Youth Programs

Boy Scouts of America
www.scouting.org
The National Council of the Boy Scouts of America supports more than 300 local councils that provide quality youth programs promoting leadership and teaching decision-making and teamwork skills. The national council provides programs and publications, promotes training, and houses a media center.

Campfire USA
www.campfireusa.org
CampFire USA's mission is to build caring, confident youth and future leaders through national development programs delivered to 120 local councils across the nation. Core programs include leadership development, service learning, and mentoring opportunities.

Youth Crime Watch of America
www.ycwa.org
YCWA enables youth to become resources for preventing crime, drug use, and violence in their schools and communities. Youth take ownership for their own programs in schools, neighborhoods, public housing sites, recreational centers, or parks. Youth led programs encourage crime reporting, mentoring and mediation.

Girl Scouts of the USA
www.girlscouts.org
Girl Scouts of the USA provides research, programs, and resources that help young girls build leadership, decision-making, and teamwork skills. Through advocacy efforts, Girl Scouts informs and educates key representatives of the government about issues important to girls and scouting.

National 4-H Council
www.fourhcouncil.edu
The National 4-H Council provides grants, establishes programs and initiatives, designs and publishes curriculum and reference materials, and creates linkages fostering innovation and shared learning to advance the 4-H youth development movement, building a world in which youth and adults lean, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change.

National Family Partnership
www.nfp.org
The National Family Partnership shares tools, strategies, and resources to support families and communities in their effort to promote safe, drug-free youth, NEP also sponsors Red Ribbon Week.

National Youth Leadership Council
www.nylc.org
The National Youth Leadership Council's mission is to build vital, just communities through service learning. NYLC is at the forefront of efforts to reform education and guide youth-oriented public policy.

Street Law, Inc.
www.streetlaw.org
Street Law, Inc. provides young people with information about law, democracy, and human rights and provides youth leadership programs in communities and schools nationally and internationally.

Teens, Crime, and the Community
www.ncpc.org/programs/teens-crime-and-the-community
TCC has brought more than half a million youth from more than 40 states into the world of crime prevention through education and teen led and implemented action projects. TCC programs are found in juvenile justice facilities, schools, and community-based sites and led by crime prevention practitioners, law-related educators, school administrators, and victim practitioners. TCC offers free program training and technical assistance to these adults.