Affinity Groups
The Forum provides support to the directors, chairs and members of state children’s cabinets and their equivalent coordinating bodies as they strive to better align and coordinate the work of their child and youth serving agencies. As a part of this network these well-positioned state leaders receive technical assistance both in person, by phone and web. The Forum and the Ready by 21 National Partners have created resources and tools for these leaders to use to advance their work. The most important benefit that participants in the network receive is the opportunity to interact with a group of peers engaged in this same unique role in states across the country, sharing tips and best practices and working through solutions to common problems.
RELATED NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Ready by 21 Big Picture Messages & Frameworks Webinar Presentation
There are numerous child and youth development frameworks being used by youth serving organizations and government entities.
June 19, 2008
Forum Works with State Teams Across the Country to Improve Youth Policy
The Forum, along with the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, recently completed the Fourth Annual Youth Policy Institute. The Institutes bring together state policymakers and are designed to help state governments obtain better outcomes from their youth policies and programs.
June 19, 2008
Forum Testifies For Tennessee Children and Youth Resource Mapping Bill
As a part of the Ready by 21 national partnership agreement between the Forum and the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Forum agrees to support state legislators as they work to implement a Ready by 21 approach in their states.
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2008 Directory of State Children's Cabinets and Councils - June 2008 Update
The 2008 Directory of State Children’s Cabinets and Councils provides at-a-glance responses to basic but important questions: which states have children’s cabinets and councils? Who is involved in them? What do they do? The guide provides summaries of interviews done with children’s cabinet and council directors in the latter half of 2007.
December 1, 2007
2007 Roundtable on Children's Cabinets and Councils
Representatives from 11 states attended the Roundtable in April of 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa to share their experiences, ideas and challenges. Several special guests, including the Governor of Iowa, Chet Culver, the First Lady of Iowa, Mari Culver and Patricia Kempthorne, the Former First Lady of Idaho, joined the event as well.
April 1, 2007
Ready by 21 Big Picture Messages & Frameworks Webinar Presentation
There are numerous child and youth development frameworks being used by youth serving organizations and government entities.
June 19, 2008
Forum Works with State Teams Across the Country to Improve Youth Policy
The Forum, along with the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, recently completed the Fourth Annual Youth Policy Institute. The Institutes bring together state policymakers and are designed to help state governments obtain better outcomes from their youth policies and programs.
June 19, 2008
State Children's Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results for Children and Youth
This paper serves as the introduction for the State Children's Cabinets and Councils Series, a set of reports intended to capture and organize the decisions and experiences of more than 20 children's cabinets and councils and present them against an emerging set of expectations about what the public and policy makers could and should expect from them.
December 13, 2007
2007 Roundtable on Children's Cabinets and Councils
Representatives from 11 states attended the Roundtable in April of 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa to share their experiences, ideas and challenges. Several special guests, including the Governor of Iowa, Chet Culver, the First Lady of Iowa, Mari Culver and Patricia Kempthorne, the Former First Lady of Idaho, joined the event as well.
April 1, 2007
Audio-Conference for Governor's Policy Advisors
Many policy advisors, chiefs of staff and even some Lt. Governors got on the phone to learn more as they think about shaping their work on children and youth.
March 7, 2007