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THE READY BY 21 CHALLENGE:

THE READY BY 21 CHALLENGE:. Ensuring that Every Young Person is Ready for College, Work & Life. Thaddeus Ferber The Forum for Youth Investment. All Youth are Ready for College, Work and Life. Every Family and Community are Supportive.

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THE READY BY 21 CHALLENGE:

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  1. THE READY BY 21 CHALLENGE: Ensuring that Every Young Person is Ready for College, Work & Life Thaddeus Ferber The Forum for Youth Investment

  2. AllYouth are Ready for College, Work and Life. EveryFamily and Community are Supportive. EachLeader is Working in Collaboratively and Effectively. The AmericanDREAM

  3. The AmericanREALITY Too FewYouth are Ready.Only 4 in 10 are doing well. (source: Gambone, Connell & Klem, 2002) Too FewFamilies and Communities are Supportive. Fewer than 2 in 5 youth have the supports that they need. (source: America’s Promise Alliance National Promises Survey) Too FewLeaders are Aligned.

  4. We Know What it Takes to Support Development… • The National Research Council reports that teens need: • Physical and Psychological Safety • Appropriate Structure • Supportive Relationships • Opportunities to Belong • Positive Social Norms • Support for Efficacy and Mattering • Opportunities for Skill-Building • Integration of Family, School and Community efforts

  5. …but it takes a coordinated effort “Communities should provide an ample array of program opportunities… through local entities that can coordinate such work across the entire community. Communities should put in place some locally appropriate mechanism for monitoring the availability, accessibility and quality of programs…” - Community Programs to Promote Youth Development, 2002

  6. Child & Family Services Mental Health & Probation Education Health & Food Social Services • Public Schools • ESEA, Title I • School Lunch & Breakfast • Head Start • IDEA • After-School Programs • Textbook Funding • Tests & Achievement • Teacher Issues • GED • Medi-Cal – EPSDT • Healthy Families Parent Expansion • Child Health & Disability Program • Expanded Access Primary Care • Trauma Case Funding • Co-payments for ER Services • Child Lead Poisoning Prevention Program • HIV/AIDS Prevention & Education • Breast Cancer Screening • Food Stamps • WIC • TANF • GAIN, CAL Learn, Cal WORKS, etc. • Child Care – CCDBG, SSBG, Cal WORKS Child Care, etc. • After-School Programs – 21st Century Learning Centers, etc. • Promoting Safe & Stable Families • Child Abuse & Neglect Programs • Foster Care – Transition, Independent Living, Housing, etc. • Adoption Assistance, Adoption Opportunities • School-Based MH Services for Medi-Cal Kids • Probation Officers in Schools • Cardenas-Schiff Legislation • Health Care Through Probation • Mental Health Evaluations • Juvenile Halls Boyfriend in trouble 9 year old 5 year old Baby 1 1/2 Mom’s sister Dad Mom Leadership Initiatives are Fragmented Children’s Services in LA County SOURCE:Margaret Dunkle

  7. Business as Usual the more we focus (on narrow pieces) the more we fragment (the responses) the more we fail (our children & youth) Disconnected change efforts within a community or network may actually dissipate the energy for change.

  8. Ready by 21 helps leaders bring precision to their passion where there is motivation or a mandate to: Take Aim Take Stock Take Action Bringing Precision to Passion

  9. Working Together Local Foundation President Legislator Governor States & Localities Advocate Intermediary Director School Administrator Business Executive Mayor/ County Exec.

  10. Take Aim on the Big PictureHow are Young People Doing?

  11. Take Stock of the Big Picture

  12. Traditional Approach: Pick One Area

  13. But What Happened to the Rest of the Picture? Children Enter School Ready to Learn

  14. Alternative:Learning to Focus Differently Shifting Red to Yellow, Yellow to Green

  15. Ready by 21 National Partnership • Formal commitment in 2007; represent education, government, nonprofit, business and community philanthropy sectors. • Combined, they have the capacity to inform, support and champion state and local leaders whose commitments are critical to any major change effort: • United Way of America (signature partner) • American Association of School Administrators • America’s Promise Alliance • Corporate Voices for Working Families • National Collaboration for Youth • National Conference of State Legislatures • Search Institute • Center for Youth Program Quality

  16. The Ready By 21 Challenge: Changing the Odds for YouthBy Changing the Way We Do Business

  17. For More Information… • thaddeus@forumfyi.org • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thaddeus_Ferber/215877 • www.forumfyi.org • www.youthpolicyactioncenter.org • www.connectforkids.org

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