Resources for Practitioners

5 Steps to Building & Strengthening Students' Networks Playbook

5 Steps for Building & Strengthening Students’ Networks - Who you know matters.

NCAN Parent Engagement Strategies

Postsecondary Advising Resources

Learn about parent engagement strategies educators can use to help improve students' postsecondary outcomes.

Nurturing Student Networks to Unlock Opportunity by Christensen Institute

Learn more about peer connections and the power of peer social capital. In addition, identify useful strategies on how to promote peer connections.

Guide for Talking about Social Capital by Equitable Futures

A Guide for Talking About Social Capital - Equitable Futures

Learn about this research-based messaging guide for youth advocates working across various sectors (K-12, Higher Ed, Career Navigation, and Youth Development) who want to communicate the value of social capital and build support for programs and interventions that help young people develop.

Striving to Thriving Youth Occupational Identity Formation:

Striving To Thriving - Equitable Futures

Check out this toolkit on designing pathways and learn more about how youth form their occupational identities. Equitable Futures also provides research informed tools and resources on youth occupational identity formation.

Framework on the Developmental Relationships

Developmental Relationships Help Young People Thrive

Read more about the Developmental Relationships Framework drawn from research and the experiences shared by young people. Through this framework, young people can discover who they are, cultivate the abilities needed for them to shape their own lives, and learning how to engage with and contribute to the world around them.