Opportunity Youth
In the News
- WICC: Melissa In The Morning: Helping Fight Student Hardships (April 2025)
- Hartford Courant: Opinion: Local adult education must be part CT plan for our youth (March 2025)
- News 12: Education hearing to be held in Hartford on bills to address youth disconnection (March 2025)
- Philanthropy News Digest: CT’s disconnected youth need an action plan (March 2025)
- CT Mirror: CT’s disconnected youth need an action plan (March 2025)
- Greenwich Times: CT can get disconnected youth on the right track (Feb 2025)
- CT By The Numbers: CT Must Invest in Opportunities for At-Risk Youth to Forge A Better Future for All of Us (Dec 2024)
- NBC 30: Advocates push for more money to support struggling teens and young adults (Dec 2024)
- NBC 30: Nonprofits raise concerns about disengaged young adults in Connecticut (Dec 2024)
- CT Examiner: Youth Advocates Call for Better Data, Launching ‘Office of Youth Success’ (Dec 2024)
- WSHU: ‘Disconnected youth’ advocates lay out their hopes for 2025 legislative session (Dec 2024)
- Fox 61: Advocates, lawmakers talk critical issues facing Connecticut's disconnected youth (Dec 2024)
- CT News Junkie: Young People Make A Case For Greater State Investment In Reaching Disconnected Youth (Dec 2024)
- News 12: Youth advocates: Nearly $1 billion proposal could cut teen crime and boost Connecticut’s economy (Dec 2024)
- CT Mirror: CT must act now to save its young residents (Nov 2024)
- Hartford Business Journal: Action plan to re-engage CT’s at-risk youth is needed now (Nov 2024)
- CT Mirror: CT urgently needs an action plan to re-engage at-risk youth (Nov 2024)
- For the People: VCF 'Valley Gives Back' - UWCT 'Young People First' (Nov 2024)
- Fairfield Hamlet Hub: Disconnected Youth Report Requires Urgent Action (Nov 2024)
- For the People: UWCT 'Young People First' (Nov 2024)
- CT Insider: Opinion: Action Plan To Re-engage Connecticut’s At-Risk Youth Is Needed Now (Oct 2024)
- CT Mirror: Inside a plan to get CT’s 119K ‘disconnected youth’ back on track (Oct 2024)
- Fairfield Hamlet Hub: Disconnected Youth Report Requires Urgent Action (Oct 2024)
- Westfair Business Journal: United Way of CT endorses ‘solutions’ to connect youth (Oct 2024)
- CT Mirror: Developing a path forward for CT’s disconnected youth (August 2024)
- CT Mirror: ‘Disconnected youth’ commission taking first steps toward strategy (August 2024)
- CT Mirror: Murphy Introduces Legislation To Modernize Job Corps (June 2024)
- CT Mirror: CT bills on teacher certification, mandated reporting pass House (May 2024)
- Hartford Business: Barbara Dalio to CT biz leaders: Mentoring, training programs key to engaging ‘disconnected’ youth (May 2024)
- CT News Junkie: Speaking Up about Connecticut’s Unspoken Crisis (May 2024)
- WTNH: Dalio Education aims to elevate voices of disconnected youth in Connecticut (April 2024)
- NBC CT: Lawmakers consider bill to help thousands of disconnected youth (April 2024)
- Hartford Courant: Lawmakers’ plan to stop wave of CT kids from being disconnected advances (April 2024)
- NBC CT: Thousands of youths in Connecticut struggling with school and employment disconnect (April 2024)
- CT Mirror: For youth, CT’s ‘Quiet Corner’ is becoming the ‘Forgotten Corner’ (April 2024)
- Patch: Data Underscores Imperative for Action on CT's At-Risk Youth (April 2024)
- CT Insider: A new effort to address disconnected youth in CT launches four years after a letdown
- For the People: Opportunity Youth
- BNN: Hartford Students Rally for Reinstated Free Bus Program Amid Disconnection Crisis
- Fox 61: Connecticut legislators hear testimony from students at public hearing on proposal for 'disconnected youth'
- CT Mirror: ‘Disconnected youth’ bill receives support during public hearing
- CT News Junkie: Advocates Say Data Collection, Sharing Is A Big Piece Of The Disconnected Youth Puzzle
- Connecticut Insider: New bill would aid CT's 'disconnected' youth through bus passes, data sharing, more
- Connecticut News Junkie: Lawmakers To Consider Bill Aimed At Supporting Disconnected, At-Risk Youth
- Connecticut by the Numbers: Coalition Calls for Series of State Actions to Help Disconnected Youth Get Back-On-Track
- Connecticut by the Numbers: United Way of Connecticut Launches Statewide Coalition to Address At-Risk and Disconnected Youth
- Hartford Courant: How to address Connecticut's unspoken crisis Opinion
- BNN: Bridging the Gap: Connecticut's $50 Million Plan to Reconnect 119,000 Youths
- NBC 30: Disconnected youth in Connecticut say they feel hopeless and forgotten
- CT Mirror: For youth, CT’s ‘Quiet Corner’ is becoming the ‘Forgotten Corner’
- Greater Hartford Patch: Coalition Calls for State Actions to Help Disconnected Youth
- CT Mirror: For youth, CT’s ‘Quiet Corner’ is becoming the ‘Forgotten Corner’
- Greater Hartford Patch: Coalition Calls for State Actions to Help Disconnected Youth
- Valley Independent Sentinel: Report Highlights Gap Between Available Jobs, Workforce Skills
- CT News Junkie: OP-ED | When Fact is More Alarming Than Fiction, Action is Required
- The Chronicle: United Way launches coalition, including EASTCONN, to address at-risk youth
- Hartford Courant: Jacquelyn Santiago Nazario: Preparing Connecticut’s youth for opportunity can’t wait
- CT's children in crisis can learn that 'letting people help me is OK'
- WNPR: Connecticut’s young people on the state’s 'Unspoken Crisis'