome adversity and flourish in a fast-changing world, using a creative life skills approach. Dream a Dream has crafted a pedagogical method and a process – a science that allows for a redefinition of adverse circumstances by changing the lens through which the past is viewed. Our programmes seek to improve outcomes for students by creating positive learning experiences through a collaborative approach that targets young people, parents, teachers, mentors, and volunteers.

Currently, we work with 10,000 young people a year through our two innovation labs – After School Life Skills Programme(ASLSP) and Career Connect Programme(CCP), have trained over 7700 teachers/educators from 206 partners impacting over 192,500 children and have impacted over 1 Million children through strategic partnerships with state governments in Delhi and Jharkhand. We work on a strong collaborative approach with local charities, corporates, volunteers, governments, expert consultants and a host of national and international strategic partners.

Dream a Dream works through three key programmes, ASLSP and CCP which directly impacts young people and the Teacher Development Programme (TDP) which indirectly impacts young people through teachers. In ASLSP and CCP, we use a creative life skills approach where young people can make better choices and become more meaningfully engaged. TDP engages teachers to indirectly impact young people and is designed to nurture empathy, expand their creativity, develop listening and validation skills and the ability to share with authenticity while also learning facilitation skills.

This report represents the impact evaluation of the life skills approach implemented across all the three programmes of Dream a Dream for the year 2018-2019. The purpose of this report is to document the best practices and innovations to provide inputs and insights for national and international level policies and programmes in life skills education. Further, the purpose of the study was to provide a qualitative and quantitative assessment and analysis of the processes and results of the programme as per the programme objectives.

Major findings include: 1) All three programmes (ASLSP, CCP, TDP) showed improvement in the life skills of young people. 2) The improvement in scores was statistically significant for all three programmes. 3) Male and female participants improved in each of the five life skills measured. 4) The Last Mile Support Programme (LMSP) showed that 97.6% of the young people were meaningfully engaged. 5) Life skilling teachers through TDP helped in improving the life skills of students. Through the teachers, life skills of students have improved drastically.

Based on the evidence of the impact evaluation, it is clear that all programmes are on-track to achieve its intended results. The findings of the study indicate that the results of all intervention strategies were effective in developing and nurturing life skills among the participants.

You can read the complete report here – https://dreamadream.org/reports/impactreports/ImpactReport18-19.pdf