Webinar to Focus on Building Better Systems of Out-of-School Time Programming

The YEF Institute will kick off its fall audioconference series with a free webinar entitled, “Hours of Opportunity: Insights from Cities’ Efforts to Build Citywide Afterschool Systems.”  The webinar will take place on Thursday, September 30, 2010, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time and will highlight a series of forthcoming reports entitled “Hours of Opportunity” commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and produced by RAND Education.
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Register Now for the BigTent Conference, Hosted by Search Institute

City leaders are invited to attend the first-ever BigTent Conference, an unprecedented gathering of youth-serving leaders, advocates and young people! The conference, which will take place November 18-20, 2010 in Houston, Texas, will include inspiring presentations, practical workshops, and celebratory community building to advance the health and well-being of families and children. 

The YEF Institute, along with dozens of other national youth-serving organizations, is partnering with conference host Search Institute for this exciting conference. Bringing together thousands of professionals and youth from all youth-serving sectors, this first of its kind, Asset-rich conference, will use their collective wisdom and energy to better focus on the success of children and youth.
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New Guide to Help Cities Promote Authentic Youth Civic Engagement

A new guide published by the YEF Institute with support from the Surdna Foundation provides a definition and framework for what authentic youth engagement in municipal government can look like. “Authentic Youth Civic Engagement: A Guide for Municipal Leaders” is informed by a year-long process in which the YEF Institute gathered and synthesized the knowledge and expertise of more than 300 youth development experts, academics, municipal leaders, community organization partners and young adult and youth leaders from across the nation through a series of focus groups, surveys and interviews conducted in 2008 and 2009. 
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New Report on Local Hiring Policies that Facilitate Reentry of People with Criminal Records

The YEF Institute has published a new Municipal Action Guide on "Promoting School Readiness by Improving Family, Friend and Neighbor Care," which highlights steps that city leaders can take to connect family, friend and neighbor (FFN)caregivers with the information, resources and support needed to promote early learning and healthy child development. These strategies were identified through a joint, two-year technical assistance initiative sponsored by the YEF Institute and United Way Worldwide with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  
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Youth Today’s new publisher, Sara Fritz, has announced that the respected newspaper and news website is planning to provide more coverage of city government-sponsored youth programs. Since it was founded in 1998, Youth Today has focused primarily on non-profit programs funded by foundations and the federal government. But Fritz, who succeeded founder Bill Treanor as the publisher, told the staff of the YEF Institute that she intends to broaden her news organization’s focus to showcase innovative programs and strategies developed by city governments. She invites NLC members and other YEF Institute registrants to send their announcements about local initiatives to improve outcomes for children and youth to Editor Patrick Boyle at pboyle@youthtoday.org. One-year, Web-only subscriptions to Youth Today are now available at a reduced price of $14.99.
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