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Blurring the Lines for Learning: Youth and Community Centered Responses to the Challenges of High School Reform Karen Pittman, The Forum for Youth Investment July, 2005 |
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Summer is the time to "blur the lines" for learning. As the newest member of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Karen Pittman used July to take the Forum's message about the need for strong community learning partnerships on the road. Speaking to educators on opening panels at the NEA Annual conference and the Council of Chief State School Officers Summer Institute, Pittman got heads nodding when she stated: The question isn’t whether learning opportunities outside of the traditional classroom and school day help students prepare for and engage in life, work, and further learning. The question is why these opportunities are considered beyond or even peripheral to high school reform. |
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Breakfast Briefing: Powerful Pathways American Youth Policy Forum February, 2002 |
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This brief details the American Youth Policy Forum breakfast briefing for Congressional aides with interests in education, career preparation and social services for youth, and representatives from the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Justice, whose purpose was to initiate a dialogue on the educational needs of “vulnerable youth," explore current and potential opportunities—in policy, legislation and practice—to reduce barriers and address the needs of these youth, and review promising and comprehensive strategies for vulnerable youth—in education, employment/training and juvenile justice—and challenges in aligning systems of academic preparation and ongoing supports. |
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Bringing Principles Into Policies: Taking the Youth Development Movement to the Satehouse Forum for Youth Investment November, 2002 |
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In this presentation, Karen Pittman reflects on the lessons learned in the past decade’s challenge to embed principles of youth development into the mainstream discussions of what young people need, do and offer. She also presents policy frames to face the challenge for the next decade of embedding these ideas into public policy. |
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Building Quality Improvement Systems: Lessons from Three Emerging Efforts in the Youth-Serving Sector Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom and Nicole Yohalem (with Karen Pittman), The Forum for Youth Investment March, 2007 |
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Quality is fast becoming a policy priority in states and localities around the country. As a result, formal and informal networks of youth organizations are seeking and developing strategies to help them assess and improve performance. This report takes a close look at efforts underway in three networks and provides a preliminary framework for thinking about key questions when planning any kind of program quality improvement work in the youth-serving sector. |
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Communications Strategies to Galvanize Support for Youth Ada McMahon, Forum for Youth Investment February, 2007 |
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This memo summarizes an audio conference hosted by the Forum for Youth Investment, along with Voices for America's Children and Kids Count, for youth advocates on communications and messaging. The call featured Kristen Grimm, president of Spitfire Strategies, and Ann Lochner, director of the Applied Research Collaborative on Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. |
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Conference Call: Communications for Youth Advocates Forum for Youth Investment, Voices for America's Children, and Kids Count February, 2007 |
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The Forum for Youth Investment, along with Voices for America's Children and Kids Count, hosted this conference call for youth advocates on communications and messaging. The call featured Kristen Grimm, president of Spitfire Strategies, and Ann Lochner, director of the Applied Research Collaborative on Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. |
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Extending the Reach of Youth Development Through Civic Activism: Research Results from the Youth Leadership for Development Initiative Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development 2007 |
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This report demonstrates the link between civic activism and youth development and highlights the impact that civic activism can have on youth and community development. |
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Follow-up Study of 900 YouthBuild Graduates American Youth Policy Forum March, 2004 |
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This brief covered the follow-up forum aiming to bring attention to the estimated 2.4 million low-income young people who either fail to earn a high school diploma or, even with one, fail to find employment. Since the 1960s, federal and state governments and philanthropic foundations have supported a variety of programs, ranging from the Job Corps, youth service and conservation corps, a variety of job training programs and, most recently, those supported under the Workforce Investment Act. According to the forum, overall, policymakers have paid scant attention to such interventions, but this forum presented overwhelmingly positive findings about one of the premier programs serving out-of-school youth: YouthBuild serves about 6,000 young adults, 72 percent male, in some 200 local multi-racial and multi-ethnic programs in 47 states and jurisdictions. |
