Skip to main content

Audience: Elders

Youth Power: a Guide to Community Organizing

This youth community organizing guide describes how to work with youth to build the skills needed to make change in their community through a youth development framework. It includes 15 lessons as well as suggested forms, activities, and resources.

Core Principles for Engaging Young People in Community Change

This paper describes the process of engaging youth in community work and building capacity of organizations and communities to ensure young people understand the responsibility and resources to create positive change in their community.

Native American Youth 101

This review developed by the Center for Native American Youth provides information on the historical context and current status of Indian Country and Native American Youth and youth priorities to consider.

Truancy Prevention Efforts in School-Community Partnerships

This brief by Safe Schools Healthy Students discusses definitions and extent of truancy, risk factors, past approaches, effective approaches, examples of innovative approaches, economic consequences of truancy, and examples of truancy reduction approaches from Safe Schools/Healthy Students sites.

Rural Dropout Prevention Issues & Solutions

This guide provides a wealth of information on designing and implementing a successful dropout prevention initiative in a rural school environment. In addition to the research noted in the publication, it offers suggestions and ideas drawn from practitioner-based experiences found in rural schools across America.

Graduation for All

This presentation composed by the Bureau of Indian Education discusses the school drop out risk factors and predictors affecting Native youth, drop out prevention, prevention programs, and strategies.

Tribal Attendance Pilot Project

This report highlights the goals, data, barriers and outcomes of the Tribal Attendance Pilot Project (TAPP), a project developed by representatives from the nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon to reduce absenteeism of American Indian and Alaska Native students in nine schools.