Los Angeles Performance Partnership Pilot (LAP3) Flash Report Revised 3/10/17

The Los Angeles Pilot Performance Partnership (LAP3) initiative represents a profound change for how youth services are delivered in Los Angeles City and County. In our view, this profound change is taking place at two levels, at the policy level and the operational level. At the policy level, newly formed partnerships between City and County Agencies, the federal government, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations are creating novel ways to change policies and relationships to create a new, more collaborative way to serve disconnected youth. At the operational level, City of Los Angeles’ YouthSource Centers (YSCs) – who operate WIOA youth services under contract with Economic and Workforce Development Department (EWDD) – through LAP3 are working to integrate the delivery of services with a wide array of County, City, and nonprofit organizations to reinvent services to disconnected youth. Our team at Cal State Northridge has been charged with evaluating the LAP3 innovation. This “Flash Report” provides our initial insights and ideas about how implementation of the LAP3 model has gone in the first six months (July 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016). Essentially, this report seeks to accomplish four things: 1. Provide a basic description of the youth served in the first six months of the program. 2. Identify best practices that have moved P3 towards its vision at the policy and operational level. 3. Identify barriers and issues that emerged at the policy and operational level that need to be overcome to realize the LAP3 vision. 4. Make recommendations for the near and mid-term to improve the implementation of LA P3.