yStrive for Youth, Inc. strives to be a youth-initiated, member-driven youth organization consisting of integrated short and long term, member-identif

In June of 2006 ySTRIVE held its last retreat as the state-funded Gang Risk Intervention Program (GRIP). The funding for GRIP ended but the need for a program to help gang-risk youth continued. On July 4, 2006 ySTRIVE was born, having its first meeting at a local resturant on Micheltorina Street. Because funding had been an issue with GRIP, the founders of ySTRIVE wanted to build a new program that would not and could not be stopped because someone decided not to fund it. The new program would n...

In June of 2006 ySTRIVE held its last retreat as the state-funded Gang Risk Intervention Program (GRIP). The funding for GRIP ended but the need for a program to help gang-risk youth continued. On July 4, 2006 ySTRIVE was born, having its first meeting at a local resturant on Micheltorina Street. Because funding had been an issue with GRIP, the founders of ySTRIVE wanted to build a new program that would not and could not be stopped because someone decided not to fund it. The new program would not be resisted as the high school-based GRIP was.