CT Model for integrating work, learning and mentoring
Use of entrepreneurship and work to motivate hard-to-reach youth
Leveraging under-utilized community assets
Creating community and extended family support structures for at-risk youth

Social/emotional development
Parent-adolescent relationships
Impact of poverty on youth outcomes
Impact of dropout on youth outcomes

IDEA’s requirements for transition planning
Child welfare requirements for independent living assessment and planning
Juvenile transition
Vocational Rehabilitation’s role in transition
Children’s MH system

Youth policy and youth development research, in general:
21st century skills development
Out-of-school time programs and policies
Youth service and civic engagement
High school education reform
Older youth/transition to adulthood

Employment, education, housing, immigration and independent living services (foster care)

Foster care/child welfare services and policy
Welfare and welfare reform
Transition to adulthood

Youth leadership development
Stress management (stress for success)
Accelerating youth transformation
Diversity leadership
Handling difficult emotions

Workforce development for youth
Adjudicated youth/young people in the criminal justice system
Technical assistance for the youth development field
Managing/operations of youth development programs
Community development

Youth Culture/Hip-Hop Culture
Crime and Violence
Successful Programs
Positive Peer pressure
Workforce Development

Youth Employment
Youth Development
Serving Juvenile Offenders and Reentry
Drop-outs
Best Practices
Workforce development
Out-of-school youth