WHO WE ARE
Mission and Vision
The strategy begins with a north star mission for Connecticut: to get 60,000 at-risk and disconnected youth back on track by 2035.
The Statewide Crisis
The most recent data is alarming: 119,000 or one in five Connecticut 14-26-year-olds are at-risk or disconnected. Moreover, at-risk and disconnected young people are present in every single Connecticut town, not just the urban centers, demonstrating the pervasiveness of this issue and mounting need for all Connecticut stakeholders to act.
Our History
Each of us has been focused on this population for many years—in some cases, over 50 years. The words disengaged and disconnected are not a fad for us. We each have worked on our own and as a group with nationally known experts on improving our practices and measuring our impact. Over time, we’ve created and refined our work into evidence-supported practices which result, year after year, in significant change in thousands of lives.
Learn more about our state’s disconnected and disengaged young people: Read this Young People First plan summary, which includes statistics about the youth we’re working to support and where our organization are referred to as leaders in the field.
