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UYWI Partners and Sponsors
- Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) Leveraging RESEARCH into RESOURCES that ELEVATE leaders, kids and families.
- Center For Youth Studies CYS seeks to provide relevant informational resources and to promote local and global collaboration toward a comprehensive systems approach to ministry with youth.
- Tech Mission / UrbanMinistry.org Tech Mission hosts the UYWI Audio/Video Library. They also facilitate volunteer matching for urban ministries and volunteers.
- Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) The mission of CCDA is to inspire, train and connect Christians who seek to bear witness to the Kingdom of God by reclaiming and restoring under-resourced communities.
Bloggers We Follow:
- Urban Onramps / Rudy Carrasco
- Jeremy Del Rio / @JeremyDelRio 20/20 Vision for Schools, New York, NY
- Leneita Fix Blue Sky Green Sky Consulting, West Palm Beach, FL
- John Liotti / @jonnie17 Northern California Urban Development Corporation, East Palo Alto, CA
- Love is An Orientation / Andrew Marin - Elevating the Conversation between the Church and the LGBT Community. Chicago, IL
Resources for Youth Workers
- StickyFaith.org / @StickyFaith- Developing Faith that will last a lifetime: Resources for parents and youth workers
- DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative (DVULI) is an intense 15-month tuition-sponsored leadership development program for urban youth workers.
- Youth Specialties (YS) is here to help you, whether you’re new to youth ministry or a veteran, whether you’re a volunteer or a career youth pastor.
- YouthPartnersNET
- Youth Works
- Center for Parent/Youth Understanding (CPYU) (Pasadena, CA)
- Immerse Journal
- National Network of Youth Ministries (NNYM)
- Sojourners – Faith, Politics, Culture
- Urban Strategies - Connecting urban ministries to Federal Funding
- UrbanFaith.com Christian commentary, culture, and conversation.
- Help for Depression
National Youth-Serving Organizations
- Young Life Multicultural & Urban
- Youth For Christ (YFC)
- Here’s Life Inner City
- InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
- Dare 2 Share Ministries
- Cru (Formerly Campus Crusade for Christ)
- World Vision – US Programs a Christian humanitarian organization tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
Mission Trips for Your Youth
- City Connexx - Short term missions, long-term impact
- Center for Student Missions (CSM)
- Mission Year Young adults live and work together as full-time urban missionaries in inner-city neighborhoods throughout the United States.
Local Ministries in Cities across the US
- City Vision (Columbus, OH) – Transforming Communities by Changing Lives
- Harambee (Pasadena, CA)
- KidWorks (Santa Ana, CA)
- World Impact (Los Angeles, CA)
- The Oaks Camp and Conference Center (Lake Hughes, CA)
- The Simple Way (Philadelphia, PA)
- Street Schools (Denver, CO)
- Urban D/Crossover Church/FlavorFest (Tampa, FL)
- CLUE-CA - Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (California)
Higher Education
- Biola University / Biola Youth Ministry Outreach (La Mirada, CA)
- Bakke Graduate University (Seattle, WA)
- North Park University / Center for Youth Ministry Studies (Chicago, IL)
- North Central University / Center for Youth and Leadership (Minneapolis, MN)
- Eastern University (Philadelphia, PA) / The Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education / Tony Campolo (EAPE) (St. Davids, PA)
- City Vision College (Kansas City, MO)
- Fresno Pacific University(Fresno, CA)
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