Coalition Facts

  • Since 1996, over 2,000 students have graduated from Massachusetts YouthBuild programs.
  • 87.6% of YouthBuild graduates statewide (FY 97-07) continued on to full time employment or institutions of higher education.
  • Of the students who have moved on to full time employment the average hourly wage is $10.16.
  • 402 students have moved to higher education or job training. 1,274 students found full-time work.

Program Facts

  • Since 1999, more than 175 young people have helped to build or reconstruct 11 housing units sold to low-income first-time home-buyers and rehabilitated 207 low-income apartment units with Worcester Housing Authority at YouthBuild Worcester.
  • At YouthBuild Brockton 91% of grads have been placed in jobs or higher education.
  • YouthBuild Lowell has built 6 Energy Star rated units since 2000.
  • Housing developed by YouthBuild Lawrence will be affordable forever instead of just for 5-20 years.
  • YouthBuild Just-A-Start built one of ten LEED certified housing units in a new housing development in Cambridge.
  • With PACE, students will perform energy audits and weatherization projects in the YouthBuild New Bedford community.
  • YouthBuild Fall River will be employing graduates to manufacture Green products and will be retrofitting municipal buildings in Fall River.
  • With the Quincy Housing Authority, YouthBuild Quincy students are helping replace roofs, siding and windows of 180 buildings. All of the work will be up to HUD energy standards.
  • At YouthBuild Boston, students finished 2 LEED certified affordable housing units in Boston.
  • Participants in YouthBuild Springfield's program will work on the first LEED certified low-income housing project in Western Massachusetts.

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MA Governor Deval Patrick visits with staff at YB Lowell