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Youth Employment and Financial Capability: A Municipal Action Guide

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement

Across the nation, youth employment programs introduce thousands of teens to the working world each year. Cities can improve financial outcomes for future generations of workers by directly incorporating financial capability programs into existing municipal youth employment efforts....

Who Participates in What Processes?: From Groupthink to Democracy in Bicycle Policy Advocacy

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source The League of American Bicyclists

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Transportation & Mobility

When setting the national bike advocacy agenda, the League of American Bicyclists believes that it is important to include a range of different perspectives, particularly from youth voices; not only does this empower younger participants, but it is a necessary first step toward championing...

A Framework for Effectively Engaging Youth and Schools in Inclusive Resilience Planning

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Cities & Schools

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance, Environment & Natural Resources, Community Development, Public Spaces

Today’s youth are rarely invited into the city planning process. This paper examines the experiences of young people involved in Y-PLAN, an initiative focused on fostering relationships between civic leaders and young people around meaningful action in order to create resilient cities...

Healthy Food Zone Model Ordinance

Type Model Law

Year 2009

Level City or Town

State(s) -

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Health, Education, Food

This model law creates a healthy food zone around schools by regulating the location of fast food restaurants and mobile food vendors so that children are presented with healthy food options....

Creating a Healthy Food Zone Around Schools

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2009

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Mayors Innovation Project

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Food, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education, Community Development, Public Spaces, Transportation & Mobility

Many schools are surrounded by fast food restaurants, which provide students with easy access to unhealthy foods and undermine schools' efforts to offer nutritious meals. Prohibiting fast food restaurants from locating near schools is one strategy to help reduce childhood obesity...

2010 Santa Clara Ordinance Regulating Toys and Incentives with Restaurant Food

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level County

State(s) California

Source County of Santa Clara

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families, Food

Restaurants encourage children and adolescents to choose specific menu items by linking them with free toys and other incentive items. This ordinance states that a restaurant may not provide an incentive item linked to the purchase of a single food item or meal if it includes excessive...

Y-Plan Public Space Policy Brief

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source U.C. Berkeley Center For Cities & Schools

Policy Areas Community Development, Public Spaces, Health, Transportation & Mobility

Public spaces are crucial to a community’s collective well-being. Although public spaces are intended to be equally accessible, young people, particularly low-income BIPOC, are made to feel unwelcome or excluded in many public spaces by the built environment, police, and other users....

San Miguel County Detention Center Policies and Procedures

Type Ordinance

Year 2010

Level County

State(s) Colorado

Source San Miguel County Detention Center

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Public Safety, Children & Families

This policy prohibits staff at the San Miguel County Detention Center from asking detainees about their immigration status or place of birth. It also outlines procedures for when an ICE detainer is received for the detainee....

Alternatives to Arrest for Young People

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2017

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Public Safety

Evidence shows that young people achieve better life outcomes and are less likely to commit future crimes when kept out of juvenile court and detention facilities. This brief highlights case studies in which cities have diverted youth away from the juvenile justice system through...

Making Strides 2018: State Report Cards on Support for Walking, Bicycling, and Active Kids and Communities

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2018

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Safe Routes to School National Partnership

Policy Areas Public Safety, Health, Transportation & Mobility

States have a serious responsibility to enact policies and practices and implement programs to ensure significant benefit for residents’ health. Using state report cards, this report assesses how supportive each state is of walking, bicycling, and physical activity for children and...

Expanding Voting Rights

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source The Center for Popular Democracy

Policy Areas Democracy & Governance

This policy brief discusses the problem of lower voter turnout in municipal and county elections. The brief discusses possible causes for this issue such as low voter engagement, a lack of community grounding, and the absence of viable political options. The brief proposes solutions...

Why Adopt an Obesity Prevention Resolution?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2010

Level County

State(s) All States

Source ChangeLab Solutions

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Food, Public Spaces

Passing a local resolution is one way for communities to promote obesity prevention policies. This report outlines NPLAN's model obesity prevention resolution, explaining how it works and the specific policies it promotes. It focuses on ten areas of improvement: (1) the built environment,...

Increase Public Safety and Advance Racial Justice by Repealing Juvenile Curfews

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County

State(s) All States

Source Local Progress

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Community Development, Public Safety

Roughly three-quarters of American cities have juvenile curfew laws that criminalize youth for being in public spaces during late night and school hours. These laws disproportionately punish black and brown youth and low-income families. This policy brief argues that juvenile curfew...

