YouthBuild is a comprehensive youth and community development program as well as an alternative school.
Many graduates go on to construction-related jobs or college.
Alumni receive post-program counseling. YouthBuild helps young people recognize that they can have some control over their futures. Young people who grow up feeling ignored find that they have a voice and can play a major role in improving their communities. The successes they experience help them recognize they too can have a share in the American dream. Tony Minor, one of the original teenage founders of the first YouthBuild program in East Harlem established in 1978.