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Forum Focus: Revisiting Risk in the 21st Century Forum for Youth Investment February, 2005 |
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Over the past year, dozens of articles have been published about excessive youth borrowing and spending (leading to high amounts of debt), new reactions to negative body image (such as plastic surgery), as well as more familiar risks like premarital sex and smoking. This brief explores these challenges and suggests that these “new risks” be incorporated into the prevention dialogue. The on the ground section examines three innovative programs in California, New York and Tennessee. |
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Forum Focus: A Portfolio Approach to Youth Policy The Forum for Youth Investment November, 2003 |
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This issue of Forum Focus highlights what researchers and policy makers are doing to help governments take stock of their efforts to make sure that every young person is “Ready by 21” — ready for work, ready for college, ready for life. The Research Update reviews efforts to establish a coherent set of youth development outcomes and indicators, create lists of program outcomes that can be used across systems and sectors, and assess program performance. The On the Ground section features results-based accountability work that is underway in San Francisco. Voices From the Fields concludes with an interview with Diane Denish, Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico, who is providing leadership to the state’s newly-formed Children’s Cabinet. | |
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Helping Youth Succeed Through Out-of-School Time Programs American Youth Policy Forum January, 2006 |
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This report reviews the current research and literature on out-of-school time (OST) programs especially with regard to their effectiveness; explores the range of OST programs and activities as employed by the various youth-serving sectors; considers the untapped possibilities of OST programs to meet the needs of young people, including academic enhancement, career and college preparation, leadership development, and civic engagement; and provides policy guidance on how to support and sustain high quality OST programs as part of a system of supports for older youth. |
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High School After-School and School Reform Forum for Youth Investment September, 2005 |
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This audio conference focuses on how and why the high school reform and after-school movements need to be woven together to produce a solid system of learning opportunities and developmental supports designed to help all young people prepare for the future. |
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High School: The Next Frontier for After-School Advocates? Forum for Youth Investment February, 2004 |
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Making the case for increased investments in older youth during out-of-school time requires making the case for doing business differently — rethinking a range of strategic and conceptual decisions including recruitment and attendance, policy framing, program content and partnership development. This issue of Forum Focus zooms in on some promising solutions. In Research Update, the Forum for Youth Investment summarizes findings from two recent studies of programs serving high school youth and offer an age-appropriate framework for describing features of quality out-of-school time settings. In On the Ground, the Forum describes how TASC (The After-School Corporation) is engaging teenagers after school in New York City. Voices from the Fields features candid conversations with B.J. Walker, chief of human infrastructure for the city of Chicago, and Nancy Wachs, executive director of After School Matters. |
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How Youth Become Effective Citizens - Models for Engaging Youth in Policy American Youth Policy Forum March, 2003 |
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This brief summarizes the forum interested in investigating youth civic engagement. According to the forum, youth civic engagement leads to positive outcomes for youth as well as their communties, but it is important that states and cities recognize how to get their youth involved. At this forum, a panel of youth and adults described two models, the Missouri Governor's Youth Cabinet and the San Francisco Youth Commission, that successfully include youth in important decision-making or influential positions. |
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Innovative State Strategies to Promote Youth Development American Youth Policy Forum September, 2002 |
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This brief describes the forum co-sponsored by the National Governors' Association (NGA) addressing the state role in promoting youth development policies. MacLellan, a policy analyst from the NGA, claimed that policies fostered by the Network should be guided by youth development principles that are asset-based and inclusive and that policies should buil on and complement human services. Panelists from three of the Network states presented their approaches to fostering youth development. |
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Learning and Leading: A Tool Kit for Youth Development and Civic Activism Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development 2004 |
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Learning and Leading is a research-based tool kit that sets out to evaluate the Youth Leadership for Development Initiative (YLDI), a three year project coordinated by the Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development with the support of the Ford Foundation. Aimed at practitioners, it is grounded in a youth development approach. Each section of Learning and Leading includes a description of key concepts, a set of potential practices, checklists, a list of resources, vignettes illustrating practical lessons from YLDI learning community members, and workshops or activities. |
