Five Decades of Change
For 50 years, Outside In has supported youth experiencing homelessness and other marginalized people as they move toward improved health and self-sufficiency. Driven to meet the changing needs of those it helps, the agency has created an all-inclusive and integrated system of cutting edge and sometimes controversial wraparound services that has transformed and saved thousands of lives over the years.
Today, Outside In’s clinic, a Federally-Qualified Health Center and youth department provide a comprehensive array of services to its patients and participants, including:
- primary health care
- syringe exchange
- access to basic needs
- tattoo removal
- case management
- recreational activities
- meals
- LGBTQIA+ programs
- housing
- substance use treatment
- behavioral health
- education
- job training
We believe…
- In dignity, hope, and resiliency.
- In innovation.
- Our clients can get through current challenges.
- Young people need trusting adults to thrive.
- In meeting people where they are.
- In a strengths-based approach.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Outside In recognizes that our clients and employees have unique experiences rooted in and affected by race, culture, gender and gender identity, age, belief systems, social class and income, sexual orientation, physical ability, and other aspects of individual identity. We acknowledge the beauty, strength, and opportunities that come from such diversity as well as the destructive and pervasive consequences that come from prejudice and oppression. We are deeply committed to dismantling overt and covert oppression, building personal and institutional diversity, and fostering inclusiveness.