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Youth Connections Network is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, who oversee our finances, programs, and long term strategy, ensuring every gift and every program is used responsibly to serve students well.

Executive Director: Justin Meyers

Justin Meyers is the Executive Director of Youth Connections Network. His own path, including time in the justice system as a teenager, shapes everything about how he leads today. That experience convinced him that young people can change course when someone shows up early, stays consistent, and helps without strings attached.

"Nobody fixes a crisis by waiting for it. You fix it by showing up early, before the crisis, before the kid gives up on themselves, and staying long enough for them to believe you mean it."

- Justin Meyers, Executive Director

For the last nine years, Justin has served the Springfield community as an Area Director, focused on student support, school partnerships, and mentorship. Youth Connections Network extends that work further, meeting the social service side of students' and families' needs, including food insecurity, unstable housing, and other everyday hardships.

Together, these roles let Justin serve a wider circle of students and families than either could reach alone. He also brings governance experience to YCN's leadership, having served three years as Board President for a local private school.

He's a husband and father of four, and, in addition to years of hands-on experience, is currently completing a Criminal Justice degree at Portland State University to deepen the academic and research grounding behind his work.

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