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Our Building

A Transformational Space

Our youth center at 1911 Church Street in Evanston offers world-class program spaces for experiential learning, mental health counseling, and community gatherings.

The building also houses Y.O.U.’s dedicated staff team in collaborative, open office spaces.

  • Makerspace

    Our youth are innovators, artists, and engineers. Whether it’s film-editing software, a 3D printer, or circuit boards, our Makerspace has everything youth need to become master creators.

  • Demonstration Kitchen

    Nothing builds community like cooking and sharing a meal! Our kitchen provides commercial-grade facilities where youth can build culinary skills, experience new cultural foods, and deepen their relationships with one another.

  • Learning Garden

    Through a partnership with The Talking Farm, our learning garden has been designed, built, and maintained by Y.O.U. youth. The garden offers youth the opportunity to learn about scientific concepts like photosynthesis, explore techniques such as composting and sustainable farming, and harvest produce to cook in the demonstration kitchen. Read about our F3 Program

  • Gathering Space

    Our central gathering space is a place for youth, families, staff, partners, and other community members to join together in learning and celebration. The collaborative, multi-purpose room is also open to partners to reserve.

Take a virtual tour of our new building, led by Y.O.U. high schooler, Brezah! 

Interested in utilizing our space? 

Y.O.U. partners are able to reserve our Gathering Space for use during normal business hours (M-F 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Please review our reservation guidelines and then fill out a request form.

Request Use of Our Space

Thank you to our Community and Partners!

We would like to give a special thank you to the following businesses who made our Youth Center & Headquarters possible through in-kind donations and other forms of support:

  • Designs for Dignity
  • The Engineering Studio, Inc.
  • Evanston Lumber
  • First Bank
  • Grumman/Butkus Associates
  • Kettlekamp & Kettlekamp Landscape Architecture
  • Leopardo Companies
  • Matrix Engineering Corporation
  • Ozinga Concrete
  • Project Management Associates
  • R&L Consulting (Security Design)
  • Studio Talo Architecture
  • Terra Engineering.