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OUR WORK: A Framework for Accelerating Progress for Children and Youth in America
April 17, 2017
How can we take what’s been learned and accelerate progress for young people in America, especially for those young people who are most vulnerable? How can we create the conditions for success for more young people, more quickly? To answer these questions, America’s Promise reviewed research about what’s changed in the past 20 years in young people’s lives and in our understanding of youth development. We surveyed our network, spoke with young people, and interviewed more than 200 people representing nonprofits, corporations, foundations, research and policy entities, educational institutions, government, and other systems.
Source: America's Promise Alliance
Focus Areas: Family EngagementRe-engaging YouthYouth Involvement
Turning Points
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.
Source: Center for PromiseCiti Foundation
Focus Areas: Family EngagementYouth InvolvementCollege & Career
Center for Promise Squared
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.
Source: Center for Promise
Focus Areas: ThrivingFamily EngagementYouth InvolvementMentoring
Center for Promise Squared
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?

Source: Center for Promise
Focus Areas: Youth InvolvementCollege & Career
Center for Promise Squared
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.

Source: Center for Promise
Focus Areas: Re-engaging YouthYouth Involvement
Table 6: 2013 ACGR By State, Graduation Gap Between Low-Income and Non-Low-Income Students
January 01, 2016
Source: America's Promise Alliance
Focus Areas: Youth Involvement
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