Youth Power Agenda in Milwaukee Public Schools, WI

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, County, School Board, School District

State(s) Wisconsin

Source Local Progress

Policy Areas Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Education, Public Safety

This case study analyzes how student and youth advocacy efforts have advanced alternative visions of safety within the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) district. As a result of this student-led campaign, MPS has terminated all of its contracts with the Milwaukee Police Department, terminated...

Building a Stronger Commonwealth: The Business Case for Investing in Pennsylvania's Youngest Learners

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level City or Town

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source ReadyNation

Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights

The foundation for success starts in the earliest years of children's lives, when they begin to develop the knowledge, skills, and behaviors they need to do well in school and beyond. To fix our failing workforce pipeline, we need to help our children get the good start in life that...

2008 Berkeley Resolution 08-73 Supporting Equitable School Outcomes for Children and Youth

Type Ordinance

Year 2008

Level City or Town, School District

State(s) California

Source Berkeley Unified School District

Policy Areas Education, Children & Families

This resolution states that the Berkeley School Board will work together with the Berkeley City Council, United in Action, and the community to achieve the "2020 Vision for Berkeley's Children and Youth." This vision outlines that all children, regardless of race, ethnicity and income,...

2019 San Francisco Ordinance 41-19 Regulating Police Questioning of Minors

Type Ordinance

Year 2019

Level City or Town, County

State(s) California

Source City and County of San Francisco

Policy Areas Children & Families, Civil Rights, Public Safety

This ordinance regulates police questioning of persons 17 years of age or younger. Specifically, the ordinance requires police officers to inform minors of their right to have a "responsible adult" present during questioning and to obtain written consent from the minor and their "responsible...

Guide for Embedding Breakthrough Innovation in Local Government

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source City Accelerator

Policy Areas Energy, Children & Families, Democracy & Governance, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Environment & Natural Resources, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Transportation & Mobility

Government is often thought of as a place where good ideas go to die. We who work in local government know this is not true. We also know, however, that cities' current set of approaches and solutions won't be enough to address our most pressing challenges. We need more and fundamentally...

What Works Cities: The City Hall Data Gap

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Bloomberg Philanthropies

Policy Areas Data & Technology

Unlocking the potential of data and evidence to inform decision making is key to ensuring cities thrive in the 21st century. This brief quantifies cities' current practices around the use of data. The analysis is focused on information from the 39 cities visited by What Works Cities...

Declining Childhood Obesity Rates: Where Are We Seeing Signs of Progress?

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level County

State(s) All States

Source Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families, Food

After increasing steadily for decades, the national childhood obesity rate has leveled off. This policy brief examines reports from across the country to learn more about where progress is being made to address childhood obesity....

Innovation and the City

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source Center for an Urban Future

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, Energy, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families, Health, Housing, Public Safety, Education, Transportation & Mobility

In recent years, cities have become the drivers of government innovation. As urban growth has exploded over the past half century - increasing from a third to nearly 60 percent of world population today - local officials have been forced to solve problems and generate new ideas, policies,...

Model Resolution for Protecting Immigrant Students

Type Model Law

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source American Civil Liberties Union of California

Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Housing, Public Safety, Education

The attached Model Campus Safe Zones Resolution language was developed for K-12 school districts that are contemplating adopting protections for their immigrant students. ACLU recommends that any resolution contain language to address these critical issues: limiting the sharing of...

Mental Health Facts: Children and Teens

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2015

Level National

State(s) All States

Source National Alliance on Mental Illness

Policy Areas Health, Children & Families

This infographic outlines statistics on adolescent mental illness....

Young Voices at the Ballot Box: Advancing Efforts to Lower the Voting Age

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2015

Level County, City or Town, State

State(s) All States

Source Vote16USA

Policy Areas Civil Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children & Families

We have a voter crisis in America that demands bold solutions. One of these potential solutions is lowering the voting age in American elections to 16 years old. This report presents a cohesive argument for lowering the voting age to 16 in municipal elections, addresses counterarguments,...

Trends in Smart City Development

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2016

Level City or Town

State(s) All States

Source National League of Cities

Policy Areas Community Development, Data & Technology

This report examines the meanings and practices associated with the term 'smart cities.' Smart city initiatives involve three components: information and communication technologies (ICTs) that generate and aggregate data; analytical tools which convert that data into usable information;...

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