National Youth Employment Coalition: Information Center


Can Personalized Text Messages and Peer Mentor Outreach Increase College Going Among Low-Income High School Graduates?
	This academic paper, written by Benjamin Castleman of Harvard University and Lindsay Page of Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research, investigates text messaging and peer mentor outreach as two promising approaches to inform students of college-related summer tasks and to connect them to professional support when they need help.

Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth (2006)
	"Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-Of-School Youth" documents what committed educators, policymakers, and community leaders across the country are doing to reconnect out-of-school youth to the social and economic mainstream. It provides background on the serious high school dropout problem and describes in-depth what twelve communities are doing to reconnect dropouts to education and employment training. It also includes descriptions of major national program models serving out-of-school youth. Case Studies include: Montgomery County (Dayton), Ohio; Jefferson County (Louisville), Kentucky; Austin, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Portland, Oregon; Oakland, California; Trenton, New Jersey; Baltimore, Maryland; Pima County (Tucson), Arizona; Camden, New Jersey; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Published by the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), 2006.