Youth First Initiative at the New Venture Fund

The Youth First is a project of the New Venture Fund. Youth First works to end youth incarceration, close youth prisons, and invest in community-based programs, services and opportunities for youth. Our country’s system of youth incarceration is unjust. We see urgency in this crisis and demand that ending youth incarceration becomes a national priority. Youth First partners with state-based groups and coalitions to build effective advocacy and organization campaigns to close youth prisons and reinvest in alternatives to incarceration.