Connect for Kids / Child Advocacy 360 / Youth Policy Action Center - Improving Communities

Boosting Your Recruitment and Enrollment, Lessons from a New York Beacon Center

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:51:17 -0600

Engaging young teens in quality out-of-school time programs is no easy feat. Cypress Hills-East New York, a Beacon Center located in Brooklyn, has developed a strategy for recruiting and enrolling youth ages 9 to 14 for its school-year program. What works best? The Youth Development Institute shares some of the secrets of success.

Boosting Your Recruitment and Enrollment, Lessons from a New York Beacon Center

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:01:12 -0600

Creating Lasting Solutions for Success in Louisville

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:44:26 -0500

Louisville, Kentucky, has made great progress in bringing together agencies, organizations and programs to coordinate services for children and youth -- there's even innovative data sharing. The Forum for Youth Investment convened stakeholders to ask: how can a community come together to provide all children and youth a chance to succeed? Read

Action Kit to Help Cities Create Youth Master Plans

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:42:27 -0500

The National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education and Families has a new action kit to help municipal leaders create a master plan that brings together the schools, agencies and organizati

Intentional Innovation: How Getting More Systematic about Innovation Could Improve

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:38:36 -0500

This new report from the Kellogg Foundation, the Monitor Institute and Clohesy Consulting examines innovation theory and practiceand how innovation in the social sector could become a more consistent and reliable commodity for social good.

Toward a Brighter Future: NCY Announces National Children and Youth Policy Agenda

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:01:39 -0500

September 15— The National Collaboration for Youth (NCY), a 40 year old coalition of youth-serving nonprofits, has proposed a national policy agenda, “Toward a Brighter Future: An Essential Agenda for America’s Young People.”

COMING SOON! Toward a Brighter Future: An Essential Agenda for America’s Young People

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:57:46 -0500

While most would agree that “children are our greatest asset,” the federal government’s investment in children and youth continues to decline. The National Collaboration for Youth offers an agenda and policy recommendations to help states and our nation meet the needs of America’s children and youth in 2009 and beyond.

Step Up for Kids Day 2008

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:29:12 -0500

The Every Child Matters Education Fund and its local, state and national partners are hosting a nonpartisan event on the capitol steps in Washington, DC, and all 50 states to draw public attention to issues affecting America's children—poverty, health care, juvenile incarceration, early care and education, child abuse, and after-school programs.

Rural Health Outreach Services Grant Program

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:57:00 -0500

The Health Resources and Services Administration has a new funding opportunity. Up to
$375,000 will be awarded for demonstration projects to improve health care access in
rural areas. RFP deadline: October 16. For more program information, click here.

2009 Healthy Vision Community Awards

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:55:10 -0500

This program awards up to $10,000 for collaborative initiatives that support the vision
objectives in Healthy People 2010, which address examinations and prevention, eye
diseases, injury and safety and vision rehabilitation.

Multigenerational & Civic Engagement Projects Funding

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:53:38 -0500

This National Council on Aging program is offering funds to help multigenerational and
civic engagement projects document effective local approaches and impact. Deadline for
concept paper: August 1, 2008.

Connecting Families, Schools and Community Resources

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:50:58 -0500

Schools can be more than vibrant places for learning, they can also be year-round hubs
that connect families and communities to resources and services. This brief from the
National Human Services Assembly looks at schools that doing just that and outlines

Ready by 21 Big Picture Messages & Frameworks Webinar

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:21:02 -0500

How can we improve the odds for young people? This Forum for Youth Investment Ready by
21 webinar examined the major child and youth development frameworks and offered
real-world experiences of how a coordinating a framework can improve youth programs and

Youth Work Counts Toolkit

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:19:00 -0500

This toolkit from Next Gen toolkit is designed to help organizations collect and use
local survey and focus group data about frontline youth workers to make the case for
investing in workforce development. The tools include a guide, survey and focus group

KIDS COUNT 2008: A CFK Overview

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:47:35 -0500

To make positive change for kids, you need to know where things stand, what’s working and what needs to be improved. The annual KIDS COUNT Data Book offers both data and context for 10 indicators of child well-being—and drills down to a state and local level. This year’s essay offers a “roadmap for reform” in juvenile justice. CFK summer intern Maria Allen attended the June 2008 launch event in DC and has this overview.