Youth Collaboratory Inc.

Youth Collaboratory Inc. is a non-profit organization registered in SAM.gov since 2004, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The organization specializes in providing training and technical assistance (TTA) to various federal agencies, with a primary focus on youth services, mentoring, and supporting vulnerable youth populations. Its mission centers on addressing critical social challenges affecting adolescents and young people, particularly those experiencing risk factors such as human trafficking, juvenile justice involvement, homelessness, and migration/immigration challenges.

Through its federal grant awards, Youth Collaboratory Inc. has consistently worked as a prime recipient and technical assistance provider for multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Administration on Children, Youth and Families. Its grant-funded projects include developing capacity-building programs for community-based organizations serving human trafficking victims, providing mentoring services to at-risk youth in 12 states, creating training resources for preventing trafficking of girls and gender-expansive youth of color, and offering technical assistance to HUD grantees on community development initiatives. The organization frequently partners with entities like Research Triangle Institute and ABT Global LLC as a sub-recipient, leveraging its expertise in areas such as youth development, violence prevention, education, employment, and strengthening support networks for marginalized youth populations. Its cooperative agreements and project grants typically range from $722,500 to $6,000,000 and have performance periods of three to five years, demonstrating its consistent capacity to manage complex, multi-year federal programs.