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YouthBuild Lake County is governed by a Board of Directors. Members of the board are hard working and devoted to YouthBuild Lake County and our trainees. They believe strongly in the mission of the agency and are dedicated to success.
Click here to see a list of our current board members.
Three subcommittees of the YBLC board are the Community
Coalition, the Construction Coalition and the Fundraising Committee.
To learn more about the objectives and see a list of members of the
Community Coalition, click here.
To
find out more information about the Construction Coalition and see
its member list, click here.
Click
here to learn more about the Fundraising Ccommittee and see a
list of members.
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YouthBuild Lake County is a local chapter of
YouthBuild USA a national youth development organization that
was founded in Harlem in 1990. Our YouthBuild Program began in 2001
as part of Daisy’s Resource and Development Center. YBLC was incorporated by our founder, Sadiqa Queen, as an independent non-profit agency in November 2003.
We are proud to provide education opportunities and job training
skills to those youth in Lake County who need it most.
While Lake County, Illinois, has some of the wealthiest communities
within the state, it also has some of the most poverty-stricken. In
the city of North Chicago, 54% of young people do not finish high
school and over 15% of families live in poverty. Program
participants are from these areas, where gang violence and drugs are
commonplace. To qualify for our programs, our trainees much be
low-income . Many of
our trainees are unemployed, high school drop outs, with children
and police records. We estimate that 80% were involved in gangs
before entering our program. YBLC is a drug-free, violence-free
haven – a supportive environment where young people can begin the
process of changing their lives.
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