D2 Center directors Greg Emmel and Carolyn Miller and Youth Academic Navigator (YAN) Kelsey Hansen attended the 2017 Western Regional Reengagement Plus! Convening in Tacoma, WA, December 6-8, 2017. As always the conference provided excellent networking opportunities...
Last week, co-director Greg Emmel and I were in Dubuque, IA, for the fifth annual National League of Cities Reengagement Plus! Convening. This year's host, Reengage Dubuque, is a partnership between the Dubuque Community School District, Northeast Iowa Community...
The 2014 Reengagement Plus Convening was held in Portland, Oregon on December 10 and 11. The gathering of 250 people from 38 communities in 22 states included site visits to Portland’s Reconnection Center as well as a variety of alternative schools in the Portland...
In mid-December, D2 Center co-director Greg Emmel, YAN Alberto Gonzales, Jerry Bexten from The Sherwood Foundation and I attended the annual Dropout Re-engagement Network meeting, the "Re-engagement Plus Convening," in Los Angeles. This is the third such conference...
Re-engagement efforts continue to grow across the U.S. Check out the latest from our colleagues in Chicago in this blog post from the NLC's Andrew Moore. All returning students undergo an intake assessment designed to identify barriers to school success, which...
Please read our colleague Andrew Moore's blog post on new re-engagement efforts in Los Angeles, CA. The City of Los Angeles and the LA Unified School District are partnering to support out of school youth in thirteen re-engagement centers throughout the city. Andrew...
Last week, D2 Center co-director Greg Emmel, Barb Farho from the City of Omaha Mayor's Office, and I flew to Denver to attend this year's Dropout Re-engagement Network meeting along with representatives from seventeen other cities across the U.S. The conference was...
The Rennie Center has published a case study about Massachusetts' efforts to reconnect out-of-school youth. Called Forgotten Youth: Re-Engaging Students Through Dropout Recovery, the case study focuses on the Boston Re-engagement Center, which co-director Greg Emmel...
Check out our colleague Andrew Moore's blog post on the National League of Cities Blog: Education Re-engagement Centers Spreading. Andrew's post focuses on thirteen new re-engagement centers that opened this past week in Los Angeles, CA. These new centers are a...
Yesterday, co-director Greg Emmel and I shared the D2 Center's efforts, activities and some early results at the annual Youth Transitions Funders Group (YTFG) annual meeting in Detroit, MI. The YTFG is "a network of grantmakers whose mission is to help all youth make...
Check out this video from Need to Know on PBS about Philadelphia's Project U-Turn and their efforts to re-engage out-of-school youth, including their re-engagement center, which opened in 2008. As part of our participation in the Re-engagement Center Network,...
Last month, Greg Emmel and I spoke on behalf of the D2 Center for a webinar entitled Re-engagement Centers-Key Element in a City Strategy to Recover Dropouts, hosted by the National League of Cities (NLC) Institute for Youth, Education and Families (YEF Institute). In...
Greg Emmel, one of our D2 Center directors, will be participating in a free webinar sponsored by the National League of Cities (NLC) Institute for Youth, Education and Families (YEF Institute). “Reengagement Centers: Key Element in a City Strategy to Recover Dropouts”...
Last week, co-director Greg Emmel and I flew to Boston for a site visit of their re-engagement center. The Boston Re-Engagement Center, or REC as it’s known, is a joint initiative of Boston Public Schools and the Boston Private Industry Council (PIC), and is housed on...
Yesterday the D2 Center was pleased to join the Sherwood Foundation, Building Bright Futures and the City of Omaha to co-host the Multiple Pathways to Graduation Summit, held at Metropolitan Community College Swanson Conference Center on the Fort Omaha Campus. The D2...