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Establishing a Balanced Set of Goals: Guiding the Way Webinar Recording

Participants were introduced to activities for building agreement and heard about potential indicators for goals across developmental years and the range of outcomes, as developed by the Forum and Child Trends.

Presenters: Suzanne Hershey, Senior Fellow, the Forum for Youth Investment and former Facilitator of the Ready by 21 initiative, Austin, Tex.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Short Description: 
Conceiving goals and indicators is easy. The challenge is getting community leaders to agree on goals and indicators that cover all young people of all age groups, in all aspects of their lives—from education and health to interpersonal skills and job readiness.
Capacity Area: 
Bigger Goals
Audience Sector: 
Advocacy
Non‐profit/Foundation
Scope: 
City
Focus: 
Urban
Region: 
Southwest
Standards : 
Establish a balanced set of goals and indicators for all children, youth and young adults
Define supports that the full community must provide
Create a big picture, goal-oriented action plan
Define common terms and communicate core messages

Connecting the Dots: Data Sharing in States and Communities to Better Connect Youth Services Webinar Recording

This growing network of providers creates a greater incentive for the families, city agencies, nonprofits and neighborhood-based organizations to collaborate. It also multiplies the management challenge. Without effective systems to coordinate these services and measure their impact, these provider networks are subject to the same service gaps and duplications of effort that afflict all large systems of care. In this webinar our speakers focused on efforts to align community and state data, and about tools to improve effectiveness.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Short Description: 
Many leaders and educators are adopting strategies to expand the learning day, develop deep partnerships in the community and provide a range of supportive out-of-school time programs. The success of these initiatives hinges not on any single investment or organization, but on their collective impact on the student. The student, rather than the school, is increasingly at the center of how communities think about and measure their results.
Partner: 
Forum for Youth Investment
Capacity Area: 
Better Data and Decisions
Audience Sector: 
Government/Policy
Scope: 
City
Focus: 
Urban
Region: 
Midwest
Standards : 
Align and connect data for decision-making

Engaging Key Stakeholders: Chattanooga Connections Webinar

These leaders need to be committed and collaborative in ways that contribute to the overarching mission of the group. This webinar explored the local partnership efforts in Chattanooga, Tenn. and the tools from three Ready by 21 Partners - Corporate Voices for Working Families, United Way Worldwide and the American Association of School Administrators.

Location

Chattanooga, TN
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Short Description: 
To really change the odds for children and youth, your community needs the involvement of its influential leaders from all sectors. That includes education, business, government, nonprofits and families. “Involvement” goes beyond signing up and saying “Call me when you want something.”
Partner: 
American Association of School Administrators
Corporate Voices for Working Families
Forum for Youth Investment
United Way Worldwide
Capacity Area: 
Broader Partnerships
Scope: 
City
Focus: 
Rural
Standards : 
Build an overarching leadership council
Align and strengthen coalitions, commissions and intermediaries
Engage key stakeholders in setting priorities and solving problems

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
Search Institute
United Way Worldwide
Capacity Area: 
Bolder Actions
Audience Sector: 
Youth and Families
Age Group: 
Middle School Age
Secondary School Age
Older Youth
Scope: 
Neighborhood
City
State
Standards : 
Engage youth, families and community members in solutions

Improving Systems and Settings: Quality Improvement in Asheville

Monday, January 30, 2012
Short Description: 
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.
Partner: 
David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality
Forum for Youth Investment
United Way Worldwide
Capacity Area: 
Bolder Actions
Audience Sector: 
Non‐profit/Foundation
Age Group: 
Middle School Age
Secondary School Age
Scope: 
City
State

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: 
Broader Partnerships
Audience Sector: 
Advocacy
Business
Education (K-12)
Education (Post-Secondary)
Government/Policy
Non‐profit/Foundation
Youth and Families
Scope: 
City
State
Standards : 
Build an overarching leadership council
Align and strengthen coalitions, commissions and intermediaries
Engage key stakeholders in setting priorities and solving problems

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