Pathfinders
MIssion
Empowering Youth. Changing Lives.
Aligned Work
Pathfinders’ Youth Shelter provides 24/7/365 safe shelter and supportive services that ensure youth ages 11-17 avoid unsheltered homelessness while supporting the family systems connected to them. By offering shelter to youth and comprehensive supportive services to both teens and their families, they help prevent adolescent housing crises, runaway episodes, and family conflict from becoming unsheltered or prolonged homelessness. These coordinated shelter and wraparound services strengthen longer-term housing stability and prevent teens from carrying the long-term negative effects of unsheltered homelessness into adulthood. (Safe and Stable Homes)
Pathfinders utilize flexible financial assistance to provide rapid, targeted funding for core rent, utility, and security deposit expenses that enable young adults aged 17-25 and their families to avoid or quickly exit homelessness in quality master-leased units that match their household needs. Financial assistance will be complemented by housing navigation through dedicated Housing Specialists who expand low-barrier housing options and prevent housing loss for youth despite limited rental histories or other challenges. (Safe and Stable Homes)
Pathfinders’ on-site Drop-In Center provides low-barrier crisis mental health interventions for homeless youth and serves as a vital access point for youth who face major barriers to accessing traditional systems of care. (Mental Health Improvement Fund)