This Child Trends report examines the impact of extended foster care on older youth (over 18 years old) as they transition to adulthood. The report analyzes the relationship between extended foster care and attainment of young adult outcomes in…

This Chapin Hall issue brief reviews: child welfare workers’ perceptions of county-level availability of training and the range of services available for transition-age foster youth; workers’ views about the collaboration between child welfare…

This Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice guide, with funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, was developed to assist juvenile justice and social service professionals who support re-entering youth after their confinement or court-ordered out…

This Jobs for the Future report profiles the Opportunity Works program, a national effort to create postsecondary education and career pathways for over 2,000 out-of-school and out-of-work youth. The research in this report identifies four…

This Aspen Institute report describes The Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF), an initiative of the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions. Collaborative approaches funded under this program represent multiple stakeholders working together to…

This Jobs for the Future issue brief includes data and infographics that outline Federal programs designed to serve opportunity youth in poverty by bridging improved educational and economic outcomes, including TANF, the Supplemental Nutrition…

This Annie E. Casey Foundation-supported study, authored by Brookings and Child Trends, identifies three factors that contribute to future economic progress among low-income youth: a post-secondary education (potentially equalizes young adults…

The U.S. Department of Labor convened a webinar on December 5, 2018 that outlined how to leverage free and open educational resources to design and implement training and workforce development programs targeted toward youth. These materials are…

This toolkit from the National Mentoring Partnership offers some tips and resources on how best to celebrate National Mentoring Partnership in January 2019.

This MDRC policy brief identifies the positive earnings and employment outcomes of three programs designed to support upward mobility in youth: YouthBuild, Year Up, and New York City’s Young Adult Internship Program. In particular, a key finding…