Ready by 21 Dashboards for Youth

Based on frameworks advanced by states across America and countries around the world, the Forum for Youth Investment has developed a sample youth policy framework to help policy makers and administrators bring more discipline to the challenge of ensuring that all young people are Ready by 21: ready by college, work and life.TM This framework, which is summarized on pages 8–9 of the full report, builds off of the metaphor of a car dashboard. If one wants to “steer a positive course “for youth, the first thing they will need is a clear vision of the areas of development they wish to promote.