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.
Cradle to Career
Find resources related to the four pipeline areas: Early Childhood, Kindergarten to Grade 12, College and Career, and Family and Community Supports
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND WHITE HOUSE WEBINAR SERIES
Understand how to blend and braid federal, state, and local funds to implement whole child approaches to education.
Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood
Learn about sustaining Promise Neighborhoods from grantees and others with expert guidance and reflections.
Results (93)
A New Day for Data: Passport to Prosperity - Indianola, MS
Author: Matthew Johnson | Year of Publication: 2016
This data story features the Indianola Promise Neighborhood’s use of data to transform lives by aiming to close the disparity of opportunities for children in rural Mississippi.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Early Childhood Education Family Supports Parent and Community Engagement
Leveraging Policy Advocacy to Keep Students Healthy (GPRAs 8–9)
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2016
The capacity to leverage policy advocacy and systems change is critical to scaling up and sustaining efforts to ensure youth living in Promise Neighborhoods are healthy and connected to the necessary services and supports to prepare them for college and career success.
Health and Wellbeing K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Policy & Systems
Integrating Family Financial Security into Cradle-to-Career Pipelines: Learning Lessons from Promise Neighborhoods
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2016
With support from Citi Foundation, PolicyLink and the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink (PNI) joined forces with five PNI communities (Brooklyn, New York; Los Angeles, California; Chula Vista, California; Orlando, Florida; and Indianola, Mississippi) to design and carry out strategies for embedding financial security into their pipelines of supports. The collaborative effort set out to embed the concepts of budgeting, emergency savings, saving for college, and credit access, into existing PNI programs.
Family Supports Financial Security Post-Secondary Success Program Delivery/Partners
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