The Youth Coordinating Board's OUTREACH TEAM does amazing work every day. However, since a part of their work is to integrate themselves seamlessly into communities, it's often hard to spot the great work they do. With that said, it's always super nice when someone is willing to highlight their work. Big thanks to THE MINNESOTA DAILY for running a story on our Cedar-Riverside team. Find MN Daily's story and learn more about the Cedar-Riverside Outreach Team BY CLICKING HERE. 

And if you see the Outreach Team in their yellow You^th Are Here shirts please say hi! 

The YCB believes that a data is an important ingredient when thinking about program improvement. That's why we bring partners in to discuss their program data at our M3 Huddle. However, leveraging data to improve programs doesn't end at our M3 Huddle as it's a continuous project. We had a wonderful day meeting each other, sharing stories & experiences, eating a delicious lunch, and digging into our data. 

The Minneapolis Afterschool Network highlights different youth workers within our community and today we introduce you to Lily Thiboutot of Minneapolis Community Education. Her thoughtfulness & care shine through in this video. Sanford Middle School is lucky to have someone like her at their school. We thank Lily for making time & sharing her story with us! 

The work that the Minneapolis Youth Congress (MYC) does makes us extremely proud. We want to make sure the work that they do is captured & highlighted so we've redesigned the MYC page to help us do that.

• We've streamlined the page to make it easier to navigate and find what you are looking for. 
• We've put the most relevant updates up front. Now you can quickly catch up on MYC news even if you're just dropping by. 
• We've built out a JOIN MYC PAGE so people can better understand our recruitment process & timeline. 
• We now have a MYC ARCHIVE PAGE so people can review the work MYC has previously done. 

Thanks to all those that have supported MYC over all these years! We're very excited about 2020! 

The Youth Investment Task Force — a coalition of the public, private, and civic sectors — held their initial meeting. Their aim is to better fund out of school time programming. The Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board and the Minneapolis Youth Congress both were a part of this meeting. We hope to develop a strong plan that will serve youth & families in our city. 

Thanks to MAYOR JACOB FREY'S OFFICE for providing these photos. 

The YOUTH MASTER PLAN PAGE has been updated and a navigation button has been added to the top of the website. You can now download PDF versions of the Executive Summary and Part 1 of the Youth Master Plan: Identifying The Issues. The Youth Master Plan page will continuously be improved and updated as new developments occur. We thank everyone that has helped with the Youth Master Plan in 2019 and we look forward to completing the report in 2020. 

For now, head over to the YOUTH MASTER PLAN PAGE to get a more in-depth look. Currently, pages for the 6 priorities are being built so that readers can gain an understanding without having to read the entire report. 

DOWNLOAD THE YOUTH MASTER PLAN & EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Minneapolis Youth Congress (MYC) has been one of the most important youth organizations for handful of years. They help with all sorts of initiatives around the city and we recently welcomed the class of 2019-20 with a special celebration. We invited a handful of special guests to speak about the importance of having a youth voice & presence in the community, welcomed family members to celebrate, and brought together youth supporters to fill City Hall with love. You'll find a full photo gallery of the 2019-20 Oath of Office celebration to the left.