National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education and Families
Contact Information:
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Audrey Hutchinson, Program Director Andrew Moore, Senior Consultant Institute for Youth, Education and Families |
Description of Organization |
The Institute for Youth, Education, and Families is a special entity within the National League of Cities that helps municipal leaders take action on behalf of the children, youth, and families in their communities. As a national resource to cities and towns across America, the Institute provides guidance and assistance to municipal officials, compiles and disseminates information on promising strategies and best practices, builds networks of local officials working on similar issues, and conducts research on the key challenges facing municipalities. |
Dropout Recovery Related |
Two parts of a multi-facetedYEF Institute effort supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are particularly relevant. 1) The YEF Institute serves as co-coordinary of the Alternative High School Initiative along with The Big Picture Company. In this capacity, the YEF Institute is assessing local policy implications of efforts toexpand options and alternatives for high school, and the role ofpolicies at city and other levels in supporting or hindering expansion. The Institute will produce a report on local policy levers, isdeveloping a set of policy tools toclarify policy issues and priorities from the perspective of the national and regional intermediary organizations that constitute AHSI, and may help support joint policy strategies by the intermediaries. 2) The YEF Institute recently completed a two-year project to provide technical assistance to five cities -- Hartford, Phoenix, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and San Jose -- assisting municipal leaders in those cities as they work with school districts and other partners to expand options and alternatives for high school. In addition, NLC is launching a project to provide technical assistance to several cities in cross-system collaboration to re-engage out-of-school and other disconnected youth. The promising practices these cities will be encouraged to adopt are based on those identified in a forthcoming NLC publication describing findings from case studies of municipally-led cross-system collaboration in eight cities. |
Action Kits for municipal leaders on Reengaging Disconnected Youth and Improving Public Schools Lessons Learned report, Stronger Schools, Stronger Cities High School Reform program area Disconnected Youth program area
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