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Tucker, Laura Packard; Dworsky, Amy; Van Drunen, Molly – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2020
The Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP) in Alameda County, California blends service coordination, intensive case management, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help transition-age youth in foster care engage with available support systems and subsequently improve their outcomes. As part of a formative evaluation of YTP, Chapin Hall…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Foster Care, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness
Johnson, Royel M.; Strayhorn, Terrell L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2019
Foster youth are among some of the nation's most underserved students in higher education. Of the more than 430,000 youth in the foster care system, only about 50% will graduate from high school and as little as 3% will ever earn a bachelor's degree (Pecora, 2012; Wolanin, 2005). While critically important for smoothing students' transition from…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Youth Programs, Outreach Programs, At Risk Persons
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2018
This toolkit was developed as a resource to help young people in juvenile corrections and treatment programs prepare for reentry and success in the community. The purpose of this guide is to encourage re-entry youth to begin thinking and planning for success at the earliest point possible while in placement. As such, the guide is organized into…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Correctional Rehabilitation, Reentry Students, Youth Programs
MacFarlane, Jaclyn R.; Turner, Tandra T.; Russell, Christina A. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2018
Funded through the New York City Young Men's Initiative (YMI), the Cornerstone Mentoring Program is designed to support youth in key life and educational transitions as they progress into middle and high school, through the development of relationships with positive and caring adults. Launched in 2012, the mentoring program is implemented in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Community Development, Community Programs, Youth
Russell, Christina A.; Francis, Yavette – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2018
The New York City Young Men's Initiative (YMI) is a cross-agency initiative that aims to address the disparities in socioeconomic outcomes between young Black and Latino men and their peers. In support of this vision, the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) launched a mentoring program in its Cornerstone Community…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Youth, Learner Engagement, Peer Relationship
Andrew Wiegand; Michelle Manno; Sengsouvanh Leshnick; Louisa Treskon; Christian Geckeler; Heather Lewis-Charp; Castle Sinicrope; Mika Clark; Brandon Nicholson – MDRC, 2015
YouthBuild is intended to help high school dropouts, ages 16 to 24, who face an array of impediments to their educational and employment success as they progress into adulthood. Stemming from one program launched in the late 1970s, today over 270 YouthBuild programs operate nationwide. YouthBuild is a principles-based model that values a…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Adolescents, Young Adults, Youth Programs
Walker, Janet S.; Gowen, L. Kris – Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures, 2011
This white paper begins by describing recent theory and research on positive development, particularly as it applies to older adolescents and young or â€oeemerging†adults with serious mental health conditions. The next sections of the paper describe a series of empirically-supported and promising programs that are specifically designed to serve…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Positive Behavior Supports, Youth, Young Adults
Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond. Dept. of Correctional Services. – 1988
A national phone survey was conducted by the Eastern Kentucky University Training Resource Center to determine how states were addressing the problems associated with the transition of youth from correctional facilities to their home communities. The survey, which was conducted during March-May 1987, asked chief state juvenile correctional…
Descriptors: Caseworkers, Community Programs, Correctional Institutions, Delinquency
Fraser, Bryna Shore; Charner, Ivan – 1993
Factors such as the widespread corporate restructuring of the 1980s, international pressures, and technological advancement have created a youth employment crisis. Schools cannot singlehandedly educate students for the new jobs of the 1990s because they lack the understanding of today's workplace needs, technology, and funding. Employers,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Cooperative Planning
Adler, Laurel; And Others – 1995
The Los Angeles Area Business/Education Partnership provides numerous services designed to encourage youths who have been identified as being at high risk of dropping out of school to complete high school and continue in a formal postsecondary education program. Among the services offered by the partnership are the following: clustered…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Community Programs

American Youth Policy Forum, Washington, DC. – 1997
This compendium contains evaluation briefs on 49 youth programs that were assessed by the American Youth Policy Forum. The programs were selected because they demonstrate that careful application of the following principles can lead to powerful results for youth: adult support, structure, and expectations; creative forms of learning; combination…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Academies, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs
Gaylord, Vicki, Ed. – Institute on Community Integration (NJ1), 2004
This issue of the quarterly publication focuses on Achieving Secondary Education and Transition Results for Students with Disabilities. Editorial introduction notes that today's educational systems are being called upon to re-examine how they prepare students with disabilities for adult life. The shift toward greater participation by students with…
Descriptors: Community Services, Nontraditional Education, Disabilities, Accountability