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Ready Thoughts: February 2012

Ready Thoughts: The Power of One

2012-02-24
What's in Your Cabinet?

In the face of budget cuts that threaten to erode crucial supports for children and youth, some state agencies have found a promising mechanism for increasing efficiency while maintaining or even improving supports for young people: Children’s Cabinets.

2012-02-16
Ready Thoughts: January 2011

Ready Thoughts: Ready, Willing and Able

2012-01-30
New Policies Should Align With Existing Goals and Plans for Children and Youth

To have a collective impact on child and youth outcomes, leaders must develop and implement a broad, long-term child and youth strategy, and be accountable for results. This can be a challenge. Policies often require the creation of strategic plans that are organized around a single, narrow topic.

2012-01-11
Youth Policy News - January 2013

January Edition of Youth Policy News

2012-01-01
Forum Flash: December 2011

Forum Flash: Youth Jobs, Youth Engagement, OST

2011-12-19
Ready Partners: December 8, 2011

A story of achievement, sharing youth data, working training pays of

2011-12-08
Ready Thoughts: December 2011

Expanded Learning Time Does Not Equal Expanded Learning (click to download the PDF)

2011-12-01
Credentialed by 26, When Working Works: Employment & Postsecondary Success

Balancing work and school can hinder a young person’s success in higher education. However, the opposite can also be true: Good jobs facilitate student persistence and completion. So what does it look like when working works for students? That’s what we need to understand in order to transform employment opportunities into drivers of student success.

2011-11-29
Forum Flash: November 2011

Youth Organizing for Change, Creative Youth Programs and Lessons from Penn State

2011-11-17