Issue Coalition (noun) A peer-networking group of the National Assembly that exists because of a community of interest in a particular topic.

National Collaboration for Youth
The National Collaboration for Youth (NCY), a 30-year old organization, is a coalition of the National Assembly member organizations that have a significant interest in youth development. Members of the National Collaboration for Youth include fifty national, non-profit, youth development organizations. The mission of NCY is to provide a united voice as advocates for youth to improve the conditions of young people in America, and to help young people reach their full potential.

Visit www.collab4youth.org

Collectively, the member organizations of the National Collaboration for Youth

• Serve more than 40 million young people
• Employ over 100,000 paid staff
• Utilize more than six million volunteers
• Have a physical presence in virtually every community in America

NCY establishes ten national youth worker competencies   to help ensure the quality of youth programs by standardizing the qualifications of the people who provide the programs, both paid staff and volunteers.  CLICK HERE to see the competencies. 

NCY is the sponsor of the National Youth Development Information Network (NYDIC) and the National Youth Development Learning Network.

Family Strengthening Policy Center
The Family Strengthening Policy Center aims to make family strengthening a priority by mainstreaming neighborhood-based, family-centered practices, programs and policy.  By leveraging the National Human Services Assembly's network of 70 health and human service member organizations, the Center's objective is to promote family policy that contributes to family economic and social empowerment.   The Center produces policy briefs and a monthly e-newsletter and convenes a Family Strengthening Peer Network.

• Family Strengthening Policy Center One-Page Document
• For more information, click here.

Family Strengthening Peer Network

The Family Strengthening Peer Network, an initiative of the National Human Services Assembly Family Strengthening Policy Center, funded through the generous support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a working group of experts – primarily from national organizations, municipalities, and research institutions – who are integrating the family strengthening framework into their programs, policies, and practices.

• Family Strengthening Peer Network One-Page Document
• For more information click here

Initiatives & Coalitions