The Young Adult Transformation Collective connects, resources, and equips participating locally-led transformation programs.
Partnering with YATC gives organizations, churches, schools, movements - anyone! - an opportunity to invest in and collaborate with programs deeply committed to transforming the world through transforming young adults. If you are a mission-aligned group that wants to connect with a larger ecosystem, but YATC membership isn’t right for you, we still want to connect: How can we support each other? How can we work together to strengthen both our efforts for a better world? How can we collaborate creatively? Fill out this interest form and we’ll be in touch so we can dream together!
(If you’re a residential transformation program for young adults and interested in YATC, click here to see why we think YATC membership is the right fit for you!)
YATC partners commit to…
Honoring shared values
Promoting YATC in their local contexts and communities
Investing financially in YATC work
Benefits to partnership:
Be part of this transformative work!
Offer input into the future of this collective and the work we can do together
Connect with the YATC ecosystem - plug in to a national network for cross-pollination and mutual support
YATC members prioritize collaboration with YATC partners (e.g., YATC members offering vocational discernment resources or reflections)
Access YATC curriculum, reflection resources, and continuing education opportunities at a discount
Be listed as a partner on the YATC website
How to become a partner:
Fill out this interest form to tell us a little about your group.
Meet with a small group of YATC staff and Advisory Board members for exploration and mutual discernment.
If we both think it’s a great fit, we’ll work together to describe the exact parameters of partnership. YATC staff work with partners to co-create a document that describes how we’re in reciprocal relationship - creative ideas and ways of collaborating are possible!
The role of partners is intentionally fairly wide and nonspecific in order to invite mutual discernment around what will benefit both YATC and each partner in relationship and collaboration. We believe in true mutual relationships - let’s figure out how we can support each other.
Collective Partners
Youth Mission Co
Dream & Scheme
Youth Mission Co plans, hosts, and leads justice-centered and biblically-based mission and education opportunities for middle school, high school & college students. This includes week long summer mission immersion experiences, weekend mission retreats in the fall and spring, spring break mission experiences and a year-long Mission Scholar Program for 9th through 12th graders.
Currently, Youth Mission Co coordinates youth mission education programs in Asheville and Raleigh, NC, Memphis, TN, Charleston, SC, and Dallas, TX.
Dream & Scheme was launched as a container for building authentic, justice-oriented ways to survive under late-stage capitalism in the American Empire. Though the services we offer are different we share core commitments to antiracism, decolonization, repairing harm, and prioritizing time to rest and play.
Dream & Scheme’s partnership with YATC centers around vocational discernment. Our vocational discernment frameworks and practices are for people in all life-stages. We create space for folks who are curious, stuck, growing, aching, struggling to find and follow their sense of call in the midst of climate chaos, late stage capitalism, and cultures of domination that seem inescapable.