Many young people face barriers and challenges on the journey through high school and onto further education and/or employment. Having basic needs met, positive relationships with trusted adults, access to an array of well-coordinated support services and relationships with adult allies as well as alternative pathways to a desired future can inspire hope and offer the encouragement needed to transform one’s trajectory.
Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF) is a national network of 20 small, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities that – individually and together – are on a learning journey to better understand barriers that young people face. Using the Collective Impact Framework, these initiatives mobilize and unite entire communities to work with young people to identify, prototype and co-develop new approaches to promote youth success.
In this webinar, the Tamarack Institute's CBYF Director Angelina Pelletier joins Sylvia Cheuy to share highlights and insights from the first four years of CBYF’s learning network.
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In partnership with young people and informed by their insights and needs, each CBYF community has mobilized multiple sectors and engaged its entire community to create new opportunities and prototype innovative initiatives that provide young people with the supports they need to complete high school and build plans for bright futures. The insights and successes achieved for youth within each of the CBYF local communities are inspiring AND they are only part of the story. These 20 communities have not only developed a deeper understanding of youth needs and solutions, but they have also been catalysts for systems-level impacts that are changing our collective understanding of what young people need to thrive; what’s important about how that is done; what communities can accomplish by working together; and, how actors in youth serving systems can better promote youth success.
Join us for a dynamic conversation about what it takes – and what becomes possible – when whole communities are mobilized to creatively reimagine new solutions with and for young people.
Learn More:
Learn more about Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF)
Discover the member communities of the CBYF National Learning Network
Read CBYF’s Community Innovation Fund Impact Report
Explore the Tamarack article Interconnected Practices for Community and Systems Impact