Opportunity Says It All: How Five Communities Are Supporting the Transformation...

This report:

• “Describes how select stakeholders in five communities (community/systems leaders, youth development/case management staff, and young black men) articulate and define success for disconnected and off-track young black men;
• Discusses how communities have designed interventions and supportive policies for disconnected and off-track youth;
• Lays out successful approaches and interventions that attract young men into programs and offers examples that address the needs of young black men; and
• Highlights the barriers to employment faced by young black men and the strategies utilized by workforce systems and programs to get them employed.” (p. 2). (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)

Full publication title: Opportunity Says It All: How Five Communities Are Supporting the Transformation, Education, and Employment Success of Young Black Men

The report describes several elements for successful development of youth programs that engage young black men: • “Multiple education options for high school dropouts and other vulnerable youth populations (such as offenders, foster care youth, and overage and under-credited students) that help gain secondary and postsecondary credentials” (p.5). • “Policies and practices to address the overrepresentation of African American males in the juvenile justice system” (p.6). • “Integrated mental and behavioral health approaches designed to tackle the impact of trauma” (p.7). • “Targeting funding to out-of-school populations” (p.7). (Abstractor: Author and Website Staff)

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• Resource Publication Date: 2013
• Author(s): Bird, Kisha
• Organizational Author(s): CLASP
• Funding Source: Open Society Foundation
• Resource Availability: Publicly available
• Posted by: Laura Aron
• Posted in: Workforce System Strategies