HOPE 4 Youth is excited to announce that Linda Bryant has been hired as our new Executive Director! Linda has three decades of successful experience working with youth, teens, families and adults in developing, implementing and delivering programs that have assisted thousands of Minnesotans in overcoming barriers that have worked to prevent changing their life […]
As we celebrate the New Year, we look to furthering our vision of a community where all youth feel safe, valued, and supported while reaching their full potential. And doing this by providing HOPE for youth experiencing homelessness – HOPE in the form of: Housing, Outreach, Prevention, and Education/Employment. Today, we’d like to share the […]
As the hands on the clock move closer to midnight, we need your help to reach our year end goal. A gift in any amount, allows us to continue providing pathways to end youth homelessness for youth like Amber. Amber shared, “Without HOPE 4 Youth and HOPE Place, I would not be in school and […]
HOPE Place, our supportive transitional housing program, has been changing the trajectories of the young people who have lived there. Beau was the very first young person to move into HOPE Place in December of 2016. Over the past three years he has been empowered to make many changes in his life that he’d like […]
At this year’s Gala 4 HOPE, Kayla shared her story. The entire room was brought to their feet as she left the stage. If you were unable to attend the Gala, please take a few minutes to read her story and how HOPE 4 Youth has empowered her to move forward on her journey. “My journey […]
Take a moment to look out your window. Now picture yourself without a home and having to live – to sleep – outside. Can you imagine it? Yet every day, 6,000 youth are living without a home. Tonight 6,000 youth will sleep out in the cold. These are their stories: I’ve slept on the streets. […]
At 18, Melissa didn’t have a permanent address. She and her young daughter moved between one family member’s place to another with no place to call home. Although struggling as a single parent experiencing homelessness, Melissa kept up with her studies and was on track to graduate high school. She learned about HOPE 4 Youth […]
At 19, Dennise was a single expectant mother living in an unsafe environment. She knew she needed to make a change for both her and her child when she sought help and was referred to HOPE 4 Youth. For two years, she frequented the Drop-In Center to meet her basic needs including a hot evening […]
“It was hard,” Amy answered when asked what life was like growing up. “I was raised in the foster care system.” At 20, Amy was a single mom experiencing homelessness. She learned about HOPE 4 Youth from her county caseworker. For the past year, Amy has been working with HOPE 4 Youth staff to finish […]
Did you know 13% of youth who are experiencing homelessness suffer from a substance abuse disorder? I’ve struggled with a drug addiction for a long time. It was difficult to get clean when drugs were so easy to find on the streets where I was sleeping at night. Eventually, I realized that drugs weren’t going […]
