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Turning Points: How Young People in Four Career Pathways Programs Describe the Relationships that Shape Their Lives

March 01, 2017

Turning Points builds on the programmatic insights from Relationships Come First by asking young people enrolled in career pathways programs in four cities – Café Momentum in Dallas; Per Scholas in the Bronx, Urban Alliance in Washington, DC, and Year Up in the Bay Area – to  describe how the relationships in their lives shape their development.

Type: Resource

TAG: Career Pathways, College and Career Readiness

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Family Engagement, Youth Involvement, College & Career

SOURCE: Center for Promise, Citi Foundation

Defining Webs of Support: A New Framework to Advance Understanding of Relationships and Youth Development

March 01, 2017

In this brief, the authors present a web of support framework to describe how youth relate to adults and peers in their lives, and how these relationships provide the supports necessary for young people to thrive. This framework is composed of three key layers, each of which contributes to a young person’s development: relationships, resources, and networks/social capital.

Type: Resource

TAG: Youth Voice, Youth Involvement

promises: Caring Adults

channels: Thriving, Family Engagement, Youth Involvement, Mentoring

SOURCE: Center for Promise

Relationships Come First: How Four Career Development and Workforce Readiness Programs Prepare Young People for Work and Life

December 15, 2016

What role do relationships play in fostering workforce development and career readiness among ‘risk-immersed’ youth?

Type: Resource

TAG: College and Career Readiness

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others

channels: Youth Involvement, College & Career

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Blended Learning Offers Promise as a Strategy for Re-engaging Students

April 07, 2016

This paper presents a landscape analysis of how blended learning currently is being used as a strategy to serve young adults, age 16-24, who have re-engaged in education in an effort to obtain a high school diploma or equivalency. The analysis is based on a review of relevant empirical research and interviews with program developers, practitioners and policy makers in the field.  Contributing to a nascent body of literature, this report highlights examples of how blended learning is being implemented in schools and community-based organizations.

Type: Resource

TAG: Youth Involvement

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: Re-engaging Youth, Youth Involvement

SOURCE: Center for Promise