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Explore this collection of tools, reports, guides and other materials selected from across the expertise of the Ready by 21 National Partnership. You can search for specific resources using the filters on the left side and find items specific to your work.
Webinar
January 30, 2012
Tagged in: City, Better Data and Decisions, County, Education (K-12), Middle School Age, Collect complete data about youth outcomes, community supports and leadership actions, Webinar
To make good decisions, leaders need complete data from all the settings and systems where young people spend their time. They need information about youths’ physical and mental health, afterschool activities, employment and family structure, and more. Better data helps leaders use their resources more efficiently and effectively.
Webinar
January 30, 2012
Tagged in: Neighborhood, City, Middle School Age, Bolder Actions, Secondary School Age, State, Older Youth, Youth and Families, Webinar, Engage youth, families and community members in solutions
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.
Webinar
January 30, 2012
Tagged in: City, Middle School Age, Bolder Actions, Secondary School Age, State, Non‐profit/Foundation, Webinar
Healthy behavior, staying in school, problem-solving skills - these are among the outcomes we all want to see in our young people. It is always encouraging to be able to point to a new mentoring initiative, a great afterschool program or a really innovative school, but to achieve community- and state-wide impact, you need to do something bigger.
Policy Paper
January 11, 2012
Tagged in: Advocacy, Bigger Goals, Government/Policy, National, Policy Paper, Align policies and resources
To have a collective impact on child and youth outcomes, leaders must develop and implement a broad, long-term child and youth strategy, and be accountable for results. This can be a challenge. Policies often require the creation of strategic plans that are organized around a single, narrow topic. Instead of working toward collective impact, policy leaders end up generating separate sets of goals and plans, which fragment their efforts. This guide provides a set of strategies and recommendations to ensure that new child and youth policies align with existing efforts in order to create a seamless system of supports.
Webinar
December 19, 2011
Tagged in: Bigger Goals, Engage key stakeholders in setting priorities and solving problems, Government/Policy, National, Webinar
Materials and a webinar about the impact of expanding learning time on schools and youth-serving organizations.