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About YouthBuild

YouthBuild is a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development. In YouthBuild programs, low-income young people ages 16-24 work toward their GEDs or high school diplomas, learn job skills and serve their communities by building affordable housing, and transform their own lives and roles in society. » More

$6.25 million in State and Federal Funding Granted to New Jersey YouthBuild Programs

The Attorney General of New Jersey, Anne Milgram, recently announced an investment of $6.25 million in state and federal funding to launch the New Jersey YouthBuild Initiative as a signature crime prevention program of her office.
This resulted from administrative leadership within the New Jersey State government collaborating with the State Coalition and YouthBuild USA over the course of the past year, producing the strongest breakthrough of state-level support on the crime prevention front for YouthBuild programs to date.
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Reflections on One Year of YouthBuild USA's Postsecondary Education Initiative

The Postsecondary Education (PSE) Initiative of YouthBuild USA and seven participating YouthBuild programs recently reflected on one year of Initiative work with three days of conversations regarding what has been achieved and ongoing challenges for improving pathways to postsecondary credentials for YouthBuild graduates.
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