• Academically Successful & Workforce Ready

    Young people: Enter Kindergarten prepared to succeed in school Are academically successful Graduate from high school college- and/or career-ready and prepared for a lifetime of learning Successfully complete post-secondary education...

  • Physically Healthy and Safe

    Young people: Are born healthy Are physically healthy Are physically safe 1. Are born healthy babies born at low birth weight 2. Are physically healthy immunized by 24 monthsuninsuredhealthy weight...

  • Socially and Emotionally Healthy & Safe

    Young people: Have a significant attachment to nurturing adults Avoid risky behaviors Have good mental health and are emotionally resilient Respect diversity and demonstrate empathy and pro-social behaviors 1. Have...

  • Socially and Civically Engaged

    Young people: Engage in community, school, and/or extra-curricular activities Are aware of, appreciate and demonstrate behaviors of personal and social responsibility 1. Engage in community, school, and/or extra-curricular activities Progress...

About Ready by 21 Dashboard

The Ready by 21 Coalition in Austin, Texas began with a Youth Issues Forum convened by Austin’s planning council, the Community Advancement Network (CAN), and the workforce development board, Workforce Solutions Capital Area, under the auspices of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Workforce Solutions Capital Area sponsored the effort for a number of years after inception by providing facilitation and project coordination.

The Challenge

In communities around the country, leaders are developing approaches to reach the goal of having all youth ready. Still, far too few youth in America are ready, too few communities are providing youth enough quality supports, and too many leaders are not working together effectively.

The Approach
Ready by 21 provides clear standards to achieve collective impact, tools and solutions to help leaders make progress, and ways to measure and track success along the way.  Specifically, Ready by 21 helps leaders:

The Partners
The Forum and the Ready by 21 National Partners – national organizations from the fields of education, government, nonprofits, business, research and philanthropy – are committed to helping communities carry out Ready by 21 strategies.  The Partners provide tools, training and technical assistance to increase the collective impact of community and state efforts.

Combined, the National Partners reach over 650,000 state and local leaders who impact the lives of more than 100 million children and youth across the United States.