Stevens questions evaluation of late-night program hours and staff burnout

This is another one that happened when I was in community centers that was nice, but this is what burnt me out.

In the last few years, the evening hours for both Cornerstones and Beacons have been extended to late to 11 p.m.

To provide safe space for community members, specifically in the summer.

Many programs report that those late hours underutilized.

Underutilization by the community system and expectation of sites that have gyms.

facilities have DYCD evaluated the impact of utilization of the program sites in late night hours.

And again, this was something that I remember when I was running program, we got, we loved, and it was important.

But again, because of the destruction model, like, and because most directors, even if you have other people in the building, you want to be there because it's your building.

We get unhealthy attachments.

And so, you know, you end up being there from 8 in the morning when you have summer camp to 11 o'clock at night and then starting all over again.

And then when we got the extended weekends, we were there on the weekends.

And so I remember basically living in a community center and three community centers for three summers.

So just trying to, like, how do you guys evaluate, how you evaluate that and making sure that.

These programs are being utilized and that the staff isn't being totally burnt out.

Yeah, we try to work with our providers in offering strategies to avoid burnout.

And so we do that and we offer information sessions on those pieces.

What I will say is that

you know, those, we are, we've started looking at attendance data, and we started, like, looking at it from, like, different time slots to determine the kind of, like, what is a realistic, and I think to,

brewer like thinking about where are those need

and where we're seeing a lot of traffic after a certain time frame and where we're seeing less traffic to determine what is that sweet spot.

So we started looking at the data, and I think that we're going to be able to take a deeper dive once we start really looking at the...

Holistic design, you know, because the summer is, those summers are longer than the school year, right?

I mean, you know, so we're looking at the summer component and we're looking at the school year component and trying to figure out what are, what does the, what is the attendance telling us to determine what is that realistic timeframe?

Yeah.

Those summer hours are long, but I won't lie.

Those are the best summers I had.

I don't think I could do it again in this old age, but good times.