STARS, in partnership with other youth serving organizations, including Oasis Center, United Neighborhood Health Services and Nashville Career Advancement Center, will begin renovation on a building destined to be a national model of collaboration and innovation. The Nashville Youth Opportunity Center will serve thousands of young people facing real challenges throughout Middle Tennessee each year through a continuum of more than 21 different youth programs offering health care, job assistance, counseling, education support, emergency residential services, college counseling, youth leadership opportunities, and even a youth run business all under one roof.

Everything about this exciting collaboration, from its central and MTA accessible location to the youth friendly architecture to the shared back-office supports that will help reduce operating expenses, is being designed to ensure that all young people in Nashville have access to the opportunities they need to be ready for school, ready for work, ready for life.