Youth Development
As a community we utilize all available resources in a effort to ensure youth who are more likely to experience negative life outcomes, develop to their fullest potential through educational excellence and community asset building.
Strategic Objectives:
- Promote healthy youth and family initiatives to address positive outcomes for youth, education achievement, social emotional mental health and resource coordination.
- Ensure youth are connected to positive, caring and reliable adults.
- Increase opportunity, exposure, support, resources and coordination for non-traditional youth or those youth having difficulties at home, in school and in the community.
Key Projects:
- Support Community Coalition Summer Initiatives.
- In partnership with Champaign County Mental Health Board and Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club. Support resources for non-traditional youth to increase constructive, organized activities for community youth. Emphasis placed on academic enrichment, recreational activities, arts exploration and leadership skill building.
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- Increase employment and workforce development opportunities for all youth including those in school, high risk, and income eligible. Continue to support school programs-Youth Employment Services (YES) (Champaign), Care for You, Summer Youth Employment Program (Urbana).
- Identify and support joint trainings that encourages participation from law enforcement, community organizations and community members.
- Support best practice community engagement activities led by law-enforcement.
- Identify best practice programs for identified younger youth in need.
- Create more youth-led conversations with youth.
- Increase supports to youth involved incidents of community violence.