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Helping All Youth Thrive
All youth deserve to be safe and to thrive. Our Youth Thriving initiative develops and uplifts cradle-to-career investments to help make this promise a reality.
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Our Youth Thriving initiative focuses on youth safety and opportunity using multidisciplinary, cradle-to-career investments. By knitting together issues that range from housing, child care, and family supports to educational equity, afterschool programming, and apprenticeships, we center policy frameworks and coalitions that dismantle silos and advance child wellbeing holistically.
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What is the Futures Agenda?
The Futures Agenda is a policy agenda that touches every aspect of a young person’s life — from cradle to professional success. It envisions a future where every child and family has the opportunity to flourish.
Why do we need this Futures Agenda?
Kids today face unprecedented challenges. COVID-19 disrupted lives worldwide, leaving youth to navigate shuttered schools, social isolation, and a lack of basic needs like food, shelter, and family income. Mental health has become a crisis for young people. And while they weather these issues, concerns around crime have created another danger — the resurgence of “tough on crime” rhetoric that may cause further criminalization of our most vulnerable communities.
We need a policy agenda that addresses these challenges head-on and fully champions young people — one that’s big enough, bold enough, and comprehensive enough to give youth and families what they need to thrive. The Futures Agenda is designed to be this roadmap.
Who are we?
We are a broad range of youth, youth advocates, educators, caregivers, and organizations representing education, public health, housing, racial equity, economic equity, climate, immigration, and other issue areas all dedicated to the core idea that all children deserve to thrive — and that only together can we make this safer, more promising, and more equitable tomorrow possible.
How can you change the future?
The Futures Agenda is a living document — and we want you to help shape these policies. Your voice matters as we build, refine, and increase support for these policies while ensuring youth have the tools to lead this advocacy.
Together, we can reshape the narrative, dismantle hollow rhetoric, and construct a future where opportunity is limitless. Be the change that the next generation deserves. Together, we’ll forge a path toward a future where every young person’s potential is fully realized.
The future is now! Visit our resource hub to learn how to create it.