YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES

YDI’s mission is to help disadvantaged adolescent youth make pathways out of poverty by engaging them in evidence-based life skills training after school in which they develop The EDGE: 1) Establish individualized career plans 2) Develop critical life skills 3) Gain essential real-world employment and relationship-building opportunities and 4) Explore college/post-secondary training options.

Ready for Life Inc

Ready for Life provides support, resources and guidance former foster care youth need to successfully transition to adulthood.

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Apex Professional Services Inc

A private, non-profit public charity dedicated to improving the quality of life for abused, abandoned, and neglected infants, children, adolescents and adults.

Young Lives Redeemed

Young Lives Redeemed takes transitional-age emancipated foster youth from homelessness to stability and self-sufficiency through engagement in our Wellness Program, which includes connection to trauma-informed mental healthcare, substance abuse treatment, sustainable housing, secondary and post-secondary education, vocational programs, job training and employment.

• Foster Care

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Foster Progress

Empowering Illinois youth from foster care to obtain a college degree and transition into adulthood successfully.

• Adult, Child Matching Programs

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New Pathways for Youth Inc.

Transforming the lives of youth by providing the support, stability, and skills they need to flourish Our Mission: Transforming the lives of youth by providing the support, stability, and skills they need to flourish in the community and in their families.

• Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose

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Fostered Foundation Inc

Aims to enhance the lives of America’s most vulnerable children: those in foster care or any underprivileged community in America today.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Become a Foster Parent Foster Parenting a child in need is a vital link in stopping child abuse.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

Transforming the quality of life for underserved andatrisk populations.