Collaboration Profiles

The Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP) has developed a series of collaboration profiles to promote enhanced collaboration at the federal, state, and local levels. The profiles provide real work examples of the ways that different organizations work together to improve outcomes for youth.  Each collaboration is unique in their purpose, accomplishments, how they structure their work, the challenges that they face, and the types of organizations that are involved.   

Group of teenage friends gardening
Goal:
Promote youth involvement in the environment and educate youth about America’s natural and cultural heritage by engaging youth in volunteer, educational, and employment programs as well as recreational opportunities.
Foreman Instructions
Goal:
Utilize cross-agency partnership to address a common goal of identifying and addressing youth substance use.
Promise Neighborhoods Logo
Goal:
Provide a continuum of cradle-to-career solutions to significantly improve the educational and developmental outcomes of youth in the nation’s most distressed communities and to transform those communities through a place-based collaborative approach.
USDA and the Military Support Youth through Positive Youth Development
Goal:
Enhance the lives of military-connected children and youth by linking them with quality support and educational programs to meet their unique needs and promote positive youth development.
Providing Unbiased Services for LGBTQ Youth Project
Goal:
Educate staff and encourage organizational policy changes to provide unbiased services for LGBTQ youth in in-home and out-of-home care settings.
Father and teenage son
Goal:
Share knowledge and experience in what works and what doesn't in preventing youth and gang violence.
NYTD
Goal:
Involve youth transitioning out of the foster care system in discussions about valuable data
LLL
Goal:
Help to support youth as they transition from high school to careers or postsecondary education.
ICYD
Goal:
Coordinate and align state policies and practices to support positive youth development and increase high school graduation rate.
Memphis and Shelby County
Goal:
Utilize multiple interwoven collaborations to prevent violence in Memphis and Shelby County.
Atlanta Housing Authority
Goal:
Forge partnerships that provide supportive services to customers.
Partnership for Results
Goal:
Foster positive youth development through community-wide collaboration and evidence-based programs.
NOYS
Goal:
Build partnerships that save lives, prevent injuries, and enhance safe and healthy lifestyles among all youth.
Youth National Guard AmeriCorps
Goal:
Support skill and leadership development for disadvantaged youth to assist with the transition to adulthood.
Project U-Turn
Goal:
Address Philadelphia’s dropout crisis.