Rich Melzer with Mike Max on WCCO Radio
March 17, 2021: YouthLink CEO Rich Melzer with Mike Max on WCCO Radio
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Dr. Heather Huseby, Executive Director of YouthLink for the past 17 years, today announced her retirement effective at the end of December 2021. YouthLink, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit providing supportive resources to teens and young adults experiencing homelessness for more than 45 years, serves nearly 2,000 young people annually. The YouthLink Board of Directors will soon…
Brighten the Holidays for Youth and Families Experiencing Homelessness
The holidays should be a time of warmth and joy, but for too many young people and families in our community, this time of year brings feelings of stress, worry, and loneliness. You can change that. YouthLink is gearing up for our busiest holiday party and Santa Shop yet, happening Thursday December 18, and we…
New Research Shows Drop-In Centers Help Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Minneapolis, MN, March 28, 2020. New findings from an interdisciplinary team of researchers funded by The Kresge Foundation shows that young people experiencing homelessness benefit from services provided by drop-in centers staffed with case managers, a key resource for such youth supported by taxpayers, foundations, and individual donors. These findings were presented today at the…
Thank You For Making the 2016 Night of Hope a Success!
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] On September 25th, 122 passionate and determined business leaders who want to make a difference spent the night outside at YouthLink’s 3rd Annual Night of Hope: Executive Sleep Out and raised over $115,000 for YouthLink’s programs and services. Leaders participated in housing and shelter tours,…
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Mishka Vertin and Mike Jurasits, founders of Mile in My Shoes (MiMS), know first-hand about the joy of helping people become comfortable, confident runners. “Before we moved to the Twin Cities, we ran with a program in New York City that paired an experienced runner with a person staying in a shelter who had likely…
