Resources
The Promise Neighborhoods Training and Technical Assistance team, the U.S. Department of Education, Promise Neighborhoods grantees, and key technical assistance partners have produced written guidance, tools, and videos about how to launch and manage a successful cradle-to-career pipeline of solutions and strategies for early learners, students, and families in economically distressed communities. Resources appear in the order they were added with the most recent additions first.
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Understanding Federal Tools for Building Youth and Family Financial Capability
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2016
On March 29, 2016, the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink hosted a webinar to discuss strategies to use federal tools to build youth and family financial capability in Promise Neighborhoods. Anamita Gall (ICF International) and Dr. Deborah Moore (Indianola Promise Community) shared best practices for using federal tools, such as the Assets for Independence Initiative, to break the cycle of generational poverty, ensure students live in stable communities, and integrate financial capability services into Promise Neighborhoods strategies to improve outcomes for all underserved children and their families.
Family Supports Financial Security Post-Secondary Success Program Delivery/Partners
Sustaining Parent Engagement throughout the Cradle to Career Continuum (GPRAs 12-14)
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2016
Parent and community engagement is critical to achieving and sustaining Promise Neighborhoods results. Research demonstrates children whose parents are involved in their reading and learning are more likely to have stronger academic performances and fewer absences.
Family Supports Parent and Community Engagement Post-Secondary Success Program Delivery/Partners
Addressing the Impact of Trauma on Academic Performance and School Attendance
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2016
Exposure to a traumatic event places a young person at risk of a lower reading proficiency, a lower grade -point average, and more days of school absences. Throughout their lifetimes, many young students living in underserved communities will experience one or more traumatic events, putting them at risk of chronic absenteeism and lower academic proficiency.
Family Supports Health and Wellbeing K-12 Academic Performance Program Delivery/Partners
Using Data to Make a Difference for Boston-Area Students At Risk of Homelessness
Author: Mary Bogle, Katya Abazajian | Year of Publication: 2016
This Urban Wire blog post details how a Boston- area Promise Initiative used data to promote academic success and to fight homelessness.
Health and Wellbeing K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Program Delivery/Partners
How to Use Case Management Data
Author: Urban Institute | Year of Publication: 2016
This video is a guide to improving a comprehensive community change initiative.
Community Engagement Data Collection Data Management Systems Parent and Community Engagement
Long-term Change Takes Real-time Data
Author: Sarah Gillespie, Mary Bogle | Year of Publication: 2016
This blog post emphasizes the need for collecting data to successfully implement place-based initiatives, like Promise Neighborhoods. It includes a video guide to improving a comprehensive community change initiative.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems
Building a Culture of Results: A Guide to Emerging Practices in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2016
This guidebook highlights the “culture of results” adopted by Promise Neighborhoods and how the program ensures effective solutions are launched, tracked, improved, and sustained.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems Data Security and Confidentiality
Postsecondary Success in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2016
This promising practices guide is a resource for Promise Neighborhoods as they work to improve postsecondary outcomes for students.
K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Post-Secondary Success Program Delivery/Partners
Early Learning in Promise Neighborhoods
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2016
Many Promise Neighborhoods grantees are well into the implementation phase and adopting different approaches to achieve the common result that all children enter kindergarten ready to succeed. In 2012, the Center for the Study of Social Policy authored a report with snapshots of the early learning work taking shape in the first cohort of Promise Neighborhoods grantees.
Early Childhood Education Family Supports Health and Wellbeing Program Delivery/Partners
Using Data to Make a Difference for Boston-Area Students at Risk of Homelessness
Author: Urban Institute | Year of Publication: 2016
This blog entry is a grantee spotlight on how a Boston-area Promise Initiative uses data to promote academic success and fight homelessness.
Health and Wellbeing K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Program Delivery/Partners