Strategies to engage youth transitioning to adulthood is crucial to addressing needs such as education, employment, and mentoring. This report from the National League of Cities describes cross-system initiatives from eight cities across the…

This study tests family homelessness based on patterns of public shelter use and examines whether family characteristics are associated with homelessness. It was found that 20% of homeless families are in shelters for longer periods, and some…

More than 650,000 prisoners are released annually in the United States. The Urban Institute conducted this four-year study to understand challenges of prisoner reentry in Cleveland, Ohio. This brief provides the results from interviews with 300…

The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania provides resources to mentoring programs and supports mentoring programs by presenting best practices and delivering training and technical assistance to staff of local programs.

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Engaging employers is key in supporting youth transition in the workforce and foster job retention and advancement. This paper, from the Center for Children at the University of Chicago, provides the findings from interviews with youth program…

Research from the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan provides information on the low-wage workforce in the United States. Due to recent immigration, the typical low-wage worker is now most likely to be a Hispanic immigrant.…

From the Chapin Hall Center for Children, this report provides information from a Midwest study of youth as they made the transition from foster care into adulthood. The study tracks the youth on a variety of measures, such as living arrangements…

Due in large part to welfare reform, employment rates have increased among single mothers. From the Urban Institute, this article examines these trends in relation to increasing income among this population due to employment and the Earned Income…

This paper, from the Institute for Research on Poverty, outlines labor market patterns among young adults and the transition to adulthood. By comparing cohorts from 1979 and 1997, youth in the later cohort tend to live at home or cohabit with…

Ready4Work is a demonstration project through the Department of Labor, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Ford Foundation to provide services to ex-prisoners. The program is designed to meet the needs of this population, as well as…