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What Do You Want To Take Stock Of?: Exploring the Gallup Student Poll

This webinar discussed understanding youth outcomes through the Gallup Student Poll, a measure that tracks the hope, engagement and well-being of students in grades 5 through 12. Polly Lusk Page of the Northern Kentucky Education Council highlighted their recent survey findings and shared what they mean for their region.

Featured Speaker: Polly Lusk Page, Executive Director of the Northern Kentucky Education Council

 

Monday, January 30, 2012
Short Description: 
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.
Partner: 
Gallup
Capacity Area: 
Better Data and Decisions
Audience Sector: 
Education (K-12)
Age Group: 
Middle School Age
Scope: 
City
County
Standards : 
Collect complete data about youth outcomes, community supports and leadership actions

Credentialed by 26 Challenge

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Short Description: 
The Credentialed by 26 Challenge (March-October, 2011) helps selected communities increase supports for older youth – with an emphasis on helping more low-income, minority and first-generation college-goers obtain postsecondary credentials with labor market value.
Partner: 
Forum for Youth Investment
Age Group: 
Older Youth
Scope: 
City
County
Region: 
Mid‐Atlantic
Southeast
West & Northwest
Standards : 
Use the best information about what works
Improve systems and settings
Align policies and resources

Youth Program Quality Intervention Technical Assistance Brief

Friday, September 10, 2010
Short Description: 
The Youth Program Quality Intervention is the basis for numerous improvement projects around the country. The YPQI follows the Assess-Plan-Improve sequence to help programs focus on and improve the quality of program offerings they provide for youth. This brief describes the YPQI, focusing on how it can be implemented in a city, county or state network.
Partner: 
David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality
Capacity Area: 
Bolder Actions
Scope: 
City
County
State
Standards : 
Improve systems and settings

Core Principles for Engaging Young People in Community Change

The principles can be implemented in a wide range of organizations, including schools, youth organizations or community centers that want to strengthen their commitment to youth leadership, or community-change focused organzations or coalitions that want to strengthen their commitment to youth involvement.

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Short Description: 
Engaging young people as partners in community change is a compelling idea, but translating that idea into effective practice requires focused attention to a range of issues. They are important but simple principles for putting the idea of youth engagement into practice.
Partner: 
Forum for Youth Investment
Capacity Area: 
Bolder Actions
Audience Sector: 
Education (K-12)
Education (Post-Secondary)
Youth and Families
Age Group: 
Primary School Age
Secondary School Age
Older Youth
Scope: 
Neighborhood
City
County

Primer on Creating Effective Youth Panels

Based on the experience of facilitating youth panels, the feedback of young people involved and the Forum for Youth Investment's ongoing work around youth as agents of change, the Forum has created this short primer on creating student panels that aid in the process of reinventing high schools.

Youth voices are critical for several reasons:

Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Short Description: 
Youth voices are critical to decision making on issues such as school reform. This guide provides information on how youth panels can be a tool to meaningfully engage young people on an issue that directly affects them: improvements to their schools.
Partner: 
Forum for Youth Investment
Capacity Area: 
Bolder Actions
Audience Sector: 
Education (K-12)
Age Group: 
Secondary School Age
Scope: 
Neighborhood
City
County
Standards : 
Engage youth, families and community members in solutions

Building Effective Youth Councils

The Forum believes that meaningful youth engagement is critical for the creation of sustainable, widespread, high-impact change in the systems and settings that can either support or hinder young people’s progress.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Short Description: 
This publication, created by the Forum for Youth Investment with National League of Cities, provides a practical guide to engaging youth in policymaking. It provides a rationale for youth councils, keys to making them effective and examples of useful documents and language.
Partner: 
Forum for Youth Investment
Capacity Area: 
Bolder Actions
Audience Sector: 
Advocacy
Education (K-12)
Education (Post-Secondary)
Government/Policy
Youth and Families
Age Group: 
Secondary School Age
Older Youth
Scope: 
City
County
State
Standards : 
Engage youth, families and community members in solutions

New York State Office of Children and Family Services Effective and Promising Practices

Once communities have determined their desired outcomes, this website offers information regarding federal agencies or nationally recognized organizations that use different levels of criteria for identifying effective programs. This website may assist in identifying effective programs that may best match your needs.

http://www.ocfs.state.ny.us/main/sppd/eff_practices/links.asp

Friday, January 4, 2008
Short Description: 
This website is a one-stop resource on interventions that are considered to be effective and promising.
Capacity Area: 
Better Data and Decisions
Audience Sector: 
Education (K-12)
Government/Policy
Non‐profit/Foundation
Age Group: 
Young Children
Primary School Age
Secondary School Age
Scope: 
Neighborhood
City
County
State
Region: 
Northeast
Standards : 
Use the best information about what works

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