| Author(s): | Steinberg, A., and Almeida, C. |
| Title: | Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model |
| Source: | http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/Pathway_... |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Organization: | Jobs for the Future |
| Short Description: | National youth-serving networks, low-income school districts, and community colleges are all on the front lines of helping disconnected youth gain the education and skills they need to contribute to a productive workforce and to rebuild our communities. This paper highlights one such effort to create Back on Track pathways, the Postsecondary Success Initiative, launched in 2008. |
| Annotation: | Across the country, social entrepreneurs are refusing to give up on those who are most often written off: young people who leave high school without a diploma. At the same time, these innovators are demonstrating how dropout recovery can be part of national recovery as the country struggles to escape from recession. National youth-serving networks, low-income school districts, and community colleges are all on the front lines of helping disconnected youth gain the education and skills they need to contribute to a productive workforce and to rebuild our communities.
This paper highlights one such effort to create Back on Track pathways, the Postsecondary Success Initiative, launched in 2008 as a collaboration of JFF, YouthBuild USA, the National Youth Employment Coalition, and, as of 2011, the Corps Network with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.
Working with JFF, the national networks are helping local affiliated programs (both diploma-granting and GED) collaborate with postsecondary partners to:
•Enrich their academic offerings;
•Create bridges to postsecondary education; and
•Build first-year supports to ensure that young people get the academic momentum they need to attain a postsecondary credential.
The entrepreneurial energy unleashed by the strategic, cross-sectoral partnerships being forged to offer Back on Track pathways suggests an innovative and potentially cost-effective solution to the challenges of helping low-income young people attain a meaningful credential and participate in economic recovery.
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