The Link’s three youth program areas support The Link’s mission of connecting youth to their inner strength and linking them to community resources to build life skills, provide stability, and to support their goals.
The Link provides multi-faceted permanent supportive housing programs, which combine housing, individualized case management, school enrollment or GED completion, employment support and connections to local businesses, healthcare support, and independent living coaching to homeless youth and young adults.
According research by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, youth who are incarcerated are twice as likely to drop out of school and three times as likely to be found guilty in court. The Link runs two programs, each providing positive alternatives to detention for youth in Hennepin County. By offering safe and structured environments, The Link works to minimize risk for youth and deter future offenses.
According to The Wilder Foundation, individualized attention, intensive school interventions, and parental involvement improve school attendance for truant youth; these are the platform of The Link’s Project Potential program.
