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Directions to the Cady-Lee House	The Cady-Lee House (www.cadylee.org) is located at 7064 Eastern Avenue NW on the southeast corner of Piney Branch Road and Eastern Avenue in Takoma, D.C., adjacent to Takoma Park, Maryland.	2000-01-01
Disconnected Data Means Disconnected Youth	Fragmented data systems result in wasted resources; we are letting young people fall through the cracks. if we don’t provide our policy makers the information they need to see how fragmented programs and policies could fit together, and if we don’t provide our direct service providers the in-	2010-01-04
District/Community Alliances to Transform High Schools: Lessons Learned from California's High School Pupil Success Act	The High School Pupil Success Act (HSPSA), a unique public-private partnership between the State of California, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with additional support from the Walter S.	2005-05-01
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 these tips for working collaboratively without creating redundancy.	2011-01-06
Dropout Prevention Summit Planning Guide	The America’s Promise Alliance is supporting 50 state and at least 50 city Dropout Prevention Summits to be held by 2010. The purposes of the Dropout Prevention Summits are many, but the primary intention is to increase public awareness of the dropout and college-readiness crisis.	2008-05-22
Education-Student Surveys: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System Survey	The bill requires the State Department of Education to collaborate with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in order to incorporate the provisions of the Maryland Adolescent Survey and the Youth Tobacco Survey into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance system survey.	2007-01-10
Empowering Staff, Improving Quality	This inspiring 12-minute video documents how the Georgetown Divide, a small community in the Sierra foothills of Northern California has embraced a positive youth development approach across the settings where youth spend time and has anchored that commitment through widespread use of the Youth Program Quality Assessment.	2010-09-08
Federal Programs & Youth Workers: Opportunities to Strengthen Our Workforce	Policymakers increasingly view youth development and after-school programs as solutions to a host of problems confronting youth, communities and our country overall. Yet, funds for these programs as a whole are scarce and when resources are devoted to training or workforce development, they appear to be included as afterthoughts or minor priorities.	2009-01-30
Finding Common Agendas: How Young People are Being Engaged in Community Change Efforts	To further the exploration of the changing role of community development organizations (CDOs) in youth development work, the Ford Foundation retained Community Development Associates, Inc., (CDA) in January of 1998 to conduct an investigation of the interconnection between youth development work and that of community-based organizations.	1999-10-01
Forum Flash - December 16, 2010	New Ready by 21 Strategies in Action, The Forum Heads to Atlanta & Webinar Roundup	2010-12-20