Crossroads Programs was founded in 1978 through a collaboration of interfaith community leaders committed to providing shelter to runaway and homeless youth. They formed a volunteer Board of Directors and incorporated Crossroads as a private, non-profit organization.
The Crossroads’ mission is to empower youth who are homeless, abandoned, abused, or at-risk to lead healthy, productive lives.
Over the years Crossroads’ expertise in sheltering youth has expanded to include clinical services for all types of at-risk youth. The programs offer the youth developmental assets, educational and emotional mentoring or coaching, and life skills training. The organization serves approximately 350 youth annually in both residential and community-based programs.
The Agency's programs center around five primary populations – Homeless and Runaway Youth, Teen Moms and Babies, Youth “Aging Out” of Foster Care, At-Risk Youth and Families, and Kids in Crisis – and offer participants the essential combination of promoting youth leadership and developmental assets, educational and emotional mentoring or coaching, and life skills training.
