The Center for Youth and Communities

Reports and Publications

Meschede, T., Erickson Warfield, M., Hoover, M., Haque, Z., Zhang, M., Melchior, A., Burack, C. (2024). The FIRST® Longitudinal Study’s 10 Years of Follow-up Data: Final Report. Waltham, MA: The Center for Youth in Community, Heller School, Brandeis University.

March 2024. Hughes, DM., & Warfield, M.E. The Hopewell case study and teaching notes. In C. Carlson, J. Cutcher-Gershenfeld & M. Kriegsman (Eds.), The social impact case collection: Reimagining Capitalism through Case-Based Learning. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press.

Meschede, T., Haque, Z., Warfield, M. E., Melchior, A., Burack, C., & Hoover, M. (2022). Transforming STEM outcomes: Results from a seven-year follow-up study of an after-school robotics program's impacts on freshman students. School Science and Mathematics, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssm.12552

Curnan, S.P. and Hughes, D.M. (2020). Education Works: University-Employer Engagement Guide, University Edition. Save the Children US and Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University for USAID’s Building the Capacity for Youth Activity: Institutional Capacity Development Support for Ethiopian Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved from https://heller.brandeis.edu/cyc/reports/index.html.


Tyagi, S., Hughes, D.M., Tai, T., Curnan, S.P., and Burack, C. (2020). Education Works: Transferable Life Skills Trainers’ Guide and Curriculum, University Edition. Save the Children US and Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University for USAID’s Building the Capacity for Youth Activity: Institutional Capacity Development Support for Ethiopian Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved from https://heller.brandeis.edu/cyc/reports/index.html.


Tyagi, S., Hughes, D.M., Burack, C., and Curnan, S.P. (2020). Education Works: Career Development Center Management Course, University Edition. Save the Children US and Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University for USAID’s Building the Capacity for Youth Activity: Institutional Capacity Development Support for Ethiopian Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved from https://heller.brandeis.edu/cyc/reports/index.html.


Burack, C., Hughes, D.M., Tyagi, S., Curnan, S.P. (2020). Education Works: Assessment of Institutionalization of Student Employability and Career Development, University Edition. USAID’s Building the Capacity for Youth Activity: Institutional Capacity Development Support for Ethiopian Institutions of Higher Education: Save the Children US and Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Retrieved from https://heller.brandeis.edu/cyc/reports/index.html.