The new Youth Opportunity Center at YouthLink has received the Best in Real Estate Award for Community Impact – Interior Renovation from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal. YouthLink moved into its newly renovated quarters in December of 2010. The renovation was partially funded by Heading Home Hennepin, a program of the city of Minneapolis and ...Read More →

YouthLink joins in an innovative giving program, Big Give, with Details Salon in St. Paul.

Nicollet Square Open House May 5th, 3:00-5:00.

Staff prepare to sport their post-secondary apparel at staff college day.

YouthLink and TYSN will continue to work together to provide services targeted to transgender identified youth.

Thursday, March 03, 2011 the Youth Opportunity Center @ YouthLink hosted a well attended and high energy open house.  Attendees received information about the Youth Opportunity Center (YOC) partners, the four centers for excellence, and the history of both YouthLink and the YOC.  Guests were invited to tour the site on their own or participate ...Read More →

The garden-variety annual report is typically chock full of corporate speak, jargon and hard-to-understand business language. Fortunately, you won’t find any of those things in YouthLink’s 2009 Report the Community.

For many homeless youth, the biggest challenge is staying on track with studies and keeping a job while living on the streets. Keeping up grades and making it to work each day can be tough when you’re hopping from couch to couch each night. But statistically, we know staying in school and keeping a job are key ingredients to breaking the cycle of poverty and chronic, long-term homelessness.

As thousands of kids across Minnesota prepare for the first day of school next week, YouthLink is preparing to host its own Back to School Kick Off featuring a number of events and festivities including an evening with Freedom Writer, Darrius Garrett on Wed., Aug. 25.

Wow. Best word to describe our end of tournament run. Our team played hard throughout the tournament. On Saturday night, the Men’s team had a heart-breaking loss to the eventual champions of the tournament-Russia. The match itself was something to write home about. Up Top was losing for the majority of the short 14 minutes played in a game. With 2 minutes to go, the team was down 6-4 in favor of Russia.