VISION: A community where youth of all genders and sexualities thrive. MISSION: LYG empowers QTBIPoC/LGBTQIA+ youth to grow into healthy and resilient leaders through community connection, life skills education, and social advocacy. VALUES: Be a Brave Space – Create a transformative community of courageous growth, encouraging our youth to expand self-awareness, develop new perspectives, increase empathy, and cultivate hope. Be Youth Centered – Rooted in the needs and interests of our youth and lead by their experience and direction. Be Community Minded – Instill a sense of respect and responsibility for our world and fellow humankind through service, advocacy and activism. Be Anti-Racist – Actively dismantle racism within ourselves, our organization, and our community.