Bringing It Together: Uniting Youth Organizing, Development and Services for Long-Term Sustainability

The Movement Strategy Center seeks to create a movement ecosystem of deeply connected groups that share values and rely on each other to respond to the needs of impacted communities, advance policy solutions, and transform the lives of people on the frontlines of change.

Bringing It Together: Uniting Youth Organizing, Development and Services for Long-Term Sustainability, reveals how youth organizing groups across the country are incorporating innovative approaches to support the holistic – emotional, physical, spiritual and political – development of their members. This report profiles six groups that are using a wide range of support strategies, depending on history and context. These new approaches are creating healthy lives in tandem with community change, and leading to a more sustainable social justice movement. The report includes tools, case studies, and recommendations for organizing groups supporting young people's holistic needs.