About Youth Passageways
The mission of YPW is to help regenerate healthy passageways into mature adulthood for today’s youth.
Youth Passageways is first and foremost a prayer and a dream that ALL youth are supported, loved, and nourished on their path to adulthood, able to bring forth their unique gifts and a sense of belonging as part of healthy, healing, self-determining communities.
Youth Passageways
Within Youth Passageways, this looks like a multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-gender, and intergenerational network of partners working to support young people in becoming healthy adults.
The organization’s more than 170 partners are carrying some form of this vision— dismantling systems that hurt our young people, and rebuilding and co-creating culture one young person, one family, one community at a time.
Youth Passageways centers the voices and emergent needs of partners who are directly addressing ongoing injustices like youth incarceration and institutionalization, violence and discrimination, wealth inequality, colonialism, ecological devastation, and more.
YPW has learned that decolonization, reparations, cultural reclamation, and reconciliation are essential to our collective work, and actively listen for how to further these aims.
YPW supports their diverse partnerships through…
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To grow the network’s capacity to nurture youth on the path to adulthood.
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To communities and practices to meet their unique needs.
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Where people can learn together and build relationships across differences.