Formally established in January 2006, the Communities Collaborating to Reconnect Youth (CCRY) Network is a group of workforce and youth development professionals, working in communities across the country, who have joined forces to improve young people's opportunities and well-being by establishing innovative partnerships among local youth-serving systems and are creating effective cross-system collaboration in communities. CCRY Network member communities share ideas, challenges, lessons, and best practices for reconnecting youth. The Network also seeks to raise awareness of issues affecting disconnected youth at local, state and federal levels and provide recommendations to policymakers on how to best serve these young people. Moreover, CCRY Network communities have invested in considerable capacity-building efforts and innovative approaches that include:

• Building an Effective Youth Delivery System

• Creating Postsecondary education pathways and collaborations

• Making the Juvenile Justice/Workforce Connection

• Building an Employer Engagement Pipeline

• Benchmarking Progress on the Path to Labor Market Success

*Membership is open to communities doing cross-system collaboration to address the needs of vulnerable youth_. For more information about membership, please email the CCRY Network.