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  National: Workforce and Education

A Collective Responsibility, A Collective Work: Supporting the Path to Positive Life Outcomes for Youth in Economically Distressed Communities by Rhonda Tsoi-A-Fatt for the Center for Law and Social Policy. The report focuses on the various factors that contribute to the discrepancies in outcomes among youth. The focus on indicators throughout early adulthood provide strategies of a continuum of support that benefit youth development.

 

Supporting High Quality Career and Technical Education through Federal and State Policy by Betsy Brand for the American Youth Policy Forum. The report discusses the need for a shift in the way policymakers view the purpose of the educational system. The report argues that not enough focus has been put on career and technical education pathways that result in civic responsibility and transition into adulthood while providing specific strategies that can be undertaken by federal and state governments to correct this. 2008.
ReportCover Making the Juvenile Justice - Workforce System Connection for Re-entering Young Offenders: A Guide for Local Practice by Linda Harris with Charles Modiano, consultant. This guidebook is designed to provide advice from the field to communities who are interested in pursuing more formal connections—or strengthening existing connections—between the workforce and justice systems.
YoReport Learning from the Youth Opportunity Experience: Building Delivery Capacity in Distressed Communities by Linda Harris. In 2000, the U.S. Department of Labor awarded significant Youth Opportunity (YO) Grants to 36 high-poverty urban, rural, and Native American communities. Here's a look at how these communities assessed and integrated existing youth-serving systems and agencies to support young people. The 4-page Executive Summary is also available separately.
Leave No Youth Behind: Opportunities for Congress to Reach Disconnected Youth by Jodie Levin-Epstein and Mark H. Greenberg. Too many young people are not on the path toward successful adulthood, and the U.S. has no coherent policy to help these disconnected youth become productive members of society.
The Tragic Loss of the Summer Jobs Program: Why it is Time to Reinstate! by Linda Harris for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, July 2007
The Projected Summer 2007 Job Outlook for The Nation's Teens and the Case for Federally-Funded Summer Jobs Creation Programs by Andy Sum at the Center for Labor Market Studies.
Memo on Reconnecting Our Youth by a Coalition of Voices from Campaign for Youth. In January 2005 a coalition of more than 250 organizations forwarded a memo to the President with a set of policy soluctions to improve outcomes for disconnected youth.
Helping Youth Succeed Through Out-of-School Time Programs by American Youth Policy Forum, January 2006
Final report on the Evaluation of the American Conservations and Youth Service Corps by JoAnn Jastrzab, Julie Masker, John Blomquist, and Larry Orr with ABT Associates 1996.
Taking the Bumpy "Workforce Investment Act" Path to Connecting Disconnected Youth by Darryl Hamm. Youth Law News, vol. xxiv, no. 4. October-December 2003.
Losing our Future: How Minority Youth are being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis a Joint Release by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, Urban Institute, Advocates for Children of New York and The Civil Society Institute 2004.

One-Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities by Paul E. Barton at Policy Information Center, Educational Testing Service 2005.

Using CDBG to Support Community-Based Youth Programs by The Finance Project, 2008.
 

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  Community Specific: Workforce, Juvenile Justice and Education
Building a Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College by Michael Chavez Reilly for the Youth Development Institute. The report provides a specific example of initiatives in New York City that provide support for formerly disconnected youth attempting to attain higher levels of education The pilot program described in the report has many goals that involve collaboration between community groups and city universities among other local agencies. Data is analyzed to highlight the successes and possible obstacles inherent in the program.
State Strategies to Reduce Child and Family Poverty by The National Governor’s Association Center for Best Practices. The issue brief provides some of the strategies delineated by the NGA’s Center for best Practices by providing specific state policy measures that could reduce poverty. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the negative effects of poverty within a community across different sectors of the economy and possible solutions to address poverty.
PromiseCover Unfulfilled Promise: Dimensions and Characteristics of Philadelphia's Drop-out Crisis; 2000-2005 by Ruth Curran Neild and Robert Balfanz of the Center for Social Organization of Schools at the Johns Hopkins University. The report analyzes data from the Kids Integrated Data System (KIDS), housed at the Cartographic Modeling Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, and provides a detailed picture of when and why Philadelphia’s young people drop out of high school.
Turning it Around: A Collective Effort to Understand and Resolve Philadelphia's Drop-out Crisis is a companion volume to Unfulfilled Promise that offers a set of broad-based recommendations and maps out specific actions to be taken by key public and private agencies, parents and young people to accomplish project goals.
Too Big To Be Seen: The Invisible Dropout Crisis in Boston and America is a report from the Boston Youth Transitions Taskforce.
Cross Roads 2002: Increasing Youth Offenders Workforce Participation by the City of Los Angeles Workforce Investment Board Youth Council.
Hartford's Plan for Developing the Workforce of the Future by Hartford Future Workforce Investment System 2006.
YO! Baltimore: Changing Minds, Changing Lives, Baltimore's Youth Opportunity Story by the Mayor's Office of Employment Development and the Baltimore Workforce Investment Board - Youth Council.
Whatever it takes: How Twelve Communities are Reconnecting Out-Of-School Youth by Nancy Martin and Samuel Halperin of the American Youth Policy Forum 2006.
Involving Youth in Policymaking and Coordinating Youth Policy: State-Level Structures in California and Other States by California Research Bureau October 2005
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  Juvenile Justice and Re-entry
Community Collaboratives Addressing Youth Gangs: Interim Findings from the Gang Reduction Program by Meagan Cahill, et al. for the Urban Institute Justice Policy Center. The report delineates the history of gang reduction efforts by the Department of Justice as well as an in depth analysis of recent OJJDP efforts to address youth gangs. The report provides the results across various communities and findings both specific to these communities and for gang violence reduction in general.

Guidebook for Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare System Coordination and Integration: A framework for Improved Outcomes by Janet Wiig and John A. Tuell for the Child Welfare League of America. The report provides support for the need for overlap between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. CWLA provides a guideline with specific examples to assist in the implementation and coordination of these efforts. 2008.

Building on Strength: Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice Programs by William H. Barton and Jeffrey A. Butts for the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. The report discusses the flaws in the myopic method of analysis in the traditional study of Juvenile Justice Programs. The report suggests a more positive analysis focusing on what is “right” with youth rather than what is “wrong.” The framework is built upon positive youth development and strength-based practice. 2008.
Intensive Aftercare for High-Risk Juveniles: A Community Care Model by D.M. Altschuler and T.L. Armstrong. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Can Employers Play a More Positive Role in Prisoner Re-Entry? by Harry Holzer, S. Rahpael, and M. Stoll with the Urban Institute 2002.
State Juvenile Justice Profiles by the National Center for Juvenile Justice.
Charles E. Shannon, Jr. Community Safety Initiative 2006 Grant Program Resource Guide: A Systematic Approach to Improving Community Safety by Asheley Van Ness, Robert Fallon , and Sarah Lawrence with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety 2006.
Employment and Training for Court-Involved Youth by Taskforce on Employment and Training for Court-Involved Youth. Jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration and the U.S. Department of Jusctice , Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 2002.
  Guide for Implementing the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model by OJJDP of the U.S. Department of Justice 1998.
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