Supporting Interagency Efforts to Reconnect Disconnected Youth

Years of research and practice have shown that reconnecting disconnected youth is difficult, if not impossible, within the bounds of a single intervention. Unless the single intervention is, in reality, not a single program—even a comprehensive one—but rather, a reasonably complex strategy to change young people’s environments and opportunity structures. Success with disconnected youth, therefore, requires a sophisticated effort which crosses over multiple departmental lines. The Forum for Youth Investment's Thaddeus Ferber reports (PDF).