This guide is a joint effort from the Forum for Youth Investment and the Finance Project designed to help decision makers and community leaders both learn the importance of a good children youth and families (CYF) resource map and lay out the process of creating or improving a CYF resource map of their own. The handbook has been designed to…

This report on at-risk students presents a general overview of the extent of the problem in the State of New York and current responses to it. Pupils-at-risk are defined as those whose school achievement and/or social behavior is negatively and seriously affected by educational, family, societal, or personal problems. These pupils are not…

An optimal vocational evaluation program is described which was provided as part of a treatment of vocational and school behaviors of 119 reluctant learners from twenty-two rural school districts. (The 60-hour vocational evaluation process involved out-of-school psychometric and work sample testing over a two-week period.) An alternative in-school…