Our Services
Pathfinders offers a variety of programs and resources to ensure youth’s immediate safety and long-term stability.
Young people provide extensive input on these programs to ensure they are effective for themselves and their peers.
Youth can start their journey with Pathfinders through any program, and many access more than one to meet their unique needs.
Questions? Contact info@pathfindersmke.org
Housing
Young adults aged 18-25 and their dependent children
Helping unhoused young people secure safe housing and prevent future homelessness. Once housed, youth have ongoing support with mental wellness, employment, education and life skills.
Our programs focus on populations particularly vulnerable to homelessness, like LGBTQ+ youth, parenting youth and those aging out of foster care.
Pathfinders is expanding our capacity to address youth and young adult homelessness. Join us.
Drop-In Center
Basic needs & resource connectivity
Meeting youth’s need for food, clothing, mental wellness and safe social spaces. Providing support with housing and homelessness prevention, employment and education, mental wellness and connection to outside resources.
Emergency Youth Shelter
For young people under 18
We provide emergency shelter for youth aged 11-17, plus crisis counseling services for youth aged 18-21. Facilitating connection to other Pathfinders resources to help youth maintain safety and stability.
Clinical Services
Mental health & life skills
Supporting young people living with mental health, psychosis and/or substance use diagnoses to reduce negative symptoms, develop life skills and transition into adulthood.
CCS referrals can be made to ccsreferrals@pathfindersmke.org.
Street Outreach
Mobile resource center
Connecting with youth in their neighborhoods to share basic needs items, health and safety resources and connection to Pathfinders’ in-house services.
Anti-Sexual Violence Services
Advocacy, mental health, crisis intervention
Connecting youth, 25 and under, experiencing trafficking with supportive advocates, housing, mental health support, legal resources and more. We also provide advocacy during court proceedings and in health care systems after a violent event.
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Get Involved
Provide safety, hope and healing to youth.
Get Informed
Learn about issues impacting youth.
Donation Drop-offs
Guidelines for in-kind gifts.
Pathfinders receive grant support from the Family and Youth Services Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the Family and Youth Services Bureau.