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School Youth Advocates are out in the community and in area schools with programs to help teach kids the skills they will need to create a community where violence is not tolerated. Advocates work to help teens and pre-teens understand and develop healthy relationships with the people they date, their friends and peers, and their family members.

For middle and high school students, programming includes individual support and educational groups that meet for 12 to 15 weeks each year. Classroom presentations on dating violence, safe social media use, healthy relationship-building, and many other initiatives support the effort to change the trajectory of relationship abuse.

Children K-6 receive classroom sessions on bullying, safety, how to be a good friend, and other topics.

Provides violence prevention, intervention, support, outreach services, and leadership opportunities for youth in residential and community settings. Provides a variety of services to youth of all genders who have experienced relationship violence, sexual assault or exploitation, stalking, or homelessness. Programs include:

Movement for Violence Prevention (MVP): Leadership development activities to assist youth-led community engagement, skill enhancement, peer connections, and tools for change to prevent youth violence.

Inspiring Youth: A year-long, intensive, community-based program for youth ages 10 - 17 and their families who have been impacted by violence. Youth workers provide comprehensive and culturally responsive mentorship, support, and access to services, activities, and leadership opportunities.

Youth Site-Based and Community-Based Housing: Transitional housing for youth and young adults who are victims of violence and exploitation, including sex trafficking. Safety planning and support are provided.

Voices in Prevention (VIP): A 6-week violence prevention curriculum serving middle and high school students. Curriculum might also include support groups, one-on-one sessions, peer mediation, and service learning.

Youth Safety Plans: Specialized safety plans for youth

NorthStar Youth Outreach Center: A drop-in center for homeless youth offering advocacy, safety planning, and connections to additional community resources. The center also offers:

- Assistance with housing

- Assistance with career and education planning

- Computer lab

- Counseling

- Creative art spaces

- Food and snacks

- Laundry access

- Supplies and clothing

Equips youth and young adults with the knowledge, skills, and resources to make healthy decisions, address the root causes of harmful behavior, and resolve conflicts peacefully. It also teaches them to recognize the warning signs of domestic and intimate partner violence while building healthy coping skills and meaningful relationships.

Provides violence prevention, intervention, support, outreach services, and leadership opportunities for youth in residential and community settings. Provides a variety of services to youth of all genders who have experienced relationship violence, sexual assault or exploitation, stalking, or homelessness. Programs include:

Movement for Violence Prevention (MVP): Leadership development activities to assist youth-led community engagement, skill enhancement, peer connections, and tools for change to prevent youth violence.

Inspiring Youth: A year-long, intensive, community-based program for youth ages 10 - 17 and their families who have been impacted by violence. Youth workers provide comprehensive and culturally responsive mentorship, support, and access to services, activities, and leadership opportunities.

Youth Site-Based and Community-Based Housing: Transitional housing for youth and young adults who are victims of violence and exploitation, including sex trafficking. Safety planning and support are provided.

Voices in Prevention (VIP): A 6-week violence prevention curriculum serving middle and high school students. Curriculum might also include support groups, one-on-one sessions, peer mediation, and service learning.

Youth Safety Plans: Specialized safety plans for youth

NorthStar Youth Outreach Center: A drop-in center for homeless youth offering advocacy, safety planning, and connections to additional community resources. The center also offers:

- Assistance with housing

- Assistance with career and education planning

- Computer lab

- Counseling

- Creative art spaces

- Food and snacks

- Laundry access

- Supplies and clothing

Community-based prevention and intervention activities regarding violence, crime, and drug abuse. Chapter memberships available for adult men and women.

Group mentorship for male students providing life training, leadership, and guidance into manhood creating a better alternative other than gangs and cliques.

- Future Bound Youth: Works with youth ages 6 - 18 during and after school with tutoring, intergenerational communication, promotion of good decision-making, health and wellness, and cultural lessons - Mentoring Program: Matches volunteers/mentors from the University of Minnesota's Cambodian Student Association with youth, focusing on building leadership skills, improving school performance, and promoting higher education

- Youth Intervention Project: Aimed at high-risk youth to provide general assistance, improve intergenerational understanding, build social skills, and reduce gang violence

Provides weekly bilingual school-based, after school programming and cultural support groups at area elementary schools throughout the school year, and a summer camp, for Latino children, to assist them in developing their assets, and positive attitudes and behaviors in the areas of self, family, and community.

​- Build self-esteem

- Establish nurturing relationships with program staff, parents, volunteers, and teachers

- Explore cultural heritage

- Maintain or improve Spanish language skills

- Positive conflict resolution and peacemaking support groups

- Violence prevention and intervention support groups