CT youth facing obstacles need additional support
Slipped through the grasp of schools, young people who are disconnected need intensive supports provided by community-based organizations to help them reconnect to education and employment pathways.
Op-Eds
Opinion: Going deeper in the data on Connecticut’s 119,000
In today's Hartford Courant, CT Opportunity Project's Adhlere Coffy highlights the obstacles facing young people in Connecticut who are experiencing or at risk of experiencing disconnection, and how this data can be used to inform positive change.
Opinion: Working together toward a brighter future for CT’s young people
The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut welcomes the “119K Commission,” the newly established initiative by the CT Conference of Municipalities (CCM).
CT’s disconnected youth crisis has an enormous human, economic cost
CBIA and Dalio Education are working together to amplify efforts highlighting Connecticut’s young adults who are at-risk or disconnected from education and employment, and advance solutions to a statewide issue that has enormous human and economic cost.