8) What incentives, if any, do you use to help retain youth participation?

• food - snacks, coffee etc
• stickers (yes, even with youths and adults)
• flexibility and negotiation re: learning goals
• nurturing and caring attitudes
• money for transportation and emergency needs
• finding youth jobs
• promise of diploma and links to future goals
• see Remarks section re: debate around money as incentive

9) What are your program's identified barriers to youth-at-risk participation?

• both groups decided that this list was the same as the list compiled in questions 6 and 7

10) What does your organization do to remove or change those barriers? Does it work?

• increase accessibility of location (this has worked particularly well for the Tracks Future Cafe program in Collingwood)
• try to cross-refer to other youth agencies to meet needs beyond one's own program
• contracting as a "holding" tool to increase personal commitment
• outreach work to rural/ isolated youth
• providing transportation (bus or taxi or agency ride)
• providing food - breakfast programs offered non-discriminatorily
• build time into program for feedback/listening sessions

11) How do you reach youth - what has worked/not worked for you in the past and present?

• Midland Area Reading Council radio campaign, youth script and voices
• personal outreach visits to smaller communities
• flyers in newspapers
• encourage peer referral
• suggest trying Internet advertising, perhaps through "Pal Talk" (chatline)
• reach parent audience through radio, TV, library, newspaper etc
• "piggybacking" outreach onto existing programs, concerts etc.