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| Welcome to the new and improved Forum Flash, part of the Forum for Youth Investment's e-newsletter series. Forum Flash informs you about what's going on at the Forum for Youth Investment, as well as resources, opportunities, careers and recent events. |
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Don't Stop Collaborating - Just Stop Creating New Collaboratives
Many states and communities have multiple task forces, partnerships and councils working on overlapping youth issues, from bullying to pregnancy to dropouts. This policy brief calls attention to the problem of collaboration overload, and suggests ways to tackle it. Check out model policy language for creating a collaborative without creating redundancy. Learn how states and communities from Petaluma, Calif., to Texas are taking steps to align their collaboratives. Click here to read more.
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 Jobs for Youth - What Works, What's Needed
When experts gathered in Washington recently to discuss a new international study on youth employment, the message was that if we don't make significant changes in how we guide young people to careers, their employment drought might be permanent. The study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) delivers evidence about effective education, training and employment approaches here and abroad - but does the United States have the resources and will to expand what we do well and import effective practices from elsewhere? Click here to read more.
Forum Communications Director Patrick Boyle led an Urban Institute panel discussion and wrote a blog about the report.
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Karen's Youth Today Column: Let's Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to effectively monitor the institutions they go to for help. You only need to read one story about students amassing huge college debt, which some will never repay, to believe that something has to be done, now. Whether students attend proprietary schools, nonprofit colleges or public institutions, the fundamental problem is that they don't know enough about
college finances and keep digging themselves into deep financial holes. Click here to read more.
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New Poll will Measure Hope, Engagement and Well-Being of Youth
Every community wants to know about the hope, engagement and well-being of its youth, and Northern Kentucky is about to learn a lot more thanks to one of the Ready by 21 National Partners. The Northern Kentucky Education Council was selected to coordinate the national pilot test of the Enhanced Gallup Student Poll (GSPi), which Gallup developed with support from the Forum. The GSPi will allow the communities to administer the poll outside of school (such as to homeless youth), create an annually updated database on all youth, track individual progress over time and integrate the results with other individual student data. Click here to read more.
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 Youth Voices: Video Dispatch from the Mobilize.org Target 2020 Summit
Completing college with credentials that mean something in the workforce is critical to success in work and life. As part of the Forum's focus on postsecondary success, SparkAction.org's Shané Gooding attended this Mobilize.org youth summit, where community college students from across North Carolina discussed the main barriers they face and how to address them. This video shares their voices and ideas for change, and looks at some innovative student-led approaches that are underway. Click here to read more.
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Forum and AASA Connect with IDEA Partnership
Here's one way the Forum is reaching out to new partners in the field: On Jan. 11, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) National Partnership met with Karen Pittman and Rob Schamberg from the Forum, and Bryan Joffe of the American Association of School Administrators, to explore using Ready by 21 as a frame to guide the Partnership's efforts. More conversations will follow. Click here to read more.
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Researchers Looking at Impact of Youth Interventions
What's the impact of interventions aimed at improving the settings where children and youth spend their time? That was the topic in December, when the Forum and the William T. Grant Foundation convened an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are studying those effects. The multi-year studies focus on myriad settings, such youth-serving agencies, classrooms and households. Researchers shared promising findings from a teacher professional development program and a literacy curriculum, and discussed emerging methodological challenges in social network analyses and mediation. For more information about the Foundation's focus on studying social settings, see Measuring Social Settings, by Ed Seidman. Click here to read more.
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The Forum for Youth Investment is a nonprofit, nonpartisan "action tank" dedicated to helping
communities and the nation  make sure all young people are Ready by 21®: ready for college, work and life. Informed by rigorous research and practical experience, the Forum forges innovative ideas, strategies and partners to strengthen solutions for young people and those who care about them.
A trusted resource for policy makers, advocates, researchers and program professionals, the Forum provides youth and adult leaders with the information, connections and tools they need to create greater opportunities and outcomes for young people.
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