New Pathways for Youth Inc.

New Pathways for Youth envisions a future where all youth achieve their potential.

New Pathways for Youth's focus on long term academic, social and health outcomes breaks the cycle of poverty and violence and ultimately transforms the community by:
• Decreasing the likelihood of future juvenile crime (average cost per juvenile in system
is $87,965 per year)
• Improving health outcomes, including reductions in teen pregnancy, reduced/delayed
use of alcohol and illicit drugs
• Developing goal-oriented and decision making skills, including a positive view of the
future - reducing needs for more costly social services and counseling
• Fostering social and relationship skills, including positive peer groups and trust in a
caring adult
• Increasing school attendance and academic performance, leading to increased
graduation rates, post-secondary success and higher lifetime earnings (average costs
to taxpayers over the course of a dropout's life is $292,000)
• Improving parenting skills, stopping the cycle of drugs and violence in the home and
building healthy families for the future
• Decreasing neighborhood crime, reducing societal costs of future adult crimes

New Pathways for Youth facilitates transformative relationships between youth ages 12 – 21 and adult mentors, to help these youth reach their greatest possible potential.

Our transformative mentoring services are comprehensive and focus on the youth, the youth's family, and the mentor:

• One-to-one mentoring with a trained adult who understands the specific challenges high risk youth face; building trust in a caring adult who serves as a guide for discerning right from wrong.
• One-to-one mentoring happens within community groups for both individual and community transformation.
• Case management, providing a tailored plan for every youth to provide the most effective support they need to realize their full human potential while connecting youth and families to critical resources to provide essential stability.
• Life skill development workshops, developing goal-setting, decision-making and other social skills that are directly linked to academic and life success
• Enrichment activities, expanding learning through interactive projects and real life experiences
• Service learning projects that meet the needs of the community, fostering civic responsibility and building academic resumes for post-secondary success
• Intensive retreats, creating breakthroughs in patterns of destructive thinking and opening possibilities to new actions for a brighter future
• College application and scholarship support, building competitive academic resumes to make college dreams a reality
• Family and parenting programs, breaking the cycle of violence in the community

At New Pathways for Youth, we’re awakening the full human potential to bring about individual and community transformation.

In the communities we serve, youth experience poverty and four times the adversity of their peers. Beyond material insecurities, these challenges interrupt a youth’s sense of their potential, disconnecting them from what's true: that each of us has immeasurable, inherent value - and the future holds unlimited possibilities. New Pathways reconnects our youth to that truth. Through a holistic development program and 1:1 mentoring within community groups, we guide our youth as they discover renewed outlooks on life and realize unwritten possibilities for their futures.

We are set apart by our research-based, holistic approach and the change it enables our youth to create in their lives and communities. Our program isn’t limited to transforming the world around us, but is equally focused on transforming the heart, mind, and soul. When reconnected to the truth of unlimited possibilities, our youth are unstoppable, growing into their full human potential.

When youth are provided a safe, nurturing environment and are tended to with care, their capacity for growth is powerful. Every youth receives individualized action planning, supporting them as they meet their short and long-term goals, along with connections to critical resources for personal well-being, ongoing development, and daily necessities that support the youth’s entire family, ranging from housing assistance to food security to emergency relief, providing essential stability. This is complemented by one-on-one support from an adult mentor within community groups in order to build stable, nurturing, life-changing relationships defined by mutual growth.

The New Pathways for Youth program is research-based and proven to generate remarkable outcomes for the youth we serve; from greater high school graduation rates, to increased personal wellness and prevention of harmful behaviors. Nobody goes it alone. Every youth takes root in and is supported by the entire New Pathways community, discovering healthier, more conscious ways of thinking and taking transformative steps together.

Our program ripens the soil for transformation that awakens the full human potential, preparing youth to take on their futures with true readiness and resilience. The future is not defined by the past; instead of taking on a predetermined fate, our youth write their own story. New Pathways nurtures the seed, but the youth is the one who blossoms.

When our youth experience the support and personal development that our program offers, they feel unstoppable - and that spirit extends beyond the self to impact their family, community, and the world around them.

For nearly three decades, New Pathways for Youth has positively impacted the lives of more than 5,500 at-risk youth, with dramatic and demonstrable success.

New Pathways for Youth is committed to ensuring that each youth in our program graduates our program solidly established in their community through college and career readiness, using their mentoring experience to break the cycle of violence and poverty in their life.