Advocacy and Communications
Business Leadership: Supporting Youth Development and the Talent Pipeline
The Forum for Youth Investment has partnered with Corporate Voices for Working Families to support a Youth Transitions Task Force charged with identifying and promoting the corporate and public policies necessary to ensure that young people ages 14-21 have the opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge needed to be successful in work and in life.
New Hampshire: 2004 Children's Agenda End of Legislative Session Report
Click here for the 2004 Legislative Report highlighting suicide prevention, under health and wellness.
Pennsylvania: Life as a Teenager - Graduation Gap
Every year in Pennsylvania, one out of five high school students fails to graduate. Of the 153,523 ninth graders who started high school in 2000-01, those not reaching graduation four years later (2003-04) totaled 33,349 or 21.7 percent - more than one in five students.
Bringing Principles into Policies: Taking the Youth Development Movement to the Statehouse
The challenge for the 1990s was to get youth development principles adopted into the mainstream discussions of what young people need, do and offer. The challenge for the next decade is to get these ideas embedded in public policy — not as new pieces of legislation, but as lenses and frames that guide policy analysis, prioritization and decision making.
Audio Conference: Out-of-School Time: High School After-School and School Reform (9/21/2005)
On September 21, the Forum brought together several national experts to address key questions around the connections between the high school reform and after-school movements.
Audioconference: Moving Youth Policy Forward -- Lesson Learned (4/10/2006)
Policy makers across the country have stepped up their efforts to address key challenges facing our young people.
Conference Call: What's Next for Child and Youth Advocacy?
On December 14, 2006, The Forum for Youth Investment, along with Voices for America's Children, Kids Count, and the National Conference of State Legislatures, hosted conference call for state child and youth advocates to discuss what the changing political landscape means for child and youth advocacy.<!--break-->
Attached are notes from the call.
Conference Call: Communications for Youth Advocates (2/14/07)
The Forum for Youth Investment, along with Voices for America's Children and Kids Count, hosted a conference call for youth advocates on communications and messaging on February 14th. The call featured Kristen Grimm, president of Spitfire Strategies, and Ann Lochner, director of the Applied Research Collaborative on Youth Development at the University of Minnesota.
