October — a Month to Focus on Improving Children’s Lives
Specifically, let’s address what the 2023 Dalio Education report called for: an “increasing focus on particularly vulnerable subgroups,” including “young people involved in child welfare.”
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Dan Haar: 'Transformational change' to save youths will mean hard choices. Can CT make them?
Connecticut has an estimated 119,000 young people, one in every five ages 14 to 26, who are not in school if they're high school-aged, or not working if they're older, or headed swiftly in the wrong direction.
Group releases report on how to help Connecticut’s disconnected youth
There’s a growing population of 119,000 disconnected and at-risk youth in Connecticut
This week, the 119k Commission, a group dedicated to tackling this crisis, released a new 120-page report and a plan to resolve the issue.
119K Commission Releases Plan To Address Disconnected Youth In Connecticut
Over a year in the making, the 119K Commission released its comprehensive, 120-page report on Wednesday detailing four strategic pillars and 22 “aligned” actions on how to reconnect 60,000 of the roughly 119,000 disconnected youth in Connecticut.