Mission

The mission of the Campaign for Youth is to focus attention on the needs of young people who are out of work, out of school and out of the mainstream. Campaign for Youth advocates for the expansion of those opportunities and supports that prepare youth for their future roles as workers, parents, civic leaders and engaged members of caring communities

We are united in our belief that youth should have the opportunity for a safe and healthy passage to adulthood, equipped with the skills they need to work, raise a family and participate as a responsible member of their community.

We are committed to elevating awareness of the challenges facing young people; advancing policy and program solutions that work to reconnect and expand opportunities for them, and creating a constituency for making solutions happen.


Our immediate goals:

• Creating a common message that transcends and unites organizations and serves as a “call to action” for a broad constituency on behalf of vulnerable youth.

• Advocating for an investment strategy that greatly expands the system of innovative pathways to education and labor market success for out-of-school and vulnerable youth

• Bringing attention to the legislative, policy, and system barriers that hamper the delivery of comprehensive transition support for youth in challenging situations as well as opportunity for innovation. 

• Advocating for the expansion of opportunities for Work Experience, Career Exposure, and Community Service Opportunities for youth in communities with high level of economic distress.

• Elevating the role of youth in policy making and governance.

• Impacting the education reform agenda to inspire and retain high school youth through graduation.

• Creating a broad-based constituency for action.

Campaign for Youth believes that the creation of a fair and effective opportunity system for low-income youth requires creative, united, determined effort by a broad alliance of youth, college students, youth workers, advocates, religious groups, state and local leaders, business leaders, labor leaders, and community groups. The Campaign for Youth seeks to forge that alliance.