Youth-serving agencies, throughout the state of Minnesota, provide a continuum of services to meet the unique and complex needs of youth experiencing homelessness, with the goal of ensuring that their experiences are brief and non-recurring, as well as creating intentional services to prevent youth from experiencing future episodes of homelessness.

Despite the significant gains made in responding to the crisis of youth homelessness, due to a number of factors the number of youth who are homeless on their own continues to increase. The most recent study from Wilder Research indicates that on any given night over 6,000 youth across the state experience homelessness and do not have a safe place to sleep.

As a member of The Youth Services Network (YSNMN), The Bridge engages in multiple efforts in to amplify the unique needs of youth experiencing homeless to ensure they have access to programs and services in places and spaces, that are reflective of their community.