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Aug 8, 2017
First Statewide Pay-for-Success Program Helps At-Risk Moms
Governing magazine reports on South Carolina’s innovative public-private initiative to quadruple the number of low-income families Nurse-Family Partnership serves.
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Jul 25, 2017
Website Helps Delaware Women Get Free Birth Control, Rides to Health Clinics
The Be Your Own Baby website is a part of the $10 million Delaware Contraceptive Access Now initiative, started by the nonprofit Upstream USA with no government funding.
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May 24, 2017
After College, Youth Villages Grad Goes On to Help Other Children
Hannah Harrison accomplished her dream and graduated from ETSU. Just two days later she started working full time at Youth Villages, helping kids going through some of the same things she went through.
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May 24, 2017
“I have everything I need to be this child’s mother.”
Learn how HealthySteps helps parents trust themselves to know what is best for their children.
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May 8, 2017
Dave Thomas Foundation Wants to Take its Adoption Program Nationwide
Rita Soronen shares with Columbus CEO magazine her Foundation’s 12-year plan to save children's lives—and U.S. taxpayers' money.
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Apr 20, 2017
Rising Number of NC Teens Age Out of Foster Care
The Charlotte News & Observer describes how CHSNC is partnering with Wendy’s Wonderful Kids to help older kids find adoptive families.
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Apr 13, 2017
America Has to Close the Workforce Skills Gap
Writing in “Bloomberg View,” the president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas cites Year Up’s community college-based program as the kind of public-private partnership that is essential to growing middle-class jobs.
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Apr 13, 2017
Getting High-School Grads Into the Closed-Off World of Tech
The Atlantic highlights how Year Up matches young, lower-income workers with employers eager to diversify their ranks.
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Apr 10, 2017
Why the U.S. Needs a Thriving Apprenticeship System
Year Up's Jonathan Hasak explains in the Washington Post how work-based education programs can train and "upskill" millions of Americans.
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Mar 18, 2017
Improving Outcomes Of Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
The “outcomes” for the 24,000 youth in the foster care system that enter adulthood each year don’t look good – they are less likely to graduate college, are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed, and have limited financial resources.