nearTheLakes | YIC Featured Initiative
Community leaders gathering to discuss youth events, plan calendars, and network on behalf of youth-in-crisis initiatives, so young people have coordinated, real-world support behind them.
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A practical space where community leaders come together on behalf of youth, coordinating events, aligning calendars, and building the networks that keep young people from falling through the cracks.
Facilitated conversations among community leaders, mentors, coaches, faith leaders, and local organizers who care about youth outcomes—sharing what’s working and where gaps remain.
Coordinating youth-positive events, mentoring windows, sports & arts opportunities, and safe-space programming so the community calendar actually serves young people instead of competing with itself.
Building trusted relationships across neighborhoods, schools, businesses, and nonprofits so that when a young person is in crisis, the right adult network already exists and can respond.
Isolated programs help some young people. Coordinated leaders help more. Courtside Courtyard Strategies exist so that the adults who already care about youth can line up their efforts (events, calendars, and relationships) around the young people who need them most.
Featured on the main YIC page under Featured Initiatives so patrons can direct support specifically here.
Practical rhythms that turn good intentions into coordinated action for youth.
Scheduled times for community leaders to sit together, share what they are seeing with youth, and decide what the next 30–90 days of events and support should look like.
One living calendar of youth-positive activities so mentors, coaches, and families can actually find and protect the moments that matter.
Intentional networking so a school counselor, a coach, a landlord, a faith leader, and a business owner already know each other before a crisis hits.
What leaders learn on the ground feeds back into broader Youth in Crisis resources, so the whole network gets smarter over time.
Twin Cities real estate ventures in commercial assets and residential transformations. nearthelakes.com since 2006
Hands-on management of high-value assets, tenant relations, renovations, compliance, and operational efficiency across the Twin Cities.
Connecting owners, developers, contractors, institutions, and neighborhood partners, relational skill that Courtside Courtyard Strategies can benefit from.
Real estate and community networks sit at the center of where young people live, play, and seek belonging. Supporting youth strategies is a natural extension of that work.
Direct your support in favor of this specific effort—exactly as invited on the main Youth in Crisis “Featured Initiatives” section.
Fuel leader gatherings, shared youth calendars, and the networking that keeps community adults coordinated on behalf of young people in crisis.
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