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America’s Promise curates a high-quality and diverse set of resources and data related to children and youth
Creating Cultures of Care: Supporting the Whole Child through Trauma-Informed Practice
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
This brief offers a framework for how trauma-informed practice complements positive youth development, while illustrating the bridge between theory and practice. You’ll read about the work of two…
Ready, Connected, Supported: A Framework for Youth Workforce Development and the YES Project
Thursday, January 9, 2020
Ready, Connected, Supported: A Framework for Youth Workforce Development and the YES Project, a working paper from the Center for Promise—the research arm of America’s Promise Alliance--provides an…
2019 Building A Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Raising High School Graduation Rates
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Authored by Civic and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, and released annually in partnership with the Alliance for Excellent Education and America’s…
Achieving a 90 Percent Graduation Rate Webinar: Making Effective Work-Based Learning Real for All Students
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
hear from Urban Alliance, which provides underserved high school seniors with training, internships, & mentoring that build the social, emotional, and cognitive skills they need to succeed in…
Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools: Resources to Support Policymakers and Advocates
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools provides state-by-state and issue-specific analyses of how state laws address the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Whole School, Whole Community,…
Responding to Trauma through Policies that Create Supportive Learning Environments
Thursday, January 31, 2019
This brief introduces a Trauma-Informed Policy Framework to Create Supportive Learning Environments to help state officials create supportive learning environments that meet the needs of students ...
State laws promoting social, emotional, and academic development leave room for improvement
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Policymakers increasingly recognize that social and emotional development plays a critical role in students’ ability to learn, and are enacting policies to encourage the integration of social and…
Creating Policies to Support Healthy Schools: Policymaker, Educator, and Student Perspectives
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Initiatives focused on improving aspects of students’ well-being in schools—such as addressing childhood obesity, preventing bullying, and restricting schools’ use of exclusionary discipline—are…
