Youth Support Services
About Navigate
We are proud to offer a variety of support services to youth facing significant barriers to success. Often these youth are unhoused or otherwise underserved and need support navigating complex systems and accessing resources for education and employment. Navigate services include crucial support for education, career goals, financial stability, employment, and more.
Navigate Services
Our Resource Navigators help youth, ages 14-24 years, gain work readiness, academic, and professional skills to increase their success as they transition back into education or the workforce.
Employment Support
- Job counseling and workforce preparation
- Elevate tours and career skills webinars
- Job shadows and paid work placement opportunities
- Job search, resume, and application help
- Occupational skills training, apprenticeships, trade school
Education Support
- Tutoring & GED preparation
- School re-enrollment support
- Resource specialist connections
- School supply provision
- Post-secondary: college applications, financial aid, etc.
Adult Skills Mentoring
- Housing application support
- Navigating OHP and healthcare systems
- Application support for unemployment, Social Security, driver’s licenses, and more
Financial Literacy
- Personal Finance Classes through DevNW including personal instruction on budgeting, banking, credit health, and more
- Partnership with OCCU for specialized account setup
Navigate Events
DevNW Financial Foundations Courses
We partner with DevNW to offer youth Financial Foundations courses.
Are you working to save for a car, a degree, or your first apartment? Financial Foundations class will teach you the techniques and provide you with the mobile tools to reach your goals. You’ll learn to manage money, build emergency savings, create savings goals for big purchases, build and repair credit, and make smart decisions about taking on loans.
Wonder Wednesdays
Join us in Eugene at our Spark on 7th location or in Cottage Grove at the Cottage Grove Community Center on the last Wednesday of each month for Wonder Wednesdays. Wonder Wednesdays allow youth to enjoy a fun environment while learning essential life skills. Did we mention dinner will be provided? The Wonder topic will change each month, so check the calendar!
Sponsor a Youth
Calling on individuals, organizations, and partners who believe in the power of youth potential and peer-driven support to help us continue this essential work.
Your Contribution Makes an Impact
Every dollar you give helps us:
- Reconnect youth with education and career pathways
- Offer peer support services that build resilience and belonging
- Provide access to mentorship, basic needs, and stability
Whether you can make a one-time gift, become a monthly supporter, or explore partnership opportunities, your involvement fuels real change.
Join Us
If you believe in creating equitable opportunities for youth, now is the time to act.
Donate Now or Contact Us to learn how you can support or partner with Connected Lane County.
Together, we can ensure that young people continue to feel seen, supported, and set up for success, no matter what.
Youth Testimonial
Danielle is a youth that enrolled in our Navigate program in December 2020. When she first came into the program, Danielle was 17 years old, disengaged from school, unhoused, and involved in the juvenile justice system. In the three months since enrolling, Danielle has found housing stability in a transitional living house, started mental health counseling support, and re-enrolled in school. Recently, Danielle completed the five-week DevNW Youth Financial Foundations course and was able to open a bank account through Connected Lane County’s partnership with Oregon Community Credit Union. Danielle claims her biggest success in the program is “getting back into school and getting job experience.”
The most beneficial thing: “[Navigate] helped me achieve getting my forms of identification like my driver’s permit and my birth certificate."
