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Celebrating Thanksgiving as a chosen family is one of our most cherished traditions here at YouthBuild!  We celebrate Thanksgiving a day early every year with a Thanksgiving lunch - prepared and served by staff - followed by a party and games. In addition to staff and students (and students' children), we often have great volunteers in [...]

We love graduation ceremonies of every size - large, small, and anywhere in between. At YouthBuild, our focus on students as individuals means that each student's completion is a milestone for our school.  Each diploma-accepting smile is its own special event. On Tuesday, November 22 we celebrated forty times as the Fall School cohort of the Class of [...]

At YouthBuild, we know that transformation comes from small gestures, adding up over time.  For example, at YouthBuild: Each day our students come to school, they build new habits and skills for long-term success. A hug - or even just a well-timed high five - can turn a bad day around. One field trip can change a young person's [...]

Last week, YouthBuild Philly’s Young Professionals and Young Friends groups collaborated to host “Conversations Over Coffee" as part of Young Involved Philadelphia’s week of State of Young Philly programming. At this event, YouthBuild Philly students and alumni discussed the issues facing young people in Philadelphia, including: youth homelessness and access to resources violence community change and mentoring [...]

Interested in volunteering at YouthBuild? Let us know! What made you decide to volunteer at YouthBuild? After hearing about YouthBuild from my good friend Marty Brigham and attending one of the graduations a few years ago, I was hoping to be able to get involved with this program knowing it’s accomplishments helping students who are trying [...]

The cloudless sky on Monday was perfect for our latest field trip! Two YouthBuild students in the GreenBuild track - and one GreenBuild alum currently working in solar energy - visited the Saint-Gobain North American headquarters in Malvern, PA.  YouthBuild students attended the ribbon-cutting for the new headquarters last fall, and since then the building has achieved [...]