AMERICAN YOUTH POLICY FORUM

AYPF’s mission is to educate, engage, and inform policymakers and practitioners about education, youth, and workforce policies and programs to improve the lives and outcomes of traditionally underserved youth. We carry out this mission by providing research-based information and resources, first-hand learning experiences, convenings, and peer-to-peer networking exchanges to policymakers and youth-serving leaders at the national, state, and local levels. Our goal is to build the knowledge of policymakers and practitioners so they can make better decisions to improve outcomes for underserved youth. We focus primarily on youth who are low-income, systems-involved, disabled, or first in their family to go to college and believe in more equitable outcomes for these young people.