Karen Pittman
State Youth Policy: Helping All Youth to Grow Up Fully Prepared and Fully Engaged
While states have put in place scores of youth polices, no state can claim to have a single, coherent youth policy that serves as a lens for assessing and planning individual policies. However, across the countries, states are working to develop more coordinated approaches to youth policy.
Preventing Problems, Promoting Development, Encouraging Engagement: Competing Priorities or Inseparable Goals?
This paper summarizes several major shifts that have occurred in the past 15 to 20 years in what researchers, policy makers and practitioners think about what young people need, what they get and where they get it.
Unfinished Business: Further Reflections on a Decade of Promoting Youth Development
This is the paper that got the Forum started when we were still a part of the International Youth Foundation-US. It articulates the vision of youth policies that incorporate youth development principles and operate under a coordinated framework.
Youth Today: Don't Deify Graduation Rates
By Karen Pittman, October 2006
The buzz about improving the high school graduation rate is becoming a roar. Governor’s children’s cabinets are picking this as the leading indicator result for youth, foundations are re-upping their commitments and youth organizations are recasting their wares to reflect better in this new accountability light.
Youth Today: Youth Development Work
By Karen Pittman, December 2006
Sometimes, I’m just slow. I carried around the results of two work force surveys in my head for weeks before I realized the significance of putting the two of them together.
