By Shelly Burningham, Real Life Director Real Life is an after-school tutoring and life skills peer mentoring program that partners Youthlinc with a variety of organizations in Salt Lake County. Real Life provides active, practical, after-school programming to teens, tween with refugee or immigrant status in Utah.      Real Life was born through the visionary leadership of Ellie Seaborn, a Youthlinc employee at the time.  She explains, "Four nights a week, I was working with

By Shelly Burningham Accepting applications through March 15, 2020.  Click here  to learn more about the Real Life Scholarship. Over the past few years in Real Life, many students have indicated that they want to go to college and have a decent job, but in reality there are many barriers that hinder them from following through on that dream.  Because of this, Real Life implemented a new college preparation curriculum aimed at preparing high school students for post-secondary

By Jackie Moynihan and Lisa Whittaker Each May, Youthlinc honors outstanding, service-driven high school and college students with the Utah Young Humanitarian Award (YHA) scholarship. With the awarding of our 2020 scholarship winners right around the corner, we decided to check in with our 2012 YHA winner, Lisa Whittaker to see where she is now and how service has made a difference in

The Youthlinc Young Humanitarian Award has been recognizing service-minded Utah high school juniors and seniors and undergraduates students since 2005. Promoting humanitarianism among youth is the reason behind this annual tribute, made possible by the generous donation of the George S. Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, the Robert D. Kent Jr Trust, and the Michel Foundation.  As most everyone will recognize this year has been monumental to date.  With COVID-19 we were brought t

Youthlinc is pleased to announce the awarding of five academic scholarships honoring Real Life high school seniors and college students of refugee or immigrant background.  We would like to recognize the Low Family Foundation, the Barker Charitable Foundation and an anonymous donor for their contributions to make this award possible.  In 2020, we awarded one $5,000 winner, one $3,000 winner and three $2,000 winners for a total of $14,000 in college scholarships.   Rock Douka

We are proud to announce our 2020 High School Young Humanitarian Award Winner Taylor Fang, Logan High School Taylor is passionate about sharing technology with girls of diverse backgrounds. She is the founder of Girls Explore Tech (GET), a 7-week series of free, hands-on workshops for local middle-schoolers. She has also independently directed two summer camps with Junior Achievement of Utah over 16 hours. Her efforts over the past three years have directly impacted over 134

By: Tong Quang Nam I am Nam. I am writing this to send my great thanks to the organization for helping Buoc village’s residents recover and improve their living standards. As a person who has spent years in Buoc village working and living with the people there, I am very thankful and impressed by Youthlinc's assistance. Last year, after a massive landslide in Buoc village and its surrounding areas, the minority people suffered from seriously detrimental effects in terms of ch