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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

Los Angeles Opportunity Youth Collaborative to Host Action Roundtable Aimed at Increasing Assistance for Transition-Age Foster Youth

January 22, 2020

Leaders from across Los Angeles County will gather today to make commitments in support of youth who are transitioning out of the foster care system because of their age. Los Angeles County has the nation’s largest foster-youth population, with more than 10,000 current and former foster youth ages 14 to 24.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Yes - Action Round Tables

campaigns & initiatives: Yes - Action Round Tables

Press Release Type: Press Release

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

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

These Are Our Children

June 28, 2019

The heartbreaking photo of Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his not-even-two-year old daughter, Valeria, made me want to simultaneously scream, envelop my own two young sons in a hug, and do something—anything—to help. Almost a year ago to the day, America’s Promise Alliance released a statement on the forced separation of children at the U.S. border. This image shows the appalling lack of progress we’ve made in a year.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Early Childhood, Special Populations, Hispanic/Latino

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth

January 29, 2019

I'm Going Back: The Re-Engagement Experiences of Tucson Youth was authored by Shannon Varga, Max Margolius, Catalina Tang Yan, Anna Skubel, Marissa L. Cole, and Jonathan F. Zaff, at the Center for Promise. This research is part of GradNation State Activation, an initiative of the GradNation campaign to raise high school graduation rates to 90 percent. WestEd is one of three grant recipients for this national effort. Pearson is the sole sponsor of this study and its dissemination.

Type: Report

TAG: Special Populations

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start

SOURCE: America's Promise Alliance, Pearson, Center for Promise

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

In Roughly 1,300 High Schools Across America, On-Time Graduation Still Elusive

October 04, 2018

After more than a decade of progress in improving high school graduation rates, there remain about 1,300 traditional high schools in need of serious improvement and redesign, according to new research from the GradNation campaign. Among them are more than 800 low-graduation-rate high schools with an average graduation rate of 49 percent.

Type: Press Release

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Low-Income, Hispanic/Latino, Rural

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Press Release Type: Press Release

Great American High School: Reforming the Nation’s Remaining Low-Performing High Schools

October 04, 2018

Type: Resource

TAG: Grad Rate Data, Using Data, Special Populations, Low-Income, Hispanic/Latino, Rural

promises: Effective Education

SOURCE: Civic, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Youth Voice: Redefining the Meaning of Intervention

July 31, 2018

Harsh discipline practices focus on assigning guilt, but restorative justice works to identify why something happened and what the student and the community needs in order to move forward. It allows young people to be viewed as the holistic individuals they are, and it builds a better foundation to start conversations around relationship-building.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Youth Voice, Special Populations, School Discipline

promises: Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation