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My Brother’s Keeper Ohio was launched this week with the guidance of The Ohio State University Kirwan Institute. This statewide partnership is committed to the success of boys and young men of color. My Brother’s Keeper nationwide initiative was created by former President Barack Obama in 2014. The focus of the initiative is about improving opportunities for young, minority men. Visit this link for more information on the Kirwan Institute or to read more about the initiative as reported in Ohio State’s The Lantern.

Through eight richly detailed oral histories, Jumping into Civic Life helps open our imaginations to the possibilities for professionals to make constructive contributions to the task of making democracy work as it should. The firsthand stories of public work in these oral histories are told by professionals from six states who chose or were invited to jump into civic life as active participants. Their stories help us see what it means and takes to be a "citizen professional" who respects and supports the capacities, intelligence, expertise, and agency of others. The book's editors are Scott J. Peters, professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University; Theodore R. Alter, professor of agricultural, environmental, and regional economics and codirector of the Center for Economic and Community Development at Penn State; and Timothy J. Shaffer, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the assistant director of the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas State University. Follow this link to order a book. Sourced from the Kettering Foundation newsletter

Young people in America face an economic landscape marked by increasingly expensive higher education costs, more frequent job changes, and greater personal responsibility for retirement savings. It is more important than ever that youth are financially literate in order to navigate the many difficult decisions they will face during their lifetimes. Follow this link to read the complete article. Sourced from Brookings

Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has launched an interactive data tool to help community leaders build grassroots strategies to address the opioid epidemic. The opioid misuse Community Assessment Tool enables users to overlay substance misuse data against socioeconomic, census and other public information. This data will help leaders, researchers and policymakers assess what actions will be most effective in addressing the opioid crisis at the local level. The Community Assessment Tool is free and available to the public. It can be accessed on USDA’s Rural Opioid Misuse Webpage or at opioidmisusetool.norc.org. Sourced from USDA Rural Development newsletter