collaboration

At a recent community symposium on the commercial sexual exploitation of young people in Dallas, the audience witnessed an unrehearsed demonstration of just how far the city has come in its approach to combating trafficking.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care Program is a community-wide approach to helping people (including unaccompanied youth) experiencing homelessness and to providing the services they need to move into transitional and permanent housing.
When Marguerita Lightfoot and her colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles set about to study ways to keep runaway and homeless youth from having risky sex and using drugs, they intended to enlist youth in a randomized controlled trial.
“In this economy, what’s a better investment? Kids or the stock market?” Alison Draheim asks a group of people gathered at a community event. She’s trying to raise money for the over 800 students in the Green Bay Area Public School District who are homeless. As Family, Community and Homeless Resources Coordinator, Draheim helps enroll homeless students in school and...
Youth Emergency Services and Subia, Inc., a Subway Restaurant franchise, have been collaborating for years to help Omaha, NE's homeless youth. In this podcast, they talk about the benefits and origins of their unique relationship, which goes beyond standard corporate giving. Time: 3:56 | Size: 3.6 MB
Youth Emergency Services and Subia, Inc., a Subway restaurant franchise, have been collaborating for years to help Omaha, NE's homeless youth. In this podcast, they talk about the benefits and origins of their unique relationship. Time: 3:56 | Size: 3.6 MB | Transcript
Does your community’s homeless assistance system move youth (and others) into permanent housing quickly and cost-effectively, and does it help them stay there?
Two questions keep the leaders of every mentoring program up at night. How do we recruit bright, enthusiastic, committed mentors? And once we recruit them, how do we keep them engaged?   For a group of concerned child and youth-serving organizations in Central Ohio, the answer was clear: make the mentoring experience as easy as possible for those willing to give their time.  
Among NCFY's most popular publications, this guide gives an in-depth introduction to Positive Youth Development, an approach to working with young people that encourages and empowers them. The book includes practical tips, checklists and resources for learning more.
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