The Utah Federation for Youth will support service and service-learning projects through Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) from April 20-22, 2012.  An annual campaign to celebrate and mobilize millions of youth each year, GYSD is the largest day of service in the world.  The Utah Federation for Youth is registering projects designed and inspired by local youth to better communities through education, community involvement, and outdoor recreation.

Many of such projects need a small stipend to get their projects off the ground.  The Utah Federation for Youth will award between $20 and $200 to projects outlined and planned to directly impact the community’s needs to ensure successful completion of volunteer projects on Global Youth Service Day.

Click here to register your project through Utah Federation for Youth to take part in the Global Youth Service Day.  Applications for funding stipends are available through Feb. 15, 2012 for service-learning projects (valued from $20-$200) through the Utah Federation for Youth and Youth Service America.

The Utah Federation for Youth is proud to announce the opening of our new youth center. We will be housed in the South Parc apartment complex, and our program will be a part of the complex's Hser Ner Moo Community Center. In partnership with the South Salt Lake Recreation Department, youth will receive academic support, one on one mentoring, drug and violence prevention and lots of fun activities. We are always in need of lots of supplies to keep the center running.

Please help click for a donation list.

Project Guuleysi serves high school refugee youth in the Salt Lake Valley in this unique, in-and-after-school initative. These youth are at high risk for school dropout, recruitment to gangs, drug, alcohol and tobacco use, teen pregnancy, and other high-risk behaviors.

Named after the Somali verb for success, Project Guuleysi is focused on preventing these high-risk youth from finding their way to high-risk behaviors. Keeping these young men and young women engaged in structured, positive activities, addressing their academic needs, and working to strengthen their families is Guuleysi’s vision—a way to prevent trouble from finding these young people, and a way to help these young people find success—in school and life. Utah Federation for Youth provides all participants and families with a Parent Handbook to detail the program's mission and goals.