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Community Action Framework for Youth Development (April 2004)
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The last decade has seen an explosion of interest in "youth development" as both a policy and a community approach to helping children achieve healthy outcomes as young adults. Despite the success of frameworks which have shifted the focus from intervening with teenagers who exhibited "high risk" behaviors to improving developmental outcomes as the goal in the short term, they have often left the longer-term outcomes implicit, or excluded them completely. The Community Action for Youth Development Framework seeks to integrate basic knowledge about youth development and the community conditions that affect it with emerging hypotheses about what it will take to transform communities into places where all young people can achieve their fullest potential. The Community Action Framework for Youth Development seeks to address five questions: 1) What are our basic long-term goals for youth? 2) What are the critical developmental milestones or markers that tell us young people are on their way to getting there? 3) What do young people need to achieve these developmental milestones? 4) What must change in key community settings to provide enough of these supports and opportunities to all youth that need them? and 5) How do we create the conditions and capacity in communities to make these changes possible and probable? |
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Stronger Schools, Stronger Cities (2004)
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A 30-month Municipal Leadership in Education (MLE) project was launched in June 2001 with financial support from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The MLE project set out to support and assist local communities and to illustrate the leadership roles that mayors and council members can play and are playing to promote and support school improvement. The project also sought to identify promising practices in municipal leadership and school improvement, while developing a range of
tools and resources for mayors and council members who are interested in strengthening K-12 education. |
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NCWD: Info Brief
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Serving Youth with Disabilities Under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998: The Basics (9/03) |
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Connected by 25: A Plan for Investing in Successful Futures for Foster Youth (2003)
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This investment plan calls for government, foundations, community organizations, and individuals to mobilize their energy and resources with a greater focus on the future of foster youth and those aging out of foster care. This plan outlines five strategies aimed at helping foster youth to achieve economic success, which is a critical building block for future success in a number of fundamental aspects of adult life, including housing, family stability, safety, health, and social well-being. |
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Finding Out What Matters for Youth: Testing Key Links in a Community Action Framework for Youth Development (Nov. 2002)
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This is the first in a series of reports. Their purpose is to deepen our understanding of what matters for youth and what we can do to improve these conditions.
Authors: Michelle Alberti Gambone, Ph.D.; Adena M. Klem, Ph.D.; & James P. Connell, Ph.D. |
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Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce Development and Youth Development for Young Offenders - Overview
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An overview of Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce Development and Youth Development for Young Offenders, commissioned by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and written by David Brown and Sarah Maxwell, National Youth Employment Coalition; Edward DeJesus, Youth Development and Research Fund, Inc., and Vincent Schiaraldi, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. (c) 2002 |
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Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce Development and Youth Development for Young Offenders - Program Profiles
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Program profiles from Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce Development and Youth Development for Young Offenders, commissioned by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and written by David Brown and Sarah Maxwell, National Youth Employment Coalition; Edward DeJesus, Youth Development and Research Fund, Inc., and Vincent Schiaraldi, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. (c) 2002 |
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Advancing Youth Development Under the Workforce Investment Act - Jan. 1999
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Advancing Youth Development Under the Workforce Investment Act by David Brown 1/1/99 |
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