REBUILDING MASSACHUSETTS ONE YOUTH AT A TIME

about the coalition

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OUR MISSION

The Massachusetts YouthBuild Coalition fosters leadership, advancement, and positive community impacts for our members in the Commonwealth and surrounding states while promoting collaboration, expertise, and sustainability for pre-apprenticeship workforce development programs for opportunity youth.

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THE YOUTHBUILD PROGRAM MODEL

The five core components of the YouthBuild model - Leadership Development, Supportive Services, Education, Construction and other Career Pathways, and Alumni Services -  prepare our students to enter the workforce and/or attend post-secondary institutions after graduation.

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SERVING THE COMMONWEALTH

We are an organization of twelve YouthBuild programs serving communities with the most disconnected youth in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Portland, ME. Are we in your community?

outcomes FROM ACROSS THE COALITION

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Illustration of a house with a wrench and screwdriver crossing, and the number 1,263 below, inside a hexagon outline.
Infographic with a hexagonal border showing the number of students: 4,244, a student icon, and a percentage 36.2%.
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Statistics infographic showing 3,376 graduates with a 79.5% percentage, featuring a graduation cap and diploma icon.
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WHAT MAKES YOUTHBUILD DIFFERENT?

YouthBuild gives young people between the ages of 16 and 24 the chance to turn their lives around. Programs offer a unique curriculum, that combines academic instruction with workforce development training, in which students spend time in the classroom working toward their High school equivalency or diploma and on a job site building or renovating affordable housing in their communities. It allows students to develop important academic and job skills, and at the same time, revitalize surrounding low-income areas. Ultimately, the aim of YouthBuild is not to change the young people it serves, it is to give them the tools to change their own lives. We firmly believe that by empowering our students, true community change can be accomplished. 

Working to enhance the services of their twelve member programs, the Massachusetts YouthBuild Coalition provides resources in the following areas: peer support and evaluation, technical assistance, media outreach, coordination of statewide events, and applications for funding. By assisting our programs in these areas, we're able to lighten some of their workload and allow them to focus more of their time and energy on serving our youth. 

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Contact Us

Want to learn more information? Completed the contact form or contact our Executive Director, Terry Moran at (508) 951-0802 or email him at tmoran@massyouthbuild.org.