Thinking Broadly: Financing Strategies for Youth Programs

This guidebook provides research on financing and sustaining supports and services for children, youth, and families. This strategy brief presents a typology of approaches for financing youth programs. It suggests general principles to guide the selection of financing strategies based on the complexities and unique aspects of youth programs. It also provides considerations to help state and local leaders develop financing plans that closely align with their program goals, available resources, and the political and economic environments in which they work.