• “Hope” Grows: an Intergenerational Community, 14 Years On

    Fourteen years ago, two researchers turned an abandoned air force base into a vibrant intergenerational community to strengthen foster families and turn seniors into active givers of supports. Now, as sites across the country replicate this approach, Hope Meadows is adapting to the new challenges that come with long-term success.
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  • Youth Advocacy Center teaches teens how to shoot for the stars

    We have written before about the work of New York's Youth Advocacy Center and were once again impressed with this one-to-one learning experience...
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  • The 4 M's of Quality: Quality Matters, is Measurable, Moveable and Malleable

    The 4M framework, developed by The Forum for Youth Investment, puts forth in a few concise paragraphs that "quality matters, quality is measurable, quality is moveable, and quality is malleable."
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“Kid-Powered”: Turning a County-Owned Farm into an Earth School

Earth School December 3—Concerned that young people were increasingly disconnected from the real (read: natural) world, actress and teacher Barbara Sarbin turned a county farm into a hands-on Earth School. Here’s a look at how she did it.
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Who's Doing What That Works

The Tow Foundation On The Scene: Keeping Communication Front and Forward for Grantee Success

While The Tow Foundation, based in Connecticut, provides grants that revolve around issues like juvenile justice, child advocacy, life skills and more, the foundation's executives see communication as a linchpin - no matter the initiative.
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Adoption and Foster Care

Spark Action and CA 360 Content Partnership Update –July 2010

At Child Advocacy 360 we feel privileged to be working closely with Spark Action (www.sparkaction.org)-formerly Connect for Kids- and its parent organization, The Forum for Youth Investment.

Spark Action offers compelling articles that spotlight effective community actionand impact, trends and developments.

Don’t miss the Improve Communications section which highlights CA 360 content—www.sparkaction.org/act/communicate

— Hershel Sarbin, editor and publisher

Breakthrough Messaging Research in Child Advocacy Communication!

The full results of Child Advocacy 360 Foundation’s 2010 national research on “Solutions Storytelling: Messaging to Mobilize Support for Children's Issues,” conducted by Douglas Gould & Company and The Topos Partnership, are now available.

A brief Executive Summary , as well as a short Editor's Note on strategic messaging, are a click away.

To secure access to the full 42-page PDF Report on the Research Findings, click here.

We welcome your interest and look forward to your feedback. Just email Hershel Sarbin, Publisher, at Hershel@gmail.com.

100 Best Communities For Young People

Child Advocacy 360 is introducing a “Who’s Doing What That Works” series in which we track programs in communities that have earned recognition from America’s Promise Alliance as being among 100 Best Communities For Young People. The focus will be on the positive results and creative messaging strategies that keep these communities engaged.

The 100 Best Communities for Young People awards, an America’s Promise Alliance program presented by ING, recognizes and celebrates extraordinary community-wide efforts to improve the well-being of youth and end the nation’s dropout crisis. More than 350 communities registered for this year’s competition, representing large cities and suburbs, counties and rural towns in all 50 states. Winning efforts are as varied as local needs, imaginations and willingness to work together. Any community committed to its young – and acting on that commitment – is encouraged to apply.

The 2010 100 Best Communities for Young People will be announced on September 21 at a national event in Washington, D.C.

Here is the first of Child Advocacy 360’s series spotlighting winners of America Promise 100 Best Communities. It features a community in Florida that has earned the 100 Best Communities designation three years running – and hoping for a fourth.

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