BROWN COUNTY YOUTH ACTION BOARD

Mission Statement

The Brown County Housing Coalition, Brown County Youth Action Board, and community partners will collaborate and partner to develop an integrated system to end youth homelessness and housing instability and ensure wrap-around support for youth to thrive.

Vision Statement

Brown County youth and young adults will collaborate with system partners to provide:

  • Individualized wrap-around supports to create a mentally and physically healthy environment for growing and learning, with partners who are culturally competent to serve youth who are LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, pregnant, parenting, fleeing domestic violence, and fleeing human trafficking.
  • A variety of housing options that meet the needs of youth, with youth-chosen services and pathways.
  • Mental health, reproductive and preventive health care, and addiction services
  • Changes to laws and policies that are standing in the way of youth accessing and receiving the services they want and need.

Goal 1: Stable housing, including a safe and reliable place to call home.

Goal 2: Permanent connections, including ongoing attachments to families, communities, schools, and other positive social networks.

Goal 3: Education/employment, including high performance in and completion of education and training activities, especially for younger youth, and starting and maintaining adequate and stable employment, particular for older

Goal 4: Social-emotional well-being, including development of key competencies, attitudes, and behaviors that equip a young person to succeed across multiple domains of daily life, including school, work, relationships, and community.

“When I joined the Youth Action Board, the main thing that I was looking for is a place where I could feel like I could openly talk about what I was going through and how I could help fix it, so that things could be easier for someone else who might be going through the same thing. Brown County Youth Action Board is about bringing together youth in foster care and homeless, pregnant, parenting youth and young adults so we can do something to fix our community so that young people in these situations are more prepared and have a better success rate AT LIFE. Our Youth Action Board focused on mental health, wraparound care, healthcare, and allowing youth and young adults to be more independent and receive the care we need if we do not have family to take care of us. I think it was easier for us to talk about all of these things, so we felt like we were not alone, and we challenged ourselves to NOT normalize being homeless.”

BCYAB Coordinated Community Plan

The Brown County Housing Coalition, Brown County Youth Action Board, and community partners will collaborate and partner to develop an integrated system to end youth homelessness and housing instability and ensure wrap-around support for youth to thrive.

  1. Individualized wrap-around supports to create a mentally and physically healthy environment for growing and learning.
  2. A variety of housing options that meet the needs of youth, with youth-led services and pathways.
  3. Mental health, health care, and addiction services.
Meetings are at House of Hope Green Bay
every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 5-6PM.