Forum for Youth Investment helps leaders change the odds for kids by finding scalable solutions to pressing problems that drive opportunity gaps, and by helping public and private leaders align the myriad of programs and policies created to improve youth opportunities and outcomes.
National Dropout Prevention Center has identified 15 Effective Strategies that have the most positive impact on reducing school dropout.
Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is a resource for healthy youth development programs.
The Results First Clearinghouse Database is an online resource that brings together information on the effectiveness of social policy programs from nine national clearinghouses. It applies color-coding to the clearinghouses’ distinct rating systems, creating a common language that enables users to quickly see where each program falls on a spectrum from negative impact to positive impact. As such, this database can help users easily access and understand the evidence base for a variety of programs.
US Department of Health and Human Services; Office of the Administration for Children and Families; Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse, 2009-2021 is a virtual portal of research on low-income families and vulnerable populations which builds and disseminates knowledge about effective approaches to helping low-income children and families.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a professional membership organization that works to promote high-quality early learning for all young children, birth through age 8, by connecting early childhood practice, policy, and research.
Neighborhoods and Youth Development tests place-based, two-generation strategies to help vulnerable parents and children.
Kids in Context cuts across disciplines to understand families, communities, and the public systems that influence kids’ well-being and success.
The National Mentoring Resource Center is a comprehensive and reliable resource for mentoring tools, program and training materials, as well as access to no-cost training and technical assistance for youth mentoring practitioners looking for support in more deeply incorporating evidence-based practices to support positive youth outcomes.
The National Home Visiting Resource Center (NHVRC) created the Home Visiting Yearbook to present the most comprehensive picture available of home visiting on the national and state levels. The data includes information from 15 evidence-based home visiting models, 9 emerging models, 2019 information on how many families and children could benefit from home visiting, and state data tables on the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV).
