![]() 1 Lassen County, for example, experiences a disconnected youth rate of 53% making it not only one of the highest rates of disconnection in California, but throughout the country. In the map below, we find higher percentages of disconnected youth in Northern California, the Central Valley, and Imperial County, areas that are more rural and that tend to lack adequate social services for those in need. While that is certainly good news, it is prudent to consider how disconnected youth are spatially dispersed throughout California and the opportunities we have to better serve them. However, California also experienced a decrease of disconnected youth from 2010-15 by 18%, indicating improved well-being for that vulnerable population since the Great Recession. In Promising Gains, Persistent Gaps: Youth Disconnection in America, Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis find there were approximately 609,000 disconnected youth in California in 2015, easily the highest rate in the nation. In March 2017, Measure of America, a trusted partner of United Way, released their latest report on disconnected youth, those not enrolled in school or participating in the labor force between the ages of 16-24.
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