Youth ready to enter the work force and become productive citizens

Adolescence

Youth and Work

Citizenship

YouthInfo

A web site developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide the latest information about America's adolescents. Includes a statistical profile of America's teenagers; the latest reports and publications about adolescents; information for parents of teens; speeches by federal officials on youth topics; links to youth-related web sites at HHS, other federal agencies, private foundations and research organizations; and information about awards YouthInfo has received.

Adolescence Directory On-Line

(ADOL) is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. It is a service of the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find Web resources on a wide variety of topics.

Youth Development

A page of resources related to youth development, including publications on preparing youth for productive citizenship

Carnegie Foundation

Commissions and publishes a number of reports on youth development, including "Great Transitions: Preparing Adolescents for a New Century" (Executive summary and an abridged version available online.)

Search Institute

An independent, nonprofit organization committed not only to contributing to the knowledge base about youth development, and to translating high-quality research on children and youth into practical ideas, tools, services, and resources for families, neighborhoods, schools, organizations, and communities.

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Missouri Department of Economic Development

• Division of Job Development and Training

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

• Division of Vocational and Adult Education

Education and the Economy: An Indicators Report, a publication of the U.S. Education Department

Cornell Youth and Work Program
Fosters the transition of youth to adulthood through research and development on school-to-work opportunities and by focusing on the quality of work-based learning.

The Promising and Effective Practices Network
(PEPNet) youth employment & training to provide information about effective initiatives and practices to (1) help organizations in the field improve by benchmarking and learning from each other and (2) dispel the myth that "nothing works" in youth employment/development programming.

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National Service-Learning Cooperative Clearinghouse

Helps educators and community agencies develop and expand service-learning opportunities for youth. (an ERIC Adjunct Clearinghouse)

This site contains an annotated Presidents' Summit Bibliography of publications addressing http://www.nicsl.coled.umn.edu/res/bibs/summ.htm

Civic Education

National Center for Civic Education

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