Youth Policy Advocacy
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| Arizona: Five Keys to Youth Success -- Unlocking the Door to Arizona's Future |  | September 11, 2007 | |
| Youth Today: Children's Rights, Children's Advocates, Children's Cabinets | By Karen Pittman, May 2007 In late March, the Rhode Island Foster Parents Association (RIFPA) staged call-ins to the legislature to oppose the budget cuts to youth in the child welfare system. Par for the course? Not quite. | May 1, 2007 | |
| Conference Call: Communications for Youth Advocates (2/14/07) | The Forum for Youth Investment, along with Voices for America's Children and Kids Count, hosted a conference call for youth advocates on communications and messaging on February 14th. The call featured Kristen Grimm, president of Spitfire Strategies, and Ann Lochner, director of the Applied Research Collaborative on Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. | February 15, 2007 | |
| Conference Call: What's Next for Child and Youth Advocacy? | On December 14, 2006, The Forum for Youth Investment, along with Voices for America's Children, Kids Count, and the National Conference of State Legislatures, hosted conference call for state child and youth advocates to discuss what the changing political landscape means for child and youth advocacy. | December 15, 2006 | |
| Audioconference: Moving Youth Policy Forward -- Lesson Learned (4/10/2006) | Policy makers across the country have stepped up their efforts to address key challenges facing our young people. | April 10, 2006 | |
| Adio Conference: Out-of-School Time: High School After-School and School Reform (9/21/2005) | On September 21, the Forum brought together several national experts to address key questions around the connections between the high school reform and after-school movements. | September 15, 2005 | |
| Youth Today: Getting Organized, Getting Heard, Getting Results | By Karen Pittman, May 2005 Polling consistently shows that the public is prepared to invest in its young people. But Congress consistently cuts the budgets of youth programs, while special interests such as makers of ceiling fans, archery equipment, sonar fish finders and tackle boxes receive bigger tax cuts. I consider this a failure of democracy. | June 1, 2005 |
