Our mission is four-fold:

• Support direct program staff as they refine and develop their practices. We not only monitor program activities and stats, but collaborate in continuous process research studies and timely feedback to participants.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of our services by studying how each program has impacted their clients' lives;
• Research best practices in education. We study and document classroom approaches, synthesize what we learn, and share out findings with The Institute for Excellence in Urban Education staff who use our protocols and results to train educators from several North Texas school districts.
• Support the agency's work though information technology and services.

Dr. Ann Minnett leads our internal team of researchers, which includes a research associate and a database manager.

Dr. J. Michael Coleman, Dean and Associate Provost at UT-Dallas, has served as External Evaluator for SCYFC since 1982. He and his team perform annual evaluations of the school by following graduates and their families for eight years after they leave JEJCS. His team also conducts a follow-up study of the Therapeutic After School Program participants.