When Youth Thrive, We All Thrive
Alliance for Youth Thriving
The Alliance for Youth Thriving is committed to building more transformative learning ECOsystems where all youth thrive.
When Youth Thrive, We All Thrive
Young people have a powerful drive to thrive—but they need more fuel. All youth have potential, but too many lack the opportunities, relationships, and conditions to flourish, putting our democracy and economy at risk.
Our alliance of coalitions, campaigns, networks, and field leaders is maximizing the success of efforts to develop community-wide, year-round pathways for youth and young adults by optimizing the people, places, possibilities, and systems across the learning ecosystem.
Together, we work to strengthen ECOsystems where Every Connection is Optimized, by collaborating, sharing resources, and advocating for policies and practices that center youth well-being, learning, and thriving at every stage of their journey.
Our Commitments
Just as we aim to optimize connections across local ecosystems, Alliance members also work to spark deeper collaboration across future-forging networks and initiatives at the national and state level.
Through this coalition of coalitions, we are working together to:
Recent Resources
Alliance members are regular contributors to and promoters of Youth Today under the When Youth Thrive We All Thrive banner.
on November 13, 2025Understanding developmental pathways of constrained and unconstrained skills helps realize the importance of learning ecosystems. The post Why unconstrained kids need unconstrained ecosystems appeared first on Youth Today.
on October 30, 2025History Co:Lab recently released the clearest and most complete explanation of the inseparability of youth and community thriving I have ever read. The post Six reasons to read ‘Teen-Centered Civics for Human Thriving’ today appeared first on Youth Today.
on October 22, 2025Katherine Plog Martinez talks with Leslie-Rule about writing “How We See Us”. The post Q&A with Michaela Leslie-Rule on “How We See Us” appeared first on Youth Today.
on October 16, 2025We must recognize the youth development and OST fields as complementary systems that are too important to ignore and essential. The post Is the youth development field confident enough about its contributions to learning to disrupt K-12 education? appeared first on Youth Today.
on October 10, 2025Karen Pittman speaks with Michael Crawford, Ph.D. of America Succeeds about its goals, including why they have joined the Alliance for Youth Thriving. The post Q&A with Michael Crawford, America Succeeds appeared first on Youth Today.
