Help Launch the YouthUp Mobile: Stabilization Unit

Help us reach our $15,000 goal and launch the YouthUp Mobile: Stabilization Unit

Detroit Phoenix Center (DPC) partners with resilient young people to prevent homelessness and break the generational cycle of poverty. We believe young people already have the strengths to succeed. Together, we remove barriers, create opportunities, and build a future where every young person can thrive. Through YouthUp and our other programs, we provide housing support, education, mental health resources, workforce opportunities, leadership development, and basic needs. We bring resources, trusted relationships, and opportunities directly to young people where they are.

For nearly 10 years, Detroit Phoenix Center has partnered with young people by meeting immediate needs, building trusted relationships, and creating pathways to long-term stability. Through YouthUp Mobile Outreach, we've already served more than 4,000 young people across Detroit. Now we're building what's next.

The YouthUp Mobile: Stabilization Unit is a mobile safe space where young people can rest, regroup, and receive immediate support during life's hardest moments. The unit will include rest pods, showers, food, hygiene supplies, technology, private case management space, housing navigation, behavioral health connections, transportation assistance, and referrals to education, employment, healthcare, and other community resources.

Your Gift Will Help Provide

• Rest & Recovery

 Rest pods, comfortable seating, linens, and a safe place where young people can pause, recover, and prepare for their next step.

• Immediate Needs

 Food, bottled water, hygiene kits, clothing, showers, and other essentials that restore dignity and meet urgent needs.

• Stabilization & Resource Navigation

 Private case management space, technology, housing navigation, behavioral health connections, transportation assistance, and referrals to the resources young people need to move forward.

• Mobile Operations

Fuel, equipment, and operational supplies that allow the YouthUp Mobile: Stabilization Unit to bring services directly into neighborhoods across Detroit.

YouthUp Mobile Outreach Has Already Proven What's Possible. Every number below represents a young person who found support, hope, and someone who showed up. Now, we're asking our community to help us take the next step.

The YouthUp Mobile: Stabilization Unit will ensure that when a young person experiences a crisis, they have a safe place to turn and someone ready to help.

 Double Your Impact! 🎉

Thanks to the generosity of BrassCraft, every eligible donation made during the Rocket Community Challenge will be matched dollar for dollar! Your gift will go even further in helping launch the YouthUp Mobile: Stabilization Unit.

Help us reach our $15,000 goal and launch the YouthUp Mobile: Stabilization Unit