TOPIC: Transition from Adolescence

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Practice Notes & Information Resources

• About Promoting Youth Development in Schools
• Defining Multiple Pathways for High School Graduation
• Notes on Transition Planning for College
• AboutPressures on Affluent Students Related to University Admission
• Working with Disengaged Students

Center Policy & Analysis Brief

• A Center Policy & Practice Analysis Brief: School Attendance Problems: Are Current Policies & Practices Going in the Right Direction?
• About Policy and Practice Trends for Reducing Truancy
• Supports for Students Deemed At-Risk
• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools
• Youth Gangs and Schools

Guidance Notes

• Dropout Prevention

Guides for Practice

• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School

Introductory Packets

• Dropout Prevention
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Newsletters

• Engaging the Strengths of Families, Youth, and Communities in Rebuilding Learning Supports
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers
• Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• School Dropout Prevention: A Civil Rights and Public Health Imperative

Quick Training Aid

• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Quick Finds

• Alternative Schools and Alternative Education
• Business Support for Schools
• Dropout Prevention
• Foster Care
• Gangs
• Homeless Children and Youth - Education
• Juvenile Justice Systems - Mental Health Needs
• Mentoring
• Prevention for Students "At Risk"
• Teen Pregnancy and Prevention
• Transition Programs/Grade Articulation/Welcome
• Transition to College
• Youth Development

Resource Packets

• Protective Factors (Resiliency)
• Support for Transitions: A Self-study Survey in: Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs

Training Tutorial

• Support for Transitions to Address Barriers to Learning

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet

Transitions From High School to Higher Ed
• The price we pay: Economic and social consequences of inadequate education
• Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD)
• Removing the Roadblocks to College Report

Student Support in Higher Ed

• Building a Culture of Evidence for Community College Student Success
• College Counselors For All
• Promoting Student Success in Community College and Beyond
• Student Mental Health and the Law

Transitions From High School to Career

• Career Academies
• Career Academies: Long Term Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes, Educational, Attainment, and Transitions to Adulthood
• Disconnected Youth: a look at 16 to 24 year olds who are not working or in school (2009) A. Fernandes & Gabe. Congressional Research Service
• Identifying Gaps in Youth Employment Programs’ Capacity to Address Mental Health Needs
• Resume and Employment Guide for People With Disabilities
• Strategic Primer on College Students Mental Health
• Year Up: Empowers low income young adults

General Supports for Transition into Adulthood

• Adolescent Risk Behavior: Differentiating Reasoned And Reactive Risk-taking
• Bridging the Gap Between Adolescence and Adulthood: the Challenges of Emerging Adults
• Changes in Parent, Sibling, and Peer Support During the Transition to Young Adulthood
• Continuity and Change in the Family System Across the Transition from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood
• Fostering youth transitions
• Helping young adults find their purpose
• Transitions to Adulthood (Focal Point, Summer, 2010)
• Work and School Pathways Into the Transition to Adulthood: Adolescent Family, Individual, and Industry Precursors

Special Support for Transition into Adulthood

• The 2021 Youth Transition Report: Outcomes for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities
• Improving post-school outcomes for students with emotional and behavioral disorders
• Making the right turn: a guide about improving transition outcomes for youth involved in the juvenile corrections system
• Transition planning and services
• Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood

Newcomer Students
• Welcoming, Registering, and Supporting Newcomer Students: A Toolkit for Educators of Immigrant and Refugee Students in Secondary Schools

Related Agencies

• The Career Academy Support Network
• Job for America's Graduates
• National Career Academy Coalition
• National Center on Education and the Economy
• National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice
• National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
• National Network on Youth Transition for Behavioral Health

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