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Making Smart Investments in Youth: What Is Working? Co-hosted by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Forum for Youth Investment February, 2006 |
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Speakers described how a children’s budget can be used to help policy makers take stock of investments in youth, shared innovative strategies for reinvesting in prevention, described examples of how states are planning for sustainable funding and how flexible local funding is working in one state. Speakers: Margaret Flynn-Kahn, The Finance Project; Senator Cynthia Nava, New Mexico; Hathaway Ferebee, Executive Director, Baltimore Safe and Sound; and Carol Wire, Deputy Director, Oregon Commission on Children and Families. | |
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Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools Nicole Yohalem and Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom (with Sean Fischer and Marybeth Shinn), The Forum for Youth Investment March, 2007 |
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Thanks to growing interest in the subject of youth program quality, many tools are now available to help organizations and systems assess and improve quality. Given the size and diversity of the youth-serving sector, it is unrealistic to expect that any one tool or process will fit all programs or circumstances. This report compares the purpose, history, structure, methodology, content and technical properties of nine different program observation tools. |
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Moving Ideas in the Allied Youth Fields: A Catalog of Opportunities for Scholars and Practitioners to Publish and/or Publicize their Work The Forum for Youth Investment, The Forum for Youth Investment June, 2003 |
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The Moving Ideas catalog is intended to serve as a resource to scholars and practitioners interested in identifying opportunities to publish and/or publicize their work related to youth. In helping connect individuals that have something to say with specific communications vehicles, we hope to support the flow of information across the “allied youth fields,” the optimistic term we use to describe the complex space in which university researchers, child welfare advocates, after-school practitioners, prevention specialists, youth development funders and education administrators all intersect. This collection has print, Web-based, peer-reviewed, and non peer-reviewed periodicals |
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Moving Youth Policy Forward: Lessons Learned Forum for Youth Investment and the National Conference of State Legislatures, April, 2006 |
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Looking for a better way of coordinating and aligning the range of policies and programs that exist to support young people, these policy makers in Kentucky and Connecticut have offered up policy prescriptions with an aim to getting youth Ready by 21: Ready for College, Work and Life. The materials used in the audio-conference highlight legislation in these states that attempt to bring together the key players across departments and agencies to better align efforts for children and youth. |
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Philadelphia Youth Voice Project American Youth Policy Forum October, 2002 |
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This brief covers the forum that advocated the scaling up of the Youth Voice Project. According to the forum, successful youth programs that seek replication on a larger scale must move with care or risk failure. Insufficient planning and flexibility concerning replication can lead to failed policy efforts, and frustrated practitioners, policymakers, and youth. Issues of “going to scale” are being addressed by Youth VOICES, a relatively new and university-based, youth civic engagement project serving in- and out-of-school youth. This forum details ways in which Youth VOICES can be further improve its engagement with the youth populations and magnify its efforts. Panelists offered tips to sustain youth involvement in a project or program. |
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Preventing Problems, Promoting Development, Encouraging Engagement: Competing Priorities or Inseperable Goals Karen Johnson Pittman, Merita Irby, Joel Tolman, Nicole Yohalem, and Thaddeus Ferber, The Forum for Youth Investment March, 2003 |
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This paper summarizes several major shifts that have occurred in the past 15 to 20 years in what researchers, policy makers and practitioners think about what young people need, what they get and where they get it. There have also been important shifts in thinking about what young people do, should do and can do, and when it is reasonable to expect results. Based on work started in 1990 at the Center for Youth Development and Policy Research at AED, this paper expands upon Pittman and Irby's 1996 paper, Preventing Problems or Promoting Development. This updated version incorporates critical ideas about young people as participants and change makers — ideas that, in our minds, constitute the next, more powerful iteration of the youth development approach. |
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Putting Youth Work on the Map Nicole Yohalem and Karen Pittman, The Forum for Youth Investment (on behalf of the Next Generation Youth Work Coalition) November, 2006 |
