Publications

Forum Focus
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.

May 1, 2005
Forum Focus: Revisiting Risk in the 21st Century

Pick up almost any newspaper these days and you will find a headline sounding an alarm about a serious challenge facing young people today.

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February 1, 2005
Forum Focus: What Gets Measured, Gets Done

States and communities across the country recognize that creating a shared set of desired outcomes for young people provides the opportunity to take stock in how well children and teens are doing on national and local levels.

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November 15, 2004
Forum Focus: Education Pipeline

While the nation’s public systems continue to fall short of delivering equitable educational supports to children and youth, youth workers have spent the last several decades insulating and, in some cases, patching the leaks in the “education pipeline”– a term describing the route students follow from early childhood through post-secondary education.

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September 1, 2004
Forum Focus: Countering Structural Racism

In this issue, we continue to explore how youth activism can be used as a powerful tool for increasing both personal development and collective engagement around the issues of race and racism.

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July 1, 2004