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Louisville Youth Programs & Services Directory

Connect Students and Families With Community Programs

In-school • After-school • Weekends • Summer and school breaks

LYPS Connect is a searchable directory that helps JCPS staff, young people, and families find Louisville programs and services in one place.

What Is LYPS Connect?

Youth Programs. One Connection. Watch the LYPS Connect video.

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Built From Listening

Over the last year, insights from conversations with JCPS district leaders, the American Institutes for Research project focused on family and community engagement, and the Superintendent’s Community Meetings in June and September have pointed to a consistent need: schools, families, and community providers need a clearer way to understand what programs exist, where they operate, and how to connect young people to them.

Those insights, alongside earlier work identifying and verifying Louisville’s violence-prevention organizations, helped shape LYPS Connect. With support from Metro United Way, those community resources are now being brought together in one searchable place.

— Nicole Hayden

What the Directory Brings Together

LYPS Connect brings together information gathered through years of community partnership work, existing public and partner resource lists, and direct provider submissions.

The directory includes mentoring programs serving JCPS students and other community partners, arts programming, mental-health and therapeutic services, after-school and summer programs, violence-prevention programs, and career and workforce-readiness opportunities.

Providers are currently reviewing and confirming their listings so the directory and gap analysis reflect the most accurate information possible.

Explore the Directory

What LYPS Connect Provides

Practical tools for discovery, referrals, verification, and community planning.

  • A searchable youth-program and community-resource directory
  • Secure provider access for updating organization and program information
  • Verification dates that identify recently reviewed listings
  • The Louisville Violence Prevention Asset Map
  • JCPS provider and partnership information
  • Community data that supports planning, referrals, collaboration, and investment
Phase One

Building the Foundation

Phase One established the foundation for the LYPS Connect directory, provider-verification system, community Asset Map, and public resource platform.

LYPS Connect

A project of 50/50 Mentoring Collaborative Inc.

Phase One made possible with support from Metro United Way

Produced by AMX Labs x Tech At Nite

Project Partners & Contributors

LYPS Connect was developed through community engagement, research, collaboration, and shared investment. These partners and contributors helped shape and strengthen the resource for Louisville youth and families. Some are also directory participants; their contributions are recognized separately here.

Project Leadership, District & Funding Partners

Organizations whose original logos have been provided for LYPS Connect.

50/50 Mentoring Collaborative logoProject Leadership · 50/50 Mentoring CollaborativeMetro United Way logoFunding & Project Support · Metro United WayDistrict Collaboration · JCPSCommunity input and school-connection data

Community, Arts & Youth Contributors

Arts logoArtsArts & community contributions
Jefferson County Leadership Academy logoJefferson County Leadership AcademyDistrict leadership collaboration
Louisville Urban League logoLouisville Urban LeagueCommunity safety ecosystem collaboration
The Alliance for Violence Reduction and Community Safety logoThe Alliance for Violence Reduction and Community SafetyCommunity safety collaboration
Tech-Nique logoTech-NiqueYouth & community contributions

Additional contributors are also recognized by name below.

Youth Verification & Community Feedback

  • TechBoss Youth Verifiers
  • 50/50 Mentoring Collaborative — Content Collective Youth Verifiers
  • Louisville Urban League (LUL) Community-Based Public Safety Ecosystem Partners
  • Youth Success Network
  • The Alliance for Reduction and Community Safety
  • Fund for the Arts

Funding Partner

  • Metro United Way Youth Access Network
Help Build Phase Two

Invest in the Next Phase of LYPS Connect

LYPS Connect is seeking foundation, corporate, public-sector, and community investment for Phase Two.

Future support will help expand provider verification, strengthen community data, improve the directory and Asset Map, conduct additional youth and stakeholder focus groups, and connect more Louisville families and schools with accurate program information.

Request a Phase Two ProposalNicole Hayden · nicole@5050mentoringcollab.org