News & Publications

NEWSLETTERS

• New Podcast: YouthPowerMN℠ Retreat: Code of Conduct Conversation (2024)

• New Podcast: Listen, Learn, and Build in Community with YouthPowerMN℠ (2024)

• Creating a Community Around Youth with Principal Jamil Payton (2024)

• Launching Rewriting the Rules® Season 4 with Episode 1: A Conversation with Dr. Diana Brown (2024)

• 🎉CELEBRATE OUR BLACK YOUTH 🎉 (2024)

• SPYS' Youth Leaders Today & Tomorrow! (2024)

• VIDEO: Partner wSPYS & See What's Possible! (2024)

• THE POWER OF PLAY: If we want our kids to learn! (2024)

• LISTEN: Young People Help Us Do Better! (2024)

• SPYS’ Podcast “LIVE” Event Recording Part 3 Of 3, Audience Questions & Answers (2024)

• Season 3, Episode 3: PART 2: WE ARE LIVE With YOUTH AUTHOR MILES ASBERRY-WALLACE (2024)

• SPYS’ NBA Foundation Recognition & Minnesota Timberwolves’ MLK Day Game Celebration (2024)

• WE ARE LIVE! With Youth Author Miles Asberry-Wallace (2024)

• Season 3, Episode 1: L.O.V.E. Unapologetically With SPYS' YouthPowerMN℠ Leaders (2024)

• Be the Business Leader our BIPOC Youth Deserve ft. Frederick Bw'Ombongi (2023)

• Mothers as Loving Experts: Chakita “Kita” Lewis and Eboun Wilbourn (2023)

• Mothers as Loving Experts, Part 2 of 3 (2023)

• Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts - Listen, Learn, Laugh in a NEW EPISODE of the #RewritingtheRules podcast (2023)

• Be The Adult You Wished You Had As A Teen Ft. Jamil Stamschror-Lott (2023)

• Be the Next Teacher of the Year with Dr. Lee-Ann Stephens (2023)

• Improving Outcomes for Youth with SPYS (2023)

• Want To Be THE ADULT YOU NEEDED As A Kid? (2023)

• SPYS Gives 125 Books (+ 140 Brownie Sundaes!) (2023)

• The Power of Perspective (2023)

• Celebrating the End of Season One: Thank You for Supporting the Rewriting the Rules℠ Podcast (2023)

• Want to do better by young people? Here’s How!! (2023)

• Black Business: In the Now & In the Future (2023)

• What Does It Mean To Live Fully & Free (2023)

• SPYS' LIT Party + The Super Power of Words with Crown Shepherd! (2023)

• The Political is Personal for Black Business Owners and Entrepreneurs (2023)

• Chaun Webster in an Exclusive Talk & Reading of his NEW BOOK ‘Wail Song’ (2023)

• Words of Wisdom from Black Entrepreneurs (2023)

• Uprooting Racism in the Food System - NEW EPISODE from #RewritingtheRules podcast (2023)

• Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts - Listen, Learn, Laugh in a NEW EPISODE of the #RewritingtheRules podcast (2023)

• Are you doing what brings you joy? THEY ARE! (2023)

• NEW EPISODE: Celebrating Black Women's Voices💞 (2023)

• Must See: Changing the Face of Generational Wealth! (2023)

• Rewriting the Rules - A New Podcast from SPYS (2023)

• Creating Truly Youth-Centric Organizations Workshop (2022)

• SPYS Board Online Fundraiser (2022)

• Remembering George Floyd (2022)

• We’re expanding our Team! (2021)

• PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: 2021 - 2025 Strategic Plan Rollout (2021)

• We Love Our Youth Champions! (2020)

• THANK YOU for investing in Black Youth! #GMTD20 (2020)

• New Program from St. Paul Youth Services! (2020)

• We’re Creating YouthPowerED Learning Opportunities. Join Us! (2019)

• Give to the Max Campaign 2019 (2019)

• You’re Invited: YES WE CAN CAN (2018)

• YouthPower Turns 1! (2018)
  

MEDIA COVERAGE

• Nonprofit Spotlight: St. Paul Youth Services (Charities Review Council, 2024)

• St. Paul based podcast is 'Rewriting the Rules' of youth justice (MPR, 2024)

• With new comic book, young Minneapolis author, artist makes his debut (Star Tribune, 2024)

• Women's Foundation grants nonprofit leaders, staff freedom to 'rest up' (Kare 11, 2023)

• $10K grants to help 40 female nonprofit leaders combat burnout, courtesy of Women's Foundation (Star Tribune, 2023)

• Annual Catholic Campaign for Human Development takes place Nov. 19-20 The Catholic Spirit, (2022)

• Otto Bremer Trust awards 158 grants totaling $11 million Otto Bremer Newsletter, (2021)

• 2019-2020 MINNESOTA WILD COMMUNITY REPORT (2020)

• Community Insight Session: Career and Future Readiness, Greater Twin Cities United Way, (2019)

• Yoga to youth: A step to reclaim health in black communities Blog.bluecrossmn.com (2019)

• St. Paul’s YouthPower program rows toward a better understanding of black teens, Pioneer Press (2019)

• St. Paul to steer charitable gambling revenue to low-income youth Star Tribune, (2019)

• Ordinance would gear charitable gambling funds to low-income neighborhoods in St. Paul Fox 9, (2019)

• St. Paul Youth Services 45th Anniversary WCCO, (2019)

• Stop trying to ‘save’ kids. Partner with them instead, Executive Director Tracine Asberry’s Op Ed, Pioneer Press (2019)

Press Releases

• St. Paul Youth Services (SPYS): 2024 Annual LIT Party

• St. Paul Youth Services (SPYS): Rewriting the Rules® Podcast “Live” Event Recording (2024)

• NBA Foundation announces newest round of grantees for Giving Tuesday(2023)

• St. Paul Youth Services Receives $30,000 "A Community Thrives" Grants From USA TODAY NETWORK and The Gannett Foundation (2021)

• St. Paul Youth Services Awarded for Creative and Sustainable Revenue Initiatives (2021)

• Creating Healthy Black Future: St. Paul Youth Services Partners with Urban Boatbuilders (2019)

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