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When Youth Feel Unsafe: Brief Insights on the Cognitive and Academic Effects of Exposure to Violence

February 22, 2018

This Point of View brief from the Center for Promise provides research insights on a particularly timely topic - violence in America's schools - that is impacting young people in America. Learn more about this topic by reading this brief

Type: Resource

TAG: Gun Safety, Safe Schools, Mental Health

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Health and Wellness

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise

Action Platform: School Climate

The Promise of Comprehensive Community Initiatives

January 24, 2018

Comprehensive community initiatives (CCIs) are a potentially promising way to organize supports throughout a community and have attracted interest from philanthropy and public policymakers. Sometimes referred to as cradle-to-career initiatives or collective impact, CCIs are locally organized, multi-sector collaborations that build local capacity and coordinate resources towards a common, population-level goal. Many CCIs facilitate collaboration among health, education, business, and community-based organizations to improve the overall health and wellbeing of people in the community.

Type: Resource

promises: Effective Education

channels: Social and Emotional Learning

SOURCE: Weiss Institue, Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise

I Came Here to Learn

May 11, 2017

Students whose First Language is Not English (FLNE) make up the fastest growing segment of public school students across the country. In Massachusetts, one in five students is classified as FLNE. This report explores their experiences, challenges, and hopes for the future.

Type: Report

TAG: Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education

channels: Special Populations, Grad Rate Data

SOURCE: Center for Promise

Barriers to Success

March 30, 2017

While many young people in America continue to be bombarded by severe adversity, few receive the supports and resources they need to cope and succeed.

Type: Report

TAG: Youth Voice, Career Pathways, Special Populations

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

channels: Re-engaging Youth, Mentoring, College & Career

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Youth, Relationships, and Career Readiness

March 01, 2017

Two new reports explore how relationships impact young people at work and in life

Type: Report

TAG: College and Career Readiness, Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

channels: College & Career, Mentoring

SOURCE: Center for Promise, Citi Foundation

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

Barriers to Wellness

November 29, 2016

This report provides new insights into the obstacles to wellness young people of color face in five cities and brings young people’s voices and views into the discussion about what affects their health and wellness.

Type: Report

TAG: English Learners

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

channels: Social and Emotional Learning, Health and Wellness

SOURCE: Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: Center for Promise

Action Platform: Non-Academic Factors

Who’s Minding the Neighborhood?

October 04, 2016

The role of adult capacity in keeping young people on a path to graduation  

Type: Resource

TAG: Low-Income, Using Data, Black/African-American

promises: Effective Education

channels: Thriving

SOURCE: Center for Promise