Forum Focus

Forum Focus was a regular insert in Youth Today that was published five times a year. Each issue focused on a different topic in the child and youth field and compiled research updates, stories of work on the ground and interviews with voices from the field.

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Forum Focus: What's Health Got to Do With It?

For youth workers and youth-serving organizations, making a commitment to improve adolescent health outcomes can be as complex as making a commitment to improving academic achievement. Health, like education, has an entire system behind it.

05/01/2005
Forum Focus: Revisiting Risk in the 21st Century

02/01/2005
Forum Focus: What Gets Measured, Gets Done

11/15/2004
Forum Focus: Education Pipeline

09/01/2004
Forum Focus: Countering Structural Racism

In this issue, we continue to explore how youth activism can be used as a powerful tool for increasing both personal development and collective engagement around the issues of race and racism.

07/01/2004
Forum Focus: Youth Act: Community Impact

05/14/2004
Forum Focus: High School: The Next Frontier for After-School Advocates?

02/15/2004
Forum Focus: A Portfolio Approach to Youth Policy

11/14/2003
Forum Focus: Community Partnerships for Learning: Blurring the Lines

In this issue, we explore how community partnerships to support formal learning and development matter and how they can be created and sustained.

09/15/2003
Forum Focus: Quality Counts

In this first issue of Forum Focus, we summarize emerging research and practical evidence that quality matters and push forward to ask the questions: Is quality measurable? Is it malleable? We bring a youth-centered lens to our review, looking for examples that define quality from the perspective of what young people need to heal, grow and contribute.

08/01/2003