Youth With Faces

Future Forward

A young person’s encounter with the juvenile justice system should not define their future.

Youth With Faces works with teens at a critical moment in their lives—beginning while they are in juvenile detention and continuing as they return home. Through career training, vocational certifications, financial education, paid work experiences, and individualized reentry support, we help young people build the skills, confidence, and connections they need for what comes next.

This North Texas Giving Day, your gift helps create opportunities for young people to move from detention toward education, employment, and stability.

We Start Before Reentry Begins

For a teenager leaving juvenile detention, finding a job or returning to school is rarely as simple as filling out an application. Many of the young people we serve are navigating disrupted education, family instability, poverty, trauma, limited work experience, and few connections to the resources that could help them move forward. That is why Youth With Faces does not wait until after release to begin.

Our FutureU programs reach teens in Dallas and Collin Counties through:

• Career Readiness — career pathway exploration, resumes, interviewing, workplace communication, goal setting, and professional skills

• Culinary Arts & Hospitality — hands-on vocational training, industry certifications, and paid Earn & Learn experiences

• Financial Empowerment — practical skills for budgeting, banking, saving, and making informed financial decisions

• FutureU Reentry — individualized planning and ongoing support for education, employment, basic needs, and stability after release

Every student develops a personalized FutureU Plan focused on their education, career goals, and next steps as they work alongside a Youth With Faces case manager to set and achieve their personal goals. And our support does not end when they leave a facility.

Your Gift Creates Opportunity

A donation to Youth With Faces helps provide the practical resources young people need to turn their goals into action—from curriculum and classroom supplies to certification exams, paid work experiences, and individualized reentry support.

Your support can help a teenager:

Find a career path they had never considered.
Build a resume and practice their first job interview.
Earn an industry-recognized certification.
Receive pay for an Earn & Learn work experience. 
Connect with professionals and resources in the community. 
Return home with a plan—and someone to call when obstacles arise.

These opportunities become building blocks for something much bigger: confidence, employment, education, stability, and a different vision for the future.

The Impact Is Growing

Since 2001, Youth With Faces has served more than 2,800 young people. Today, we operate across five program sites in Dallas and Collin Counties. In 2025 alone, more than 430 youth participated in Youth With Faces programming. Youth impacted by the justice system are more than the circumstances that brought them there. They are future employees, chefs, entrepreneurs, parents, neighbors, and community leaders. Sometimes what changes a young person’s trajectory is access to an opportunity—and someone who believes they can make something of it.

Your North Texas Giving Day gift helps provide both. Give today and help a young person build the skills, connections, and confidence to shape their own future. Thank you!