Join YTFG’s Safe Passage Conference Calls
The Youth Transition Funders Group is hosting two conference calls this fall to share how funders and communities are working together to help all of America s youth connect by age 25. Panelists will discuss pathways to college and careers, reform and alternatives to incarceration, and programs that help youth become financially independent after foster care .

The calls will also feature the new release of YTFG's publication Safe Passage and the Call to Action that offers policy checklists for states and communities.

The September 27, 2 pm ET, conference call – for advocates, policy experts and practitioners -- will feature reports from the field and from funders.

Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children’s President Joan Benso will report on Pennsylvania’s new task force on re-connecting youth and Laura Shubilla, President of the Philadelphia Youth Network, will report on Philadelphia’s out-of-school initiative. Constancia Warren will talk about the Carnegie Corporation’s dropout recovery initiative and the Connected by 25 project of YTFG's Out-of-School/Struggling Students Work Group. Julie Peterson will talk about key tenets for juvenile justice reform developed by the Juvenile Justice Work Group of YTFG.

Sign up by emailing janisrichter@msn.com.

The October 4, 2 pm ET, conference call – for state and local leaders—will feature new approaches to improving policies for youth at risk.

Howard Davidson, Director of the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, will explain the ABA’s latest initiative for law, policy and practice reform related to youth at risk, highlighting policy recommendations.

Mala Thakur, Executive Director of the National Youth Employment Coalition, will discuss findings from NYEC’s recent examination of financing of alternative education pathways for struggling students and out of school youth. Examples include flexible funding that “follows the student,” schools and programs that tap into a variety of funding sources, and policy mechanisms that support the ability of schools/programs to tap into state and local education funding streams.

RSVP to janisrichter@msn.com.