 Disconnected Youth Publications and Resources
- Action Kit on Reengaging Disconnected Youth - This action kit for municipal leaders highlights steps that city officials can take to help young people who are not connected to school, work, or caring adults.
- Beyond City Limits: Cross-System Collaboration to Reengage Disconnected Youth highlights eight cities - Albany, N.Y., Baltimore, Boston, Corpus Christi, Texas, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose - in which municipal leaders are collaborating across public systems on behalf of disconnected youth.
- Connecting Vulnerable Youth: A Municipal Leaders
Guide - In cooperation with the Academy for Educational Development's Center for Youth Development and Policy Research, the YEF Institute produced this publication to provide an in-depth look into the roles municipal leaders play in the lives of disconnected youth and to give an overview of effective approaches and promising strategies. It poses seven questions that municipal officials can ask in their communities to jumpstart local initiatives.
- The Alternative Pathways Project: A Framework for Dropout Reduction and Recovery - This project, launched in early 2005, builds upon investments in the Alternative High School Initiative to expand the range of model schools for vulnerable youth, and outlines critical elements for school districts developing educational pathways for struggling students and those who have dropped out of school. The Framework highlights policies and practices that push children out of school, suggests strategies for overcoming barriers to re-enrollment, and gives direction for expanding effective educational alternatives.
- Summer Job Outlook 2003 - This study, based on an analysis of teen employment rates through April 2003, suggests that the loss of federal funds for summer jobs programs poses serious problems for the nation's cities and towns.
- Leaving Young Workers Behind -This report provides conclusions from research on youth employment in the U.S. labor force conducted by Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies.
- Connected by 25: Improving The Life Chances of the Country's Most Vulnerable 14-24 Year Olds. Michael Wald and Tia Martinez; Stanford University; Nov. 2003. This paper identifies four groups of youth who are at the highest risk of long-term unemployment, incarceration, and social disconnection. It discusses a number of policy directions for helping these youth make successful transitions into adulthood.
- Research Report: Trends in Black Male Joblessness and Year-Round Idleness: An Employment Crisis Ignored- a recent study by the Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies which indicates the current trend of a declining employment rate for U.S. teens.
- Whatever It Takes: How Twelve Communities Are Reconnecting Out-of-School Youth - This report documents what committed educators, policymakers, and community leaders across the country are doing to reconnect out-of-school youth to the social and economic mainstream. It provides background on the high school dropout problem and describes in-depth what twelve communities are doing to reconnect dropouts to education and employment training. It also includes descriptions of major national program models serving out-of-school youth.
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