Youth Futures

Our most needed items are: BatteriesGift CardsDrawstring bags/backpacksCopy PaperHand WarmersGloves   OUR STORYYouth Futures was founded by Kristen Mitchell and Scott Catuccio, who had been conceptuallyplanning to provide shelter and case management services to youth for over six years. It wasidentified that there was a lack of shelter services for the estimated 5,000 youth who experiencehomelessness for at least one night a year in Utah, so Scott and Kristen began researching otherstates that provide shelter services to youth. It was quickly identified that the largest barrier toproviding services to homeless youth in Utah was a law prohibiting the opening of shelter facilitiesfor youth. During the 2014 Legislative Session, HB132 was passed, which allowed for rewriting theprohibitive law and drafting licensing procedures for residential support programs for temporaryhomeless youth shelter in Utah. Youth Futures and other homeless youth service providersparticipated in the rules writin