Ready by 21, developed by the Forum for Youth Investment, helps mobilize communities to improve the odds for children and youth.
Ready by 21® Publications
The following resources for and about Ready by 21 are designed to help leaders change the way they do business in order to change the odds for young people – ensuring more are ready for college, work and life.
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Bring Precision to Your Passion: A Quick Overview of the Ready by 21 Approach to Data-Driven Decision-Making |
Every community and state has dedicated leaders who have taken on the critical task of bringing diverse people and disparate efforts together in order to transform their community or state into a wonderful place to grow up. |
02/24/2010 |
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Ready by 21 Leadership Network Brochure |
Now more than ever, every young person needs to be ready for college, work and life. Unfortunately, too few are, even though every community and state has dozens if not hundreds of programs, plans, policies and campaigns in place created by leaders like you who are trying to make a difference. |
11/13/2009 |
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Ready by 21® 2009-10 Webinar Series Updated |
This webinar series will introduce participants to the core and advanced components of Ready by 21®. This challenge calls on states and communities to change the odds for youth by changing the way they do business. This requires broadening definitions of what it means for youth to be ready, for schools and communities to be supportive and for all leaders to be engaged. |
10/19/2009 |
| Ready by 21 Webinar: Introduction to the Ready by 21 Challenge |
Ready by 21 isn't a program or a campaign or even an initiative. |
09/24/2009 | |
| FAQ Regarding Sponsorship of the Ready by 21® Partnership |
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. We are dedicated to complete transparency in all that we do, say and believe. |
02/06/2009 | |
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Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools, 2nd Edition |
Program quality assessment and improvement continue to be central themes in the after-school and youth development fields. In March 2007 we released the first edition of this report comparing the purpose, history, structure, methodology, content and technical properties of different program observation tools. |
01/12/2009 |
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New Mexico: Children’s Cabinet Report Card: Growing Our Future, Together 2008 |
The Children’s Cabinet is a working group of the 14 departments that work closely on children’s issues. These departments include a wide range of state agencies, such as: Youth and Families Department, Human Service Department, Department of Health, Public Education, Higher Education, Corrections, Workforce Solutions, and even Economic Development and Cultural Affairs. |
09/01/2008 |
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Ready by 21®: A Part of Shared Youth Vision |
On July 15, Karen Pittman, facilitated an interactive presentation on the Ready by 21 Challenge at the Shared Youth Vision Pre-Conference. |
08/07/2008 |
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Ready by 21® Introductory Webinar for Local United Ways |
This presentation introduces local United Ways to the Ready by 21 Challenge and the Quality Counts Initiative. |
06/02/2008 |
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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. |
05/22/2008 |