Welcome to CrossingBarriers!

At CrossingBarriers we believe that through creating agents for change, leadership development and issue-based organizing, low-income young people facing poverty can develop the skills necessary to address the community based issues that they face and produce systemic change within their own communities. Thank you for visiting our website! Please use the navigation links above to explore CrossingBarriers.org

Who We Are at CrossingBarriers?

Our mission is to develop the leadership skills of low-income youth and community members to improve education, address community based issues and be agents for change. We provide leadership development training through issue-based community organizing on issues such as equal and quality education which is one of the main reasons of poverty in our communities. We focus our projects on the needs and challenges facing youth of color, immigrant youth and their communities that face poverty. Our leadership training provides youth and activists with the tools they need in order to succeed in their schools, better their communities and achieve their goals.

At CrossingBarriers, low-income youth students and their families are agents for change in projects committed to contributing positively to the long term social economic stability, success of their community and education. We also address immediate issues that affect communities through an issues-based community organizing approach which is led by the youth and activists. The leadership skills learned here have been empowering for our youth leaders and activists. Our training sessions have helped students achieve their educational and career goals successfully.

The foundation and backbone of CrossingBarriers is its community support of  low-income youth students volunteers and community members such as parent activists. Each program we have is directed by and for the needs of its participants. Participants tell us what issues and challenges they face in their schools and communities, and CrossingBarriers provides leadership training, community organizing and civic participation process in order for participants to advocate effectively and have impact on the system it is addressing.