Starting and Managing a Youth Program

NCFY: Welcome to Youth Speak Out, a podcast series from the Family and Youth Services Bureau. Gina Odom is a Youth Advocate for runaway and homeless youth issues in Garfield County, Colorado. She speaks at statewide meetings, appeared in televised PSAs and recently attended the 2012 Pathways to Adulthood Conference in New Orleans.
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is accepting applications from programs that address the basic needs of individuals and families, including food, shelter and social services.
September is National Disaster Preparedness Month—a time to get ready for disasters.
September is National Disaster Preparedness Month—a time to get ready for disasters.
Sixteen-year-old “Jessica” of Brainerd, MN, had already been kicked out of her mother’s house and her boyfriend’s mother’s house when she got to the host home program run by Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota, which places youth who need emergency shelter with local families.
September is National Disaster Preparedness Month—a time to get ready for disasters.
Like most youth workers, the staff at Common Ground crisis center in Royal Oak, MI, knew that young people were spending more and more time online. Even so, Common Ground staff have been surprised by the response to their one-on-one live chat crisis line.
You’re looking for a new location. Maybe you’ve outgrown the old space, or maybe you’re starting something fresh. Real estate prices are too high. Conventional locations aren’t big enough, or just don’t suit your needs. Have you considered renovating a historical building?
Lots of people, especially those starting up a new youth program, ask us how to find funding. So we're re-posting some advice we shared a few years ago. Before youth-serving organizations apply for funding, they have to pinpoint likely donors. How to do that with no fund raising staff and barely enough time to get your to-do list done each day?
We first published this post over a year ago, and we still think it contains great advice for youth-serving organizations. So we're re-posting it for your mid-August reading pleasure. (Cyndi Court moved to the Special Olympics last fall.)
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