Avenues for Youth

06/12/2026

Share with your networks, please! Avenues for Youth is currently hiring for Human Resources Manager.

A link to the job post is in the comments!

06/10/2026

🔓️ We are honored to have this dollar-for-dollar match for our spring fundraiser of $85,000* toward general operating expenses at Avenues. This level of solidarity with the Avenues mission is above and beyond. Thank you to the two inspired, anonymous community members who offered to match up to $30,000 in gifts through June.

When our community pitches in to support youth like Omarion (pictured) at Avenues, we all thrive.

"That support that [Omarion got here—it made him flourish." —Mrs. LaReina Dominick, Education and Career Specialist at Avenues, and trusted mentor to Omarion.

*To put our spring fundraising goal into perspective, $85,000 is nearly Avenues' entire annual grocery budget! We are already over ⅓ of the way there—wanna turn your $50 into $100?

Link to double your impact in the comments!

05/20/2026

What is something you wouldn't be able to live without on your first night in a new home?

Avenues is grateful to partner with Enterprise Rent-A-Car. In addition to financial support, Enterprise shows up regularly for Avenues youth through volunteer work. Thank you to the individuals who gave their time and labor to make welcome baskets last week.

Welcome baskets — laundry baskets filled with brand-new personal care items — help ease the transition into Avenues programs for youth.

05/18/2026

What are youth up to at Brooklyn Avenues lately? They're building community. It's what Avenues is about! Here are some of the ways youth got together over the past few weeks:

🟣 Youth gathered for a mid-day movie, The Equalizer.
🟣 One youth showed others how to make homemade avocado face and hair mask.
🟣 Youth made Kool-Aid pickles in their own personal jars.
🟣 Youth gathered outside to play 2-on-2 basketball.
🟣 Two of the youth grilled while two other youth prepared the sides along with stuffed jalapeno peppers for Friday's lunch. Lots of healthy conversations and laughter.

What have you been up to lately? Taking advantage of the spring weather?

05/04/2026

After 13 years of partnering with LGBTQI+ youth experiencing unstable housing and homelessness, Ryan Berg is stepping away from Avenues. We are forever grateful to Ryan for his partnership and dedication to ConneQT and Avenues. Ryan evolved and expanded the organizational structure necessary to make ConneQT a 100% viable option for youth participants. For his advocacy, the countless conversations with host homes and youth, and respect for the youth with whom he has walked alongside, he will truly be missed.

The ConneQT Host Home Program Manager position has been posted, and we are excited to spread the word far and wide.

This Program Manager position is responsible for the overall leadership and daily operations of the ConneQT program, including staff supervision, program development, and service delivery. This role ensures high-quality, affirming, and responsive support for youth while maintaining strong community partnerships and program outcomes.

Please share this post on your stories and tag a friend or acquaintance who you think would thrive in a leadership, community, and relationship-oriented role.

04/23/2026

📆 Mark your calendars! Bring your friends! ConneQT (the Avenues Host Home program) is partnering with Trans Refuge to host monthly host home info sessions at East Side Freedom Library (1105 Greenbrier, St. Paul). The first session will start on Thursday, May 7, 2026, and recur on the first Thursday of every month after.

In this moment, when trans and nonbinary people are facing escalating political attacks and attempts to erase them from public life, community care matters more than ever.

When systems fail, neighbors step in.

Join us to learn how you can be part of a community-based response rooted in relationship, dignity, and collective care.

What to expect:
🏳️‍⚧️ Learn about host homes and accompaniment work
🏳️‍🌈 Understand the needs of LGBTQ+ youth and trans refugees in our community
🏳️‍⚧️ Explore ways to get involved, with no pressure or obligation
🏳️‍🌈 Connect with others committed to showing up

Hosting is a form of mutual aid rooted in our collective liberation grounded in showing up, building trust, and sharing resources.

03/28/2026

03/23/2026

This Thursday (3/26) is Building on Dreams — Avenues' annual live fundraising event at Quincy! Tickets are still available, but starting to disappear!

Come be with your community starting at 5:00 PM! Appetizers, cash bar, GLITTER TATTOOS, AND RESTAURANT RAFFLE! Our evening will be guided by KARE-11 Sunrise anchor Jason Hackett as the emcee, social justice "convergence of musicians, activists, and community members," Brass Solidarity for a communal musical experience, as well as poet, educator, artist, respected historian, and political powerhouse, Andrea Jenkins who will share her insights and expertise on youth homelessness in our community.

03/06/2026

🚨SHARE ALERT! 🚨 Bring a hot beverage and come learn about what goes in to becoming a host for a youth in the ConneQT Host Home program.

ConneQT Home Home Info Session
Thursday, March 12
5:30–7:00 PM
East Side Freedom Library (1105 Greenbrier St., St. Paul)

Contact: [email protected] and 651-207-4926

See you there!

02/28/2026

Thank you in advance for registering for Building on Dreams, even if it happens the day before. It's going to be a joyful experience filled with some of the best people we know—including you!

January and February have been fraught as a result of ongoing ICE activity. We cannot comprehend the effects that these past few months will have on housing stability. This makes Avenues' work and mission more vital than ever.

There is no better way to resist fear than by gathering with a common goal: to reclaim our joy together and pool our collective resources to help build a foundation of lasting stability for youth and young families experiencing homelessness.

Link to register in the comments!