Ready News: January 24, 2022
In This Issue: Collaboration, Training Opportunities, Job Opening, Belonging, SEL
In This Issue: Collaboration, Training Opportunities, Job Opening, Belonging, SEL
Blog by Mishaela Durán, President & CEO
This piece is featured in the 1/24 The 74 Newsletter
When I first saw West Side Story, one moment brought me back to my high school principal’s office. The Jets were singing, “We ain’t no delinquents, we’re misunderstood. Deep down inside us there is good!”
I could have said the same thing when my principal was suspending me for truancy. He told me I would never amount to anything.
In this Issue: upcoming events, ACA National Conference pre-session, Creating Equitable Developmental Ecosystems for Marginalized Youth, and more.
In This Issue: Youth Voice, Youth Engagement, Funding, Social and Emotional Learning
With support from The Wallace Foundation, Learning Heroes’ latest research, “Out-of-School Time Programs: Paving the Way for Children to Find Passion, Purpose & Voice” reveals exciting new insights about the role of out-of-school time (OST) settings in helping our young people thrive.
In This Issue: Summer, Program Quality Resources, Podcast Series, Student Voice, Family Engagement
In this Issue: Announcing our revised Technical Assistance briefs, hiring at the Forum, upcoming events, and resources from the field.
Understanding the People, Places and Possibilities of Learning and Development Across Settings
In This Issue: Science of Learning & Development, Social and Emotional Learning, Opportunity Youth, Data, Family Engagement
In this Issue: It Takes an Ecosystem, Hiring at the Forum, Upcoming Events, and Resources from the Field
“Wow,” my young colleague said, his voice echoing off the high marble walls in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. “I didn’t know what to expect when I came here, but now that I have done it, I realize this is what I have wanted to do my whole life: share my story with people who can make a difference.”
I live for these moments, working in partnership with Opportunity Youth United to help Opportunity Youth—young people ages 16 to 24 who are not connected to school or the workforce—meet with their elected officials. Of all the advocacy activities we do, these are the most likely to change hearts, minds, and policies, and have been the most important driver of the Reconnecting Youth Campaign’s greatest successes: securing a cumulative $195 million additional federal funding for Opportunity Youth programs over two years; securing $518 million in the COVID recovery packages; and potentially billions more in the Build Back Better Act making its way through Congress.