Youth and Families

This tool was created in order to help young people and adults develop a common language for talking about how to improve schools. The tool provides educators, young people, administrators, policy makers, parents, community members and other stake holders with a common lens for reflecting on their schools and for planning change. It can also be useful in assessing the range of reform models and change strategies underway in a district or school at any given time.

Partner:

Forum for Youth Investment

Capacity Area:

Bolder Actions

Audience Sector:

Education (K-12)

Education (Post-Secondary)

Age Group:

Scope:

Focus:

Standards :

Engage youth, families and community members in solutions

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Implementing Bolder Strategies: Engaging Youth, Families and Community Leaders As Changemakers

Leaders need to engage youth and families as organizers, planners, advocates by ensuring ongoing opportunities for leadership and participation. It‟s important to have strategies that reach all, not just a few. This webinar discussed ways to ensure that your work engages youth and families to the fullest.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Short Description:

Leaders generate public demand, support and innovative ideas when they have regular mechanisms for seeking youth and family input and support and have developed a process for maintaining youth and family influence on policy decisions, philanthropy, practice and entrepreneurship.

Partner:

America’s Promise Alliance

Forum for Youth Investment

Capacity Area:

Audience Sector:

Age Group:

Scope:

Standards :

Engage youth, families and community members in solutions

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Broader Partnerships 101

After years of working with a wide variety of partnerships at the state and local level, the Forum for Youth Investment has concluded that communities and states need to consider a few basic components of partnerships. This webinar explained about this leadership capacity area and what you can do to build broader, more effective partnerships.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Short Description:

Partnerships and collaborations can take many forms. Whatever the scale of the partnership, effective partnerships are built on clear agreements about the scope of work to be done, the capacity needed to do the work and the mandate or authority in place to ensure that the work is done thoroughly and well.

Partner:

Forum for Youth Investment

Capacity Area:

Audience Sector:

Education (Post-Secondary)

Government/Policy

Non‐profit/Foundation

Youth and Families