Reengaging Disconnected Youth: Municipal Leadership and Public System Collaboration
Live, online professional development opportunity - a preview of the forthcoming National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education, and Families research findings
Presented on Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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Leon T. Andrews, Youth Development Program Director, National League of Cities, Institute for Youth, Education, and Families
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| Andrew O. Moore, Senior Consultant, Disconnected Youth and High School Reform, National League of Cities, Institute for Youth, Education, and Families |  |
On Wednesday, October 25, 2006, the Center for Schools and Communities and the National League of Cities offered a live, online presentation on ways municipal leaders and public care systems are working to reengage older youth (16-24) who lack strong connections to school, work and the broader community. The session previewed forthcoming research findings that will soon be released in a National League of Cities' Institute for Youth, Education, and Families publication. The publication is built around case study research of eight U.S. cities, including Philadelphia.
Leon T. Andrews, Youth Development Program Director and Andrew O. Moore, Senior Consultant for Disconnected Youth and High School Reform were the featured presenters.
The research findings describe how municipal leaders in select cities across the United States are working across systems to implement and strengthen policy and program efforts that are reconnecting with disenfranchised youth to produce promising results.
The two-year case study project received support from the William and Flora J. Hewlett and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations. This phase of the YEF Institute’s disconnected youth work has focused on researching cross-systems efforts in a number of cities and sharing this and other relevant information with the members of the Municipal Network on Disconnected Youth and broader audiences.
As a key step toward knowledge development, the Youth, Education, and Families (YEF) Institute developed in-depth case studies focusing on the cross-systems disconnected youth efforts of the cities of Albany, New York.; Boston, Massachusetts.; and San Diego, California. To gather information, staff and consultants made site visits to these cities, conducted interviews with city officials and partners, and visited local programs. YEF has also produced briefer case studies of promising efforts in five other cities (Baltimore, Maryland.; Corpus Christi, Texas.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.; San Francisco, California; and San Jose, California). These eight cities were selected through a research process that included telephone interviews with city staff in thirty cities.
Recorded Session
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The Presentation Powerpoint (PDF format)
PowerPoint Presentation - delivered Wednesday, October 25 (PDF format)
Resources Associated With The Presentation
Action Kit for Municipal Leaders: Reengaging Disconnected Youth
A National League of Cities publication (PDF format)
Notes from Engaging City Governments in Supporting Foster Youth Transition Issues
Content Conference Call
Jointly sponsored by New Ways to Work and NLC-IYEF, July 27, 2006
American Youth Policy Forum Dropout Recovery Discussion Group
Dropout Recovery as a Local Economic Development Strategy / Webcast
Center for Law & Social Policy - Disconnected Youth
National Youth Employment Coalition
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children - State of Youth Unemployment
San Jose Alternative Education Collaborative
US Department of Labor, Employment & Training Administration - Alternative Education
Youth Transition Funders Group
About The Presenters
LEON T. ANDREWS joined the Institute for Youth, Education, and Families at the National League of Cities as their program director for youth development in March 2006. Leon has an extensive background working in government, the community, the private sector, and academia for the last 14 years.
Leon Andrews has worked for the United States Department of Justice as a case analyst and as a legislative assistant for United States Senator Barbara A. Mikulski.
Leon served as a project director for the Allegheny County Department of Human Services where he managed a planning project for the 16 to 25 year old youth population in transition.
Leon Andrews has worked with several community organizations in the Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Washington DC areas, including, but not limited to, YouthBuild Pittsburgh, Young Detroit Builders, and the Development Corporation of Columbia Heights in Washington DC. He also served as a field manager for the United States Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG)
Leon Andrews worked as a political consultant for senatorial, congressional, and presidential candidates and as a marketing research consultant for IBM, formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he provided policy and analytical expertise for the Internal Revenue Service and the Health Care Financing Administration.
Leon Andrews served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University for three years.
As a urban planning PhD student at The University of Michigan, Leon studied positive youth development in the United States. His dissertation is a process evaluation study of how state and local municipalities create and implement a youth master plan. While living in Michigan, Leon was a research associate at The University of Michigan for two projects. The first was a nationally funded project by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation that analyzed youth participation in local government. The second was a locally funded project by The Skillman Foundation that evaluated a faith-based initiative on after-school programs in the city of Detroit.
He is an author of two publications that examine black males in the United States. The first article, "Black Males and the U.S. Economy," was published in May 2000 for The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The second article, "The Precarious Poverty Situation of Black Men," was published in an edited volume, “Black Males in White America” in 2002.
Prior to joining the National League of Cities, Leon Andrews completed a 6-month fellowship with The Forum for Youth Investment. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Howard University, a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and is scheduled to defend his dissertation this fall in Urban and Regional Planning at The University of Michigan.
ANDREW OWENS MOORE is a Senior Consultant to the National League of Cities’ Institute (NLC) for Youth, Education and Families. Currently, he leads NLC’s efforts to establish the Municipal Network on Disconnected Youth as an information hub and source of assistance for cities seeking to reengage older youth who have become disconnected from school, work, and the community. On NLC’s Municipal Leadership for Expanding High School Options and Alternatives project, he is coordinating technical assistance to five cities and helping develop and support joint policy strategies among the network of intermediaries that comprise the Alternative High School Initiative. Earlier, Moore spent 15 years building the nationwide network of service and conservation corps and one year as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy in the United Kingdom. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University.
