Forum Focus
Forum Focus was a regular insert in Youth Today that was published five times a year. Each issue focused on a different topic in the child and youth field and compiled research updates, stories of work on the ground and interviews with voices from the field.
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Forum Focus: What's Health Got to Do With It? |
For youth workers and youth-serving organizations, making a commitment to improve adolescent health outcomes can be as complex as making a commitment to improving academic achievement. Health, like education, has an entire system behind it. |
05/01/2005 |
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Forum Focus: Revisiting Risk in the 21st Century |
Pick up almost any newspaper these days and you will find a headline sounding an alarm about a serious challenge facing young people today. |
02/01/2005 |
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Forum Focus: What Gets Measured, Gets Done |
States and communities across the country recognize that creating a shared set of desired outcomes for young people provides the opportunity to take stock in how well children and teens are doing on national and local levels. |
11/15/2004 |
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Forum Focus: Education Pipeline |
While the nation’s public systems continue to fall short of delivering equitable educational supports to children and youth, youth workers have spent the last several decades insulating and, in some cases, patching the leaks in the “education pipeline”– a term describing the route students follow from early childhood through post-secondary education. |
09/01/2004 |
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Forum Focus: Countering Structural Racism |
In this issue, we continue to explore how youth activism can be used as a powerful tool for increasing both personal development and collective engagement around the issues of race and racism. |
07/01/2004 |
| Forum Focus: Youth Act: Community Impact |
In July 2002, the Forum merged with Community IMPACT! |
05/14/2004 | |
| Forum Focus: High School: The Next Frontier for After-School Advocates? |
As the issue of older youth and out-of-school time is gaining new attention across the country in the context of the after-school movement, it is important to remember that there are many programs for teens that operate in the out-of-school hours. |
02/15/2004 | |
| Forum Focus: A Portfolio Approach to Youth Policy |
In this issue of Forum Focus, we focus on what researchers and policy makers are doing to help governments take stock of their efforts to make sure that every young person is “Ready by 21” – ready for work, ready for college, ready for life. |
11/14/2003 | |
| Forum Focus: Community Partnerships for Learning: Blurring the Lines |
In this issue, we explore how community partnerships to support formal learning and development matter and how they can be created and sustained. |
09/15/2003 | |
| Forum Focus: Quality Counts |
In this first issue of Forum Focus, we summarize emerging research and practical evidence that quality matters and push forward to ask the questions: Is quality measurable? Is it malleable? We bring a youth-centered lens to our review, looking for examples that define quality from the perspective of what young people need to heal, grow and contribute. |
08/01/2003 |