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Briefs

11/20/2006
 
Academic and Workforce Development Programs for Court-Involved Youth, A Youth Development Approach with Thomas M. Buzbee, Executive Director, Gulf Coast Trades Center, (TX); and Joe McLaughlin, Court Employment Project Director, CASES (NY). (forum BRIEF)
5/15/2006
Schools for a New Society Roundtable Discussion with Rochelle Nichols-Solomon, Director, Schools for a New Society Technical Assistance Program, Academy of Educational Development; Donnie Evans, Superintendent, Providence Public Schools (RI); Mary Harrison, Executive Director, Rhode Island Children's Crusade (RI), Jesse Register, Superintendent, Hamilton County Department of Education (TN); Dan Challener, Public Education Foundation, Chattanooga (TN); and Mindy Hernandez, Carneige Corporation of New York (NY). (Forum brief)
4/07/2006
How Do High School Students Get Academic, Leadership, Work Skills, and Still Manage to Serve the Community? With students and faculty from Howenstine High School, Tucson (AZ). (Forum brief)
3/28/2003
How Youth Become Effective Citizens – Models for Engaging Youth in Policy, with Ben Smilowitz, youth leader, Quentin Wilson, Missouri State Commissioner of Higher Education, and other youth leaders from San Francisco and the State of Missouri. (Forum Brief)
10/4/2002
Philadelphia Youth Voice Project, with Barbara Ferman and Catherine Cavanaugh, University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia, Temple University, Mike Sack, Youth Empowerment Services, and Susan Goldberger, Jobs for the Future. (Forum Brief)
9/20/2002
Innovative State Strategies To Promote Youth Development. Co-Sponsored by AYPF and the National Governors Association (NGA). Thomas MacLellan, Policy Analyst, Center for Best Practices, National Governors Association (NGA), will moderate a panel including three members of NGA’s Youth Policy Network: Glenn Daly, Director of the Office of Youth Development at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health & Human Services; Sally A. Herrick, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Youth Development, New York State Office of Children & Family Services; and Quentin Wilson, Cabinet Secretary for Governor Holden of Missouri. (Forum Brief)
5/17/2002
Youth Action for Educational Change, Eric Braxton, Director of the Philadelphia Student Union, Oona Chaterjee, Co-founder, Make the Road by Walking, Barbara Cervone, Executive Director, What Kids Can Do, and Merita Irby, Deputy Director, and Joel Tolman, Program Coordinator, Forum for Youth Investment. (Forum Brief)
1/25/2002
Youth Councils: Strategies for Comprehensive Youth Policies, with Irene Lynn, Director of the Office of Youth Opportunities; Marion Pines, Director of the Sar Levitan Center for Policy Studies; Karen Sitnick, Director of the Mayor's Office of Employment Development in Baltimore, MD; and Nathan Powell, the Workforce Development Liaison. (Forum Brief)
6/14/1999
MORE Things DO Make a Difference For Youth, with Donna Walker James, American Youth Policy Forum, Joanne Jastrzab, Abt Associates, Sherry Kaiman, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensionand Charles Barone, Office of Representative George Miller. (Forum Brief)
11/14/1997
Youth As Resources: A New Approach to Juvenile Justice, with Jack Calhoun, National Crime Prevention Council. (Forum Brief)
10/18/1996
Can Schools Help Build the Entrepreneurial Economy? Lessons from the Real (Rural Entrepreneurship Through Action Learning) Experience, with Rick Larson, National Director, REAL, and Tyler Gardner, a 1996 graduate of the REAL program in Broadus, Montana, and now a small business owner. (Forum Brief)
9/20/1996
Positive Findings in New Study of Youth Corps, with Jo Ann Jastrzab, Abt Associates. (Forum Brief)

Trip Reports

5/31/2005-
6/1/2005
Site Visit to Boston, MA , with visits to Another Course to College, Boston Community Leadership Academy, Hyde Square Task Force, Boston Collegiate Charter School, and Boston Day and Evening Academy and meetings with Superintendent Payzant and the partners in the high school reform efforts. (TRIP REPORT)
4/22/2005
Latin American Youth Center's YouthBuild Program. One day field trip in Washington, DC to explore the work of this dynamic, multi-faceted community-based organization and its impact on young people. (Trip Report)
11/6/2002
Visit to DC Youth Opportunity Grant Demonstration Project: A Site Visit to two Youth Opportunity Centers funded by the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services Youth Opportunity Grant. Meeting with Special Assistant to the Director of D.C. DOES and the Director of the DC Youth Opportunity Initiative and visits to the Latin American Youth Center and the United Planning Organization. (Trip Report)
10/20/2002 -
10/23/2002
Youth-and Community-Driven Policies and Services San Francisco and Oakland, CA: A Site Visit to San Francisco and Oakland, CA. Participants will meet with influential child advocates, including young people themselves, who have spearheaded sweeping changes in the region’s youth policies. Site visits include Beacons programs and the East Bay Conservation Corps. (Trip Report)
7/18/2002
Friendship House and Covenant House in DC-the Role of Community Based Organizations in Providing Youth Services, Washington, DC. (Trip Report)
9/25/1998
Site Visit to Baltimore, Maryland: Learning in Action: Two Innovative Employment Training and Youth Development Programs, site visits to Baltimore City Fire Cadet Program and Fresh Start, a program within The Living Classrooms. (Trip Report)
7/25/1997
Technology and Innovation in Postsecondary Career Preparation, Hagerstown Junior College, Hagerstown, MD, including tours of the Technical Innovation Center and the Advanced Technology Center. (Trip Report)

Publications


View PDF		 Building an Effective Citizenry:
Lessons Learned From Initiatives in Youth Engagement
In 2002-2003, American Youth Policy Forum conducted a series of forums and field trips, each focused on issues related to the development of effective citizenry and youth engagement. Participants in these experiences had the opportunity to learn about the wide variety of work currently taking place to help young people take action in their schools and communities and to become engaged and effective citizens. Researchers presented recent findings about youth civic engagement, and leaders from youth organizations discussed their efforts to engage young people in education reform, service-learning, and community activism.

View PDF 		Shaping the Future of American Youth:
Youth Policy in the 21st Century
In that spirit, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) decided to celebrate its Tenth Anniversary in January 2003 by inviting 14 of America’s leading experts on youth affairs analysts, activists, advocates, institution-builders to write the essays and commentaries in this volume. These leaders accepted our challenge to step back from the press of their fully committed working days and reconsider the development of their particular field of youth affairs over the past decade, take a leap into the future, and sketch their personal hopes and visions for a positive and creative future for American youth in the decade ahead.

View PDF 		Finding Common Ground:  Service-Learning and Education Reform
A new AYPF report reveals areas of compatibility between Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) programs leaders in education reform and elements of service-learning. For example, most CSR programs (or models) in the report provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and skills to real-life situations, address local community issues and interests, and develop civic skills and competencies. There has been a suspected compatibility between service-learning and CSR, but no one has asked CSR models directly until now. It remains to be seen whether these two educational movements collaborate to develop a unified approach to linking classroom academics to service in school or the community, providing a truly comprehensive education for America’s children and youth.