DCAYA Executive Director, Maggie Riden provided a statement to the Washington Post on the new direction of the Children and Youth Investment Trust Corp.
"Until there's a change in the leadership structure so there's a clear division between public and private," she said, "we're not going to see private funders come back to the table."
Click here to read the full story, "Children and Youth Investment Trust tries to Reinvent Itself After Thomas Scandal"
After a two year battle over youth job training grants headed by the Workforce Investment Council, the grants were awarded to three non-profits championed for providing youth with quality programming. Recently, however, the grants where suspiciously withdrawn possibly because of bureaucratic dilemmas. Read blog here.
Maggie Riden was interviewed by Kavitha Cardoza of WAMU 85.5 about the changes occurring in DC's summer youth programs and the progress still to come. A year ago, with the help of DCAYA, WAMU brought awareness to the disorganization of DC summer youth programs Riden explains, "No agency was tracking that information in a consistent format, or collecting or keeping that information,". Through collaboration with city entities and service providers, many changes were made to provide youth with quality summer programming, however, there is still more work to be done. Follow the link to read and listen to the WAMU story.
The July 13th edition of the Washington Post included an article profiling the changes to this year's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) and featured DCAYA's own Anne Abbott and her thoughts on SYEP over the years. You can read the full article here.
DCAYA was the featured guest blogger for the National Summer Learning Association's "Smarter Summers" blog for the week of July 09th. You can read the full blog here.
The May 03 edition of The Root DC featured an op-ed by DCAYA Executive Director Maggie Riden on the strength and power of the District's Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation and the need to see it properly funded by the city to better encourage outside investment in the District. You can read the full op-ed on the Root's website here.
The February 17th edition of the Washington Times featured an article on new education legislation put forward by the DC City Council on The College Preparation Plan Act of 2012 and the Early Warning System Act of 2012. Staff writer Tom Howell quoted DCAYA Policy Analyst Anne Abbott and her testimony to the Committee of the Whole. The full article is available here.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness featured DCAYA's 2011 study of homeless and unstably housed youth, "From the Streets to Stability" as one of its promising practices and counting and surveying homeless youth! You can link to the NAEH blog here.
A blog post on the Washington Post Local Edition spotlighted the issue of child and family homelessness this week and in addition to citing numbers from the National Center for Family Homelessness on homeless children gave a shout out to DCAYA's 2011 homeless and unstably housed youth survey and the data analysis done in "From the Streets to Stability", DCAYA's policy brief and recommendations on the survey. Read the full post here.
DCAYA's 2011 study of homeless and unstably housed youth was featured in article documenting the plight of homeless young people in the December 04th edition of the Washington Post. You can read the full article here.
