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5,037	Building Quality Improvement Systems: Lessons from Three Emerging Efforts in the Youth-Serving Sector	Quality is fast becoming a policy priority in states and localities around the country. As a result, formal and informal networks of youth organizations are seeking and developing strategies to help them assess and improve performance.
4,961	Adding It Up -- Brochure, Rationale and Guide to Mapping Public Resources for Children, Youth & Families	Brochure: Offering the highlights of what a CYF resource map can do, and why a state or community might benefit from one, the brochure can help you make the case and spread the word about your efforts.
4,251	Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary #10: Rethinking the High School Experience: What's After-School Got to Do With it?	With high school reform now a front-burner issue, districts and communities cannot afford to have high school after-school on the back burner.
4,029	Forum Focus: What's Health Got to Do With It?	For youth workers and youth-serving organizations, making a commitment to improve adolescent health outcomes can be as complex as making a commitment to improving academic achievement. Health, like education, has an entire system behind it.
3,946	Ready for College	Much has been written lately that asks the question -- are young people across this country ready for college? The Forum for Youth Investment, Connect for Kids, Voices for America's Children and many state Kids Count organizations have developed this series for state advocates to share the vision, messages and state policies being proposed to improve the college readiness of youth.
3,855	Out-of-School Time Policy Commentary #11: People, Places and Possibilities: Integrating Mentoring and After-School	This commentary explores the relationship between mentoring and after-school, two fields that have garnered significant policy attention and momentum over the past several years. The question is not which makes more sense — mentoring or after-school — but how can we utilize both strategies to increase the likelihood that young people have the supports they need to thrive.
3,852	Youth Ready by 21: A Five-Year Action Agenda for Maryland	In Maryland, there are many agencies, organizations, task forces and coalitions focused on various pieces of the puzzle needed to ensure that all youth are ready for adulthood. While aiming for similar ultimate goals, these groups are often working in parallel and occasionally at cross purposes due to funding streams and grant restrictions.
3,632	Core Principles for Engaging Young People in Community Change	Engaging young people as partners in community change is a compelling idea, but translating that idea into effective practice requires focused attention to a range issues. The principles described in this paper emerged from the commingling of research and practice that occurred when the Forum for Youth Investment merged with Community IMPACT! USA.
3,447	Putting Youth Work on the Map	Over the past year, two comprehensive studies of youth workers were coordinated by the Next Generation Youth Work Coalition. Together, these two studies, conducted by the Forum for Youth Investment and the National Afterschool Association, capture the voices and perspectives of over 5,000 youth workers from across the country.
3,229	2008 Directory of State Children's Cabinets and Councils - June 2008 Update	The 2008 Directory of State Children’s Cabinets and Councils provides at-a-glance responses to basic but important questions: which states have children’s cabinets and councils? Who is involved in them? What do they do? The guide provides summaries of interviews done with children’s cabinet and council directors in the latter half of 2007.