A new foundation for youth ready to rebuild their future.
We provide comprehensive wraparound support — mentorship, advocacy, family restoration, and reentry services — that moves at-risk youth from crisis and instability toward permanency, education, employment, and healthy adulthood.
Project 180
Our signature youth reentry & reintegration program.
Too many youth face the hardest transitions alone.
Youth involved with child welfare, juvenile justice, and behavioral health systems often navigate placement instability, family disruption, and untreated needs — all at once.
40–70%
Juvenile recidivism rates within years of release without structured support.
Multiple
Placement disruptions increase behavioral challenges and educational delays.
High
Rates of untreated anxiety, depression, and trauma among system-involved youth.
Lower
Graduation rates and chronic absenteeism for foster and justice-involved youth.
Nine integrated services, one wraparound model.
Rather than solving a single problem, we address the many barriers youth face at the same time.
Client Intake & Transition Services
Transportation, intake coordination, placement transition support, and initial stabilization so youth start strong.
Target: 90% successful placement transitions
Service Planning & Care Coordination
We connect DCS, behavioral health, schools, medical and placement providers into one coordinated plan.
Target: 90% appointment compliance
Youth Mentorship Services
Individual mentoring, goal setting, accountability coaching, and positive role modeling for every youth.
Target: 70% behavioral improvement
Advocacy Services
We help youth navigate child welfare, education, behavioral health, and court systems so needs are met.
Target: Improved placement stability
Educational Advocacy & Support
Enrollment help, attendance monitoring, IEP advocacy, credit recovery, tutoring, and GED preparation.
Target: 75% attendance compliance
Life Skills Development
Budgeting, financial literacy, cooking, communication, and independent living skills for adulthood.
Target: 80% life skills completion
Family Support & Reunification
Family mediation, parenting support, communication training, family team meetings, and safety planning.
Target: 80% family engagement
Behavioral Health Coordination
Coordination of therapy, psychiatry, medication management, substance treatment, and crisis intervention.
Target: 90% behavioral health engagement
Employment Readiness
Career exploration, resume development, interview prep, employment referrals, and job retention coaching.
Target: 70% employment participation
The cost of doing nothing is measured in lives.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of youth are placed in the care of the courts and child welfare systems. Without coordinated, wraparound support, the outcomes are sobering.
328,947
children in U.S. foster care
AFCARS FY2024
Up to 80%
of incarcerated youth are rearrested within 3 years
without structured reentry support
~50%
of foster youth graduate high school
vs. 95% of their peers
22–30%
of youth aging out become homeless
rising to 31–46% by age 26
2 in 3
justice-involved youth have a mental health disorder
65–70% diagnosable
15,379
youth aged out of foster care with no permanent family
AFCARS FY2024
Without support
The typical trajectory
- Placement instability & repeated disruptions
- School disengagement and dropout
- Untreated mental health & substance use needs
- Higher recidivism and re-incarceration
- Homelessness after aging out
- Long-term dependence on public systems
With Nufoundation
The Nufoundation outcome
- 80% placement stability
- 75% school attendance compliance
- 90% behavioral health engagement
- 65% reduction in recidivism
- Strengthened family connections & permanency
- Employment readiness and independent living
Sources: U.S. Children's Bureau AFCARS FY2024; OJJDP; Sentencing Project; National Foster Youth Institute. Figures reflect national research ranges.
Project 180: Youth Reentry & Reintegration
A four-phase program guiding youth returning from detention and correctional placements — from pre-release planning to long-term stabilization in their community.
Expected Outcomes
80% placement stability
75% school attendance
70% fewer behavioral incidents
65% reduction in recidivism
90% behavioral health engagement
85% goal completion
Phase 1: Pre-Release Planning
Phase 2: Immediate Transition
Phase 3: Community Reintegration
Phase 4: Long-Term Stabilization
Outcomes we hold ourselves accountable to.
We track youth and organizational outcomes year over year — because real change is measurable.
100+
Youth served annually
85%
Service completion rate
80%
Placement stability
65%
Reduction in recidivism
90%
Behavioral health engagement
75%
Educational compliance
One integrated model, built around the whole young person.
We combine evidence-based practices, strong community partnerships, individualized service planning, and youth-centered mentoring into a single wraparound model.
Partner with us — deliver our services under your license.
Established medical providers, behavioral health agencies, placement providers, and community organizations can outsource Nufoundation Youth Services to their own clients — operating under your existing licenses and contracts. You keep the relationship; we deliver the wraparound care.
Deliver under your license
We provide the direct youth services; your organization retains the client relationship, license, and contract.
Expand your service capacity
Add mentorship, care coordination, reentry, and advocacy without hiring and training new internal teams.
Serve more clients, faster
Turnkey wraparound support you can offer immediately to the youth and families already on your caseload.
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Whether you're a caseworker, family member, school, or court partner — share a few details and our care coordination team will follow up promptly.
Call us
(623) 252-2821
Email us
info@nufoundationyouth.org