TRANSFORMING YOUNG LIVES
FOR A BETTER FUTURE
EVERY CENT AND DOLLAR DONATED goes towards helping others - specifically youth and young adults with securing basic needs, as well as access supports and resources that will help with rehabilitation and total life transformation. Want to know how your financial support is being utilized? Just ask us! Transparency to donors is important to us.
Getting involved can take several forms. Maybe it's donating time, or choosing to share your ideas, skills and talents...whatever you choose, we are open to your contribution!
Consider partnering with us to help meet the needs of communities across the nation. No great work is ever done alone. We need you!
Our mission is simple, Increase access to care, restore hope, and create opportunities to transform lives, necessary for building stronger families and communities.
THE MOVEMENT
We believe in collective healing across the nation, which requires a movement and change efforts like nothing ever seen before.
Our aim is to mitigate barriers that make it hard for youth and young adults to access food, stable and safe housing, quality mental health care, recovery and rehabilitation programs, medical care, intensive care services, and fundamental family supports.
WHY YOUTH MATTER
In 2023, 828,000 people aged 12 or older (or 0.3%) misused prescription fentanyl or used illegally made fentanyl (IMF) in the past year, including 627,000 people (or 0.2%) who used IMF in the past year.
DRUG USE
Youth in the juvenile justice system are more likely to have mental health disorders than their peers. Substance use disorder is the most common mental health challenge, affecting 76% of youth, followed by high anxiety (33%), ADHD (14%), depression (12%), and posttraumatic stress disorder (12%).
DELINQUENCY
On a single night in 2023, 34,703 unaccompanied youth were experiencing homelessness in the United States. This is a 15% increase from 2022.
HOMLESNESS
Nearly 60% of young men who age out of the foster care system and are legally emancipated have been convicted of a crime. About 1 in 4 kids who age out of the system will not graduate from high school or be able to pass their GED.
EDUCATION
