Projects

We are committed to bolstering work at the national level – taking the lead on targeted field-building projects, providing “last dollar” resources and horsepower to leverage ongoing efforts, or, more rarely, providing seed money to build momentum for key gap-filling projects.  We are also committed to connecting directly with local leaders who are grappling with how best to harness this additional fuel for their own efforts.
National.           

SoLD Design Principles – Community-Based Programs  Collaborating with field and systems experts to co-create a set of tools for stakeholders system and organizational leaders that describe and provide examples of what services, supports and opportunities are like when they are designed in alignment with the science of learning and development.  Adjunct Design Principles K-12 Design Team facilitated by LPI and Turnaround as part of the SoLD Alliance.

 

 

Core Team:

Forum, AIR, NAA, Aspen, Collaborative Communications, XQ Schools

Design Team: BGCA, 4-H+

 

Youth Work Survey Design.  A project to determine the feasibility of a national survey of the thriving youth fields and to define and foster the partnerships and the alliance, design the project, develop a strategy for implementation, and determine the feasibility of implementation.

Learn More Here.

 

State

Whole Child Policy Table. A collaborative project to support the needs of the whole child through state policy levers. Currently the group is thinking about what reentry and re-envisioning could look like moving forward and to develop policy levers to advocate for whole child resources in the emerging policy context.

AIR, Dale Blyth
Youth Work Survey Group (including NAA, AA, 4-H, etc.)
  

LPI, CASEL, NAA, and others.

 State Edu agencies (NGA, NASBE, CCSO, MCSL, etc.)

Local.                    

Local Leaders Community of Practice. A year-long engagement with local leaders in three to five communities to create a community of practice aimed at supporting non-profit leaders, and selected local partners, to help them respond to the complex opportunities and demands associated with creating equitable learning opportunities for children and youth, with a particular focus on teens and young adults.

 

Forum/NUL

Equitable Learning and Development Project’s youth and community engagement strategies.  Work with the ELDP project partners in a small number of communities that are exploring ways to reimagine systems for learning and development (including schools) in close partnership with young people, families, educators and community members. The ELDP is thinking about education around goals that are not only youth development goals, but community, health and civic goals as well. UCCSR, CASEL, National Equity Project

Our Vision

All young people reach their fullest potential - in education, work, and life.

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