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Discover what current college students said about their transition to college in our video room and consider becoming involved today as a YTN Ambassador.

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HELP PREPARE STUDENTS FOR GRADUATION!

The Youth Transition Network is a coalition of youth, college and military ministries working together to motivate, prepare and connect students to their next spiritual home.

YTN offers new preparation and motivation tools annually that churches and parents can use to encourage their students to connect for life.  Please view the video of college students talking about their transition. It is powerful and motivates students to seek out ministries and Christian roommates before they leave home.  

This video is part of a Be Prepared session that helps students address and discuss the reasons they leave the church and understand the challenges they will face when leaving home. 

We are asking parents to come alongside their youth leaders to host a one evening Be Prepared session in their home.

LiveAbove.com is our collaborative site designed for students. LiveAbove is designed to meet what research indicates are their three greatest challenges when Christian students leaving home:

  • Friendships
  • Roommates
  • Finding a church or ministry to fit into
Today LiveAbove has 4,700 ministries on over 3,000 campuses for students to interact with online.  Facilitating healthy, Christian connections significantly reduces the likelihood that the stress and temptations of a new environment will draw your students away from the Lord.

THE TRIANGLE OF DISCOURAGEMENT

It does not take much time interacting with teenagers to get the sense that many live behind a facade that portrays a distant, “who cares” attitude. This attitude is one that causes many parents sleepless nights as they begin to worry about what their teen is hiding.

In some instances it may be exactly what a parent typically fears, but not always. Our discussions with students revealed that the cause of the distance may not be based on the reasons we might naturally conclude.

Placing ourselves in our teens’ shoes, looking at their world, through their eyes, unveiled what I call “the Triangle of Discouragement.” This triangle appears to affect many of our students. Is this the sole reason for the distant, who cares attitude? Unlikely, but it is one that I believe plays a significant part in the distant facade.   >>>

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