ABOUT US
Our mission
We envision a future where every young person has the opportunity to lead a happy, successful life, and whole communities flourish as a result. Our mission is to empower young people and create breakthroughs with the dedicated systems that serve them.
Empowering young people
Youth Era creates solutions for communities across the country that look beyond short-term assistance for the few and toward sustainable support for the many. When Youth Era opens up a new drop-in center, saving communities hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s not just the young people or even their families who benefit. When we come together as a community, young people have a much better chance of becoming happy, successful, and contributing adult members of their communities, and everyone reaps the rewards.
We are peers
We have lived experience navigating youth-serving systems. We know what it’s like to feel alone or hopeless. We’ve been there and we’re here for you.
We empower
By uniting a diverse collective of young adults, we are empowering youth and their communities to create personal, local, and national change.
We are agents of change
We work to provide accessible support services to all young people. We focus on direct service, training, and advocacy—the building blocks for creating lasting change for young people across the country.
Stronger together
The work we do is fueled by the unmatched dedication of our staff, the young people we support, and the system partners we collaborate with who give their time and voices to empower young lives and improve our communities. Every day, our team creates positive change in a multitude of ways. Change happens when we support young people as they work to complete high school, graduate college, find jobs, when we advocate for systems change, and so much more.
