Youthbuild Rockford

Comprehensive Community Solutions, Inc. (CCS) is a non-profit, tax-exempt agency founded in 1992. Originally formed to provide community-based services to individuals in the criminal justice system, the agency has grown to include a diversity of human service and affordable housing programs, giving life to its motto: Building Human Capital, Communities and Affordable Housing

About YouthBuild Rockford:

YouthBuild Rockford is a highly regarded program of Comprehensive Community Solutions, Inc. (CCS) that provides low-income young people who have dropped out of high school in the Rockford area with vital opportunities to become productive, self-supporting adults. YouthBuild serves out of school youth with academic education, vocational skills training, personal counseling, positive peer support, leadership development, job placement and follow-up support. In addition, participants build or rehabilitate housing for low-income families, and have produced 42 units of housing in Rockford since the program began.