About TAY SF
Transitional Age Youth Initiative (TAY SF) is an outgrowth of the Mayor Newsom’s Transitional Youth Task Force--an interagency planning effort that created directives to improve outcomes for TAY, aged 16-24. TAY SF is working to implement the TYTF vision by creating partnerships, innovating youth engagement & leveraging citywide efforts.
The San Francisco Youth Commission wrote a resolution in spring 2005 urging Mayor Newsom to create a citywide planning body to improve the outcomes for disconnected young people who could not access services from the Children’s Funds because they were over 18. The effort highlighted the unmet needs for 18-24 year olds who were emancipated foster youth, had been involved in the justice system, were young parents, had a disability, were immigrants or had not completed high school.
The group began meeting in March 2006 and after many meetings, and many months completed the report: Disconnected Youth in San Francisco: A Roadmap to Improve the Life Chances for Young People.
Opportunities at TAY SF
TAY SF Internships
The Transitional Age Youth Initiative seeks interns to help implement 16 diverse policy recommendations focused on improving outcomes for the city’s disconnected young adults, aged 16-24.
We seek qualified and experienced graduate students to work on policy issue projects in education, workforce development, housing and health/wellness. Graduate students in public policy, social welfare, public health, public administration, and nonprofit management and other related disciplines with experience and knowledge of youth and young adult policies are encouraged to apply.
Stipends are available, depending on scope of work and…
About the Staff
Rachel Antrobus
Rachel Antrobus has spent the last ten years advocating for system change in youth workforce, foster care, homelessness, education, juvenile justice and youth civic engagement. …