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Youth Voice: Stella’s Career Journey

January 30, 2020

Being looked over or outright ignored when you know that you have the credentials and a commitment to a company isn’t the best feeling in the world. It’s really degrading to be judged, rejected or not even acknowledged because of your sexual identity.

Type: Opinion

campaigns & initiatives: Yes - Action Round Tables

The Importance of Youth Voice on the Hopi Reservation

January 22, 2020

For over two years, I have reached out to individuals from all walks of life from the reservation. One thing I experienced growing up on the Hopi Reservation, and now have seen firsthand in my work, is that being a younger member of the community comes with its challenges.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Yes - Action Round Tables

campaigns & initiatives: Yes - Action Round Tables

Youth Employment Programs Build the Future Talent Pipeline and Lead Youth to Future Success

November 19, 2019

The experiences of organizations working with Capital Workforce Partners (CWP) exemplify how a focus on youth employment has a lasting, positive impact on the lives of young people, as evidenced in the Capitol Region of Connecticut. That’s why CWP Is partnering with America’s Promise Alliance to host the Northeast Youth Employment Conference.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Yes - Action Round Tables

campaigns & initiatives: Yes - Action Round Tables

Thrive Chicago: Changing the Conversation Around Retail Employment

November 08, 2019

A youth’s biggest transition into adulthood, is shifting from high school into the oftentimes scary, “Real World.” From college to studying a trade to entering public service or the military to landing full-time employment, there are many paths that a teenager can take, depending on the resources available. 

Type: Opinion

TAG: Yes - Action Round Tables

campaigns & initiatives: Yes - Action Round Tables

Greeley Evans: A Whole Community Approach to Student Retention & Engagement

November 01, 2019

America’s Promise leads the GradNation Acceleration Initiative, which includes work in three communities and two statewide programs to improve graduation rates for students from varying backgrounds, including students in foster care, low-income students, and English learners. Out of a large pool of applicants, Greeley-Evans School District 6 was selected at one of the acceleration communities.

Type: Opinion

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Finding Meaningful Employment on the Hopi Reservation

October 30, 2019

Growing up on the Hopi Reservation, I saw firsthand how few opportunities exist for young people and how difficult it can be to find meaningful employment on the reservation... Now I serve as the Coordinator for the Ancestral Lands Hopi program, I work to understand how to provide that same support for those young people and families who choose to work with me.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Yes - Action Round Tables

campaigns & initiatives: Yes - Action Round Tables

GradNation: A Decade of Progress & Lessons Learned

October 01, 2019

Rewind a decade. America’s graduation rate lingered under 75 percent and there was a clear sense that something needed to change. That’s when the GradNation campaign was born to unify and mobilize the nation to respond to the “dropout epidemic.”

Type: Opinion

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Georgia LEADS the Way With Educational Supports For Foster Youth

May 30, 2019

In 2017, in partnership with the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, the Multi-Agency Alliance for Children (MAAC) began an educational coordination pilot called LEADS (Learn, Educate, Achieve, Dream, Succeed) with the goal of continuing the work of Project Graduate to increase high school graduation rates for students in foster care in Fulton and DeKalb counties—the counties where Atlanta sits.

Type: Opinion

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

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

Mentoring and Young People in Foster Care: Why Relationships Matter

May 08, 2019

BEST Kids is a nonprofit organization that provides one-on-one mentoring for over 150 youth in foster care in the Washington DC Metro area. We match caring and consistent adult mentors with youth to provide them not only the guidance and support they need to grow up, but also to help them navigate challenges specific to growing up in foster care.

Type: Opinion

promises: Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign