Find Out Your State’s Numbers
Below you can find information about the number of Opportunity Youth in your state, and the impact of investing in reconnecting those young people. For these numbers by District in your state, contact Gerod@ForumFyi.org.
For District Numbers For Your State, contact Gerod@ForumFyi.org.
Additional Resources
The Opportunity Index: What’s Your Score?
Understand national trends and find out how your state and county measure up on four key indicators of opportunity
Bridge to Reconnection
Produced by Civic Enterprises, this report offers comprehensive data and a roadmap for reconnecting one million opportunity youth each year through federal funding streams. Its research forms the basis of the collaborative Reconnecting Youth Campaign.
Measure of America: Youth Disconnection Interactive Tool
There’s a problem with our conception of progress in America today. It’s based on money measures and not much else. Measure of America creates metrics to tell us about how people are doing. One fundamental indicator of societal progress and well-being is how young people are faring in their transition to adulthood. And on this measure, 4.8 million young people are falling behind. Learn more on the Measure of America
site.
The Opportunity Atlas
Which neighborhoods in America offer children the best chance to rise out of poverty? The Opportunity Atlas answers this question using anonymous data following 20 million Americans from childhood to their mid-30s. It lets you trace the roots of today’s affluence and poverty back to the neighborhoods where people grew up, and helps you develop local solutions to ensure more children rise out of poverty.
Opportunity Insights
Based at Harvard University, Opportunity Insights brings together researchers and policy analysts to collect and translate “big data” for to help local efforts to improve upward mobility, scale solutions and inform policy change to improve opportunity for all.
