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Case Study: Holistic Approaches to Helping Young People Succeed

July 14, 2020

In this case study, you will find concrete examples of the ways in which these exemplar states and communities are putting people over programs and establishing structures for holistic support for students. Specifically, the communities highlighted in this brief are prioritizing supports for newcomer English learners, youth with physical and mental health challenges, youth facing the impacts of poverty, and youth experiencing trauma.

Type: Resource

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League

Community Partnership In Action

July 19, 2019

“We actually don’t have the answers, the answers are in communities and in the people we are investing in. They are the key to unlocking solutions.” -- Darren Walker

Type: News

TAG: How Learning Happens, SEL, Youth Engagement, Cross-sector collaboration

promises: Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League, Youth Re-Engagement

Relationships Shine at the Jobs for Michigan’s Graduates Career Development Day

May 09, 2019

The chatter of hundreds of high school students, teachers, mentors, and community volunteers fill the Lansing Convention Center in Lansing, Mich. with a hum of excitement. The students are about to face off in a series of competitions. Not as part of a spelling bee or sports event, but as a test of their employability skills.

Type: Opinion

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Action Platform: Pathways, Greater Stark County Urban League

Embracing a Different Approach: How Some St. Louis School Districts are Connecting Health, Education

January 02, 2019

A recent situation involving a first-grade student in the University City School District prompted teachers and administrators to consider an unconventional approach. Rather than immediately focus on any instruction or behavior in the classroom, the district sought to provide the student and his family with basic needs – a trip to the doctor, food and toiletry items.

Type: News

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League

Youth Voice: How Limited Representation of Black Men Almost Limited My Life

May 31, 2018

To make matters worse, coaches and peers encouraged me to continue playing sports because it could pay for my education. So I spent countless hours and days training and practicing in different sports, hoping to land an athletic scholarship…which took away from any participation in extracurricular activities and volunteering experience that aligns with my current career aspirations.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Youth Voice, Black/African-American, School Discipline, Using Data, College Gap

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: School Climate, Greater Stark County Urban League

Youth Speak Out at the Atlantic Education Summit

May 21, 2018

“I’ve always thought that we need to prepare our students for the world, but I’m learning so quickly that we need to prepare the world for our students,” said Christina Cody, a science teacher and founder of the youth health initiative FIT2gether, at the recent Atlantic Education Summit.

Type: News

TAG: Safe Schools, Healthy Schools, Youth Voice

promises: Effective Education, Safe Places, A Healthy Start

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy, GradNation Campaign

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League, School Climate

A Powerful Generation

April 04, 2018

Though students at Thurgood Marshall Academy see the recent March for Our Lives rally as a symbolic moment, they know that long-term change takes time. After all, their school gets its name from the man who helped make school segregation illegal and challenged the separate but equal doctrine on which it stood for more than half a century.

Type: News

TAG: Youth Voice, Safe Schools, Healthy Schools

promises: Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, Every School Healthy

Action Platform: School Climate, Greater Stark County Urban League

Food for thought: Students’ test scores rise a few weeks after families get food stamps

March 27, 2018

Families receiving food stamps get their benefits once a month. A few weeks later, kids’ test scores tick up. The pattern, revealed by a new study of thousands of North Carolina families, suggests that the additional access to healthy food helps students do better in school.

Type: News

TAG: Low-Income, Family Engagement

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League

What’s Working: Four Factors Fueling the Rise of Graduation Rates

March 22, 2018

In September 2017, the GradNation campaign released the Acceleration Grant opportunity to fund state- and community-level proposals poised to graduate students who are currently less likely to graduate from high school. Out of 106 applications, we were encouraged to see that communities and states are using these four factors to inform their work.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Family Engagement, Using Data, Grad Rate Data

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation Acceleration Initiative

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League, Central Georgia Technical College Foundation 

Convener and Catalyst: Community Leader Spotlight with the Mayor’s Office for Children, Youth, and Families

December 12, 2017

Mindy Sturm serves as the director of the Mayor’s Office for Children, Youth, and Families (MOCYF) in Charleston, South Carolina. MOCYF focuses on improving the conditions for children, mobilizing resources in the community to work on their behalf, and developing strategies to support children, youth and families.

Type: News

TAG: Using Data

promises: Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Action Platform: Greater Stark County Urban League