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Community Leader Spotlight with West Virginia’s Promise - The Alliance for Youth

September 26, 2018

West Virginia’s Promise is a statewide program that mobilizes partners to strengthen the capacity of local communities to develop and support young people.

Type: News

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, Opportunities to Help Others

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

Must Reads: A Priest, a Pediatrician, and Other Leaders on the Importance of Relationships to Young People

September 13, 2018

Over the past few months, there have been a series of articles, books, and materials by thought-leaders both in and outside of the youth development sector that help underscore the centrality of relationships in a young person’s life.

Type: Opinion

TAG: Family Engagement

promises: Caring Adults

This Back-to-School Season, Let’s Not Forget that Hope Matters

September 06, 2018

As millions of young people begin a new school year, many parents and adults are no doubt worried about how well they’ll fare. From concerns about screen time to college and career readiness, there are plenty of headlines that fret over the well-being of young people.

Type: Opinion

promises: Caring Adults, Safe Places, Opportunities to Help Others, A Healthy Start, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

The Link Between Suspensions, Expulsions, and Dropout Rates

September 05, 2018

A preponderance of research shows that suspensions and expulsions do little to change behavior and can push students out of school altogether. For instance, being suspended just one time in the ninth grade is related to an increased risk of dropping out. Suspension can increase the chance of leaving school prior to graduation from 16 percent to a 32 percent.

Type: Opinion

TAG: School Discipline

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

This Suicide Prevention Day, Young People Lead the Charge

September 05, 2018

From creating apps to organizing support groups to making resources more widely available, here’s how four young advocates are leading efforts to improve mental health for their generation.

Type: News

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Safe Places, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy

Community Leader Spotlight with the Mobile Area Education Foundation

August 29, 2018

“Good is not great, and greatness is an expectation.” 

Type: News

TAG: STEM, Using Data, College and Career Readiness

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation, National Alliance

Getting Into College Is Tough for First-Generation College Students, So I’m Making It a Little Easier

August 29, 2018

As a first-generation college student, I found myself doing everything on my own, without any family support and knowing very little of what was entailed in both applying and getting into college.

Type: Opinion

TAG: College Gap

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, GradNation State Activation

Get Involved in the Fight Against Chronic Absence

August 21, 2018

When students aren’t in school, they miss out on important developmental and educational opportunities. For Attendance Awareness Month this September, advocates encourage communities across the country to band together to fight chronic absence.

Type: News

TAG: Using Data, Healthy Schools

promises: Effective Education, Caring Adults, A Healthy Start, Safe Places

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign, National Alliance, Every School Healthy

What Advice Would You Give Yourself as a College Freshman?

August 09, 2018

If you could go back in time and give just one piece of advice to yourself as a college freshman, what would it be? That’s the question the staff here at America’s Promise answered. As millions of young people prepare to enter their freshman year of college this summer, we wanted to reflect on what we wish we had known.  So here are a few pieces of meaningful advice we would give ourselves —and by extension, to all the nervous and excited soon-to-be college freshmen out there right now.  

Type: News

promises: Caring Adults, Effective Education

campaigns & initiatives: GradNation Campaign

The Underrated Healing Power of a Healthy Relationship

August 08, 2018

For centuries, religion and science have regularly found themselves at odds in defining the essential truths of our world—a debate that, of course, continues today. So, we should take note when distinguished leaders in those two, often-conflicting domains find themselves arriving at the same conclusion about a fundamental question: how do we out more struggling young people on a path toward success?

Type: Opinion

TAG: Healthy Schools

promises: Caring Adults

campaigns & initiatives: Every School Healthy