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Over the past year, two comprehensive studies of youth workers were coordinated by the Next Generation Youth Work Coalition. Together, these two studies, conducted by the Forum for Youth Investment and the National Afterschool Association, capture the voices and perspectives of over 5,000 youth workers from across the country. Together they offer the clearest, most comprehensive picture yet of the youth work profession: who youth workers are, where they work, how they are supported on the job and what their aspirations are, for themselves and the field. This research brief discusses key findings and implications from these studies, and includes recommendations generated by key Coalition stake holders in response to the data. |
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Ready for College Audio-Conference Forum for Youth Investment May, 2006 |
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Much has been written lately that asks the question — are young people across this country ready for college? The Forum for Youth Investment, Connect for Kids, Voices for America’s Children and many state Kids Count organizations contributed to this audioconference hosted for state advocates to share the vision, messages and state policies being proposed to improve the college readiness of youth. |
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Ready for College, Action Brief #1 Forum for Youth Investment May, 2006 |
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Much has been written lately that asks the question — are young people across this country ready for college? The Forum for Youth Investment, Connect for Kids, Voices for America’s Children and many state Kids Count organizations contributed on this action brief for state advocates to share the vision, messages and state policies being proposed to improve the college readiness of youth. |
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Ready for Work, Action Brief #2 Forum for Youth Investment September, 2006 |
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In the past, much attention has been paid to the leaks in the “education pipeline”, but now employers, youth and communities are focusing on repairing the “work pipeline” to ensure that young people are ready for work by age 21. This issue brief is the second in a series developed to share the vision, messages and state policies being proposed to improve the work readiness of youth. |
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Schools for a New Society Roundtable Discussion American Youth Policy Forum May, 2006 |
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This brief details the forum that served as an overview of the Schools for a New Society (SNS) initiative. SNS is a systematic attempt to address the failings of traditional high schools, from which, according to recent studies, one third of public high school students fail to graduate. SNS aims to make changes in local policy that also have an impact at both the state and federal level. |
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Site Visit to Boston, MA American Youth Policy Forum June, 2005 |
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The purpose of this site visit was to allow participants to learn about how one community is working to redesign its high schools and to provide various learning options by working with a broad range of partners to create new small high schools. Day One of the trip consisted of visits to two new small high schools and a visit to a neighborhood youth organization that provides quality out-of-school time activities for teens. Day Two of the trip included a visit to a small middle and high charter school, a meeting with the Superintendent of Boston Public Schools (BPS) Thomas Payzant, a meeting with the citywide partners in the school reform effort, and a visit to an alternative education school for at-risk youth. It is important to note that Boston is one of seven cities participating in the Schools for A New Society (SNS) Initiative funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support district-wide high school reform. |
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Students Continually Learning: A Report of Presentations, Student Voices and State Actions Council of Chief State School Officers and the Forum for Youth Investment , Council of Chief State School Officers and the Forum for Youth Investment April, 2001 |
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Students Continually Learning: A Report of Presentations, Student Voices and State Actions The Forum worked with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to integrate principles of youth development and youth engagement into the 1999 CCSSO Summer Institute for state education leaders. In April 2001, CCSSO and the Forum jointly published a report based on the results of this meeting, Students Continually Learning: A Report of Presentations, Student Voices and State Actions. |
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The Kentucky Youth Policy Assessment TJ Delahanty, Pilar Corbellini, Robin Harris, Jonathan Bryant July, 2005 |
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The Kentucky Youth Policy Assessment is a snapshot of statewide resources, supports and services for young people ages 8 to 24. The assessment covers programs and services for state fiscal year 2004 (July 1 2003 to June 30, 2004). The assessment is an effort of the Kentucky Youth Development Partnership’s (KYDP) desired result for promoting positive youth development policies at the state and local levels. | |
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Transitions: Building Better Lives for Youth Leaving Foster Care Children's Action Alliance September, 2005 |
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With the continuing recognition that foster youth need extensive assistance to successfully transition to the independence of adulthood, this report revises and updates the earlier version of the report. The new edition provides updated information on federal laws and funding, existing state support programs and services to support transitioning youth, recent state actions taken to improve transitions for youth, and other new and emerging issues. |
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What's Next for Child and Youth Advocacy? Forum for Youth Investment December, 2006 |
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After the 2006 elections the Forum for Youth Investment, along with Voices for America's Children, Kids Count, and the National Conference of State Legislatures, hosted a conference call for state child and youth advocates to discuss what the changing political landscape means for child and youth advocacy. |
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Youth as Policy Makers: More Than Just Recipients National Conference of State Legislatures and the Forum for Youth Investment March, 2006 |
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This audio conference session explores how states are engaging young people in public policy decision making, leading to better policy and invaluable learning opportunities for the young people involved. Speakers describe the structure and role of youth advisory groups and some of the challenges and benefits of including youth voices in policy making. Speakers include a young person who has served on a youth council. |
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Youth Court: A Community Solution for Embracing At-Risk Youth--A National Update Sarah S. Pearson and Sonia Jurich, American Youth Policy Forum 2005 |
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The report builds upon research previously conducted by the Urban Institute and an extensive survey of youth court programs conducted by the National Youth Court Center. It provides up-to-date data to give policymakers and the public an overview of youth court programs, their characteristics, and benefits. The report’s survey to programs garnered a 40% return rate, which has yielded a successful view of the current youth court landscape. The report’s findings cover topics such as: program completion, cost, returns on investment, impact on youth offenders and volunteers, educational and civic opportunities, program sustainability, and recommendations to policymakers. |
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Youth Employment Programming that Works: A Discussion with the PEPNet 2001 Awardees American Youth Policy Forum December, 2001 |
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This brief summarizes the forum that allowed policymakers to hear from youth and practitioners from PEPNet programs recognized in 2001. The National Youth Employment Coalition, assisted by a diverse group of youth employment development experts from around the country, developed PEPNet -- Promising and Effective Practices Network -- to improve programming provided to youth; to encourage policy that supports effective programs; and to increase support for investments in effective youth programs. PEPNet’s set of effective practice criteria and the programs that it recognizes each year as meeting these criteria, form the basis for a range of materials, tools and information that PEPNet, with support from the U.S. Department of Labor, provides the field. Programs recognized as exemplifying PEPNet’s criteria have engaged in a rigorous selection process that includes a comprehensive application and review by a volunteer board of peers with expertise in the youth employment and development field. |
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Transitions: Building Better Lives for Youth Leaving Foster Care Children's Action Alliance September, 2005 |
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With the continuing recognition that foster youth need extensive assistance to successfully transition to the independence of adulthood, this report revises and updates the earlier version of the report. The new edition provides updated information on federal laws and funding, existing state support programs and services to support transitioning youth, recent state actions taken to improve transitions for youth, and other new and emerging issues. |
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Forum Focus: Revisiting Risk in the 21st Century Forum for Youth Investment February, 2005 |
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Over the past year, dozens of articles have been published about excessive youth borrowing and spending (leading to high amounts of debt), new reactions to negative body image (such as plastic surgery), as well as more familiar risks like premarital sex and smoking. This brief explores these challenges and suggests that these “new risks” be incorporated into the prevention dialogue. The on the ground section examines three innovative programs in California, New York and Tennessee. |
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Moving Youth Policy Forward: Lessons Learned Forum for Youth Investment and the National Conference of State Legislatures, April, 2006 |
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Looking for a better way of coordinating and aligning the range of policies and programs that exist to support young people, these policy makers in Kentucky and Connecticut have offered up policy prescriptions with an aim to getting youth Ready by 21: Ready for College, Work and Life. The materials used in the audio-conference highlight legislation in these states that attempt to bring together the key players across departments and agencies to better align efforts for children and youth. |
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Moving Youth Policy Forward: Lessons Learned Forum for Youth Investment and the National Conference of State Legislatures, April, 2006 |
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Looking for a better way of coordinating and aligning the range of policies and programs that exist to support young people, these policy makers in Kentucky and Connecticut have offered up policy prescriptions with an aim to getting youth Ready by 21: Ready for College, Work and Life. The materials used in the audio-conference highlight legislation in these states that attempt to bring together the key players across departments and agencies to better align efforts for children and youth. |
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The Kentucky Youth Policy Assessment TJ Delahanty, Pilar Corbellini, Robin Harris, Jonathan Bryant July, 2005 |
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The Kentucky Youth Policy Assessment is a snapshot of statewide resources, supports and services for young people ages 8 to 24. The assessment covers programs and services for state fiscal year 2004 (July 1 2003 to June 30, 2004). The assessment is an effort of the Kentucky Youth Development Partnership’s (KYDP) desired result for promoting positive youth development policies at the state and local levels. | |
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Site Visit to Boston, MA American Youth Policy Forum June, 2005 |
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The purpose of this site visit was to allow participants to learn about how one community is working to redesign its high schools and to provide various learning options by working with a broad range of partners to create new small high schools. Day One of the trip consisted of visits to two new small high schools and a visit to a neighborhood youth organization that provides quality out-of-school time activities for teens. Day Two of the trip included a visit to a small middle and high charter school, a meeting with the Superintendent of Boston Public Schools (BPS) Thomas Payzant, a meeting with the citywide partners in the school reform effort, and a visit to an alternative education school for at-risk youth. It is important to note that Boston is one of seven cities participating in the Schools for A New Society (SNS) Initiative funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support district-wide high school reform. |
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Advocates for Children & Youth and CAN Advocates for Children & Youth and CAN |
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This resource links to the website of Advocates for Children & Youth, which is a large coalition of child and youth advocacy organizations. The coalition has issue groups which focus on the needs of older youth. ACY was the first state advocacy group to adopt Ready by 21™ as a comprehensive youth agenda and framework. |
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Moving Youth Policy Forward: Lessons Learned Forum for Youth Investment and the National Conference of State Legislatures, April, 2006 |
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Looking for a better way of coordinating and aligning the range of policies and programs that exist to support young people, these policy makers in Kentucky and Connecticut have offered up policy prescriptions with an aim to getting youth Ready by 21: Ready for College, Work and Life. The materials used in the audio-conference highlight legislation in these states that attempt to bring together the key players across departments and agencies to better align efforts for children and youth. |
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The New Hampshire Child Advocacy Alliance New Hampshire Children's Advocacy Network (NH-CAN) |
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The website for The New Hampshire Child Advocacy Alliance provides information on the efforts of the New Hampshire Children’s Advocacy Network (NH-CAN), which is a coalition of over 190 organizations. |
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Forum Focus: Revisiting Risk in the 21st Century Forum for Youth Investment February, 2005 |
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Over the past year, dozens of articles have been published about excessive youth borrowing and spending (leading to high amounts of debt), new reactions to negative body image (such as plastic surgery), as well as more familiar risks like premarital sex and smoking. This brief explores these challenges and suggests that these “new risks” be incorporated into the prevention dialogue. The on the ground section examines three innovative programs in California, New York and Tennessee. |
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Life as a Teenager in Pennsylvania-Graduation Gap Pennsylvania Partnership for Children 2005 |
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This fact sheet describes the status of high school students in Pennsylvania. Every year in the state, one out of five high school students fails to graduate. Of the 153,523 ninth graders who started high school in 2000-01, those not reaching graduation four years later (2003-04) totaled 33,349 or 21.7 percent - more than one in five students. Nationally, only 71 percent of ninth graders graduate four years later. |
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Life as a Teenager in Pennsylvania-The Stateof Youth Employment Fact Sheet Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children 2005 |
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This fact sheet describes the status of youth employment in Pennsylvania. One in 11 Pennsylvania youth 16–21 is idle, defined as not working and not enrolled in school. One in seven 19–21 year olds is not working and not enrolled in school. |
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Forum Focus: Revisiting Risk in the 21st Century Forum for Youth Investment February, 2005 |
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Over the past year, dozens of articles have been published about excessive youth borrowing and spending (leading to high amounts of debt), new reactions to negative body image (such as plastic surgery), as well as more familiar risks like premarital sex and smoking. This brief explores these challenges and suggests that these “new risks” be incorporated into the prevention dialogue. The on the ground section examines three innovative programs in California, New York and Tennessee. |
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