MB Treasures provides youth with a safe, welcoming, and accessible place to connect with essential resources, compassionate support, referrals, advocacy, and opportunities that help them overcome barriers and move toward lifelong success.
Every young person deserves a place where they can feel heard, respected, supported, and safe enough to let their guard down.
MB Treasures creates welcoming, accessible spaces where youth can express what they’re experiencing without fear of judgment or dismissal. Through compassionate support, advocacy, mentorship, referrals, and community connections, we meet young people where they are and help connect them with the resources they need to move forward.
A safe, welcoming, and accessible space where youth can walk in, connect with support, receive immediate help, and access essential resources, referrals, advocacy, and guidance.
A welcoming space where young people can walk in, connect with trusted adults, receive guidance, and access resources related to mental health, crisis support, referrals, advocacy, and everyday needs.
Bringing support directly into Chicago and surrounding suburbs, Mobile Youth Outreach helps connect young people with essential needs, resources, referrals, advocacy, and community support when and where they need it.
A hands-on learning experience that introduces mentees to service, dining etiquette, hospitality, responsibility, and opportunities to learn while earning.
Sometimes a young person needs someone to listen. Sometimes they need immediate help, an advocate, or simply someone who can connect them with the right resource.
MB Treasures helps youth navigate those moments through direct support, referrals, advocacy, and community resource connections.
Mental health and crisis-support referrals
Trauma-informed and grief support
Mentorship and personal guidance
Court advocacy and support
Housing and community resources referrals
Parenting and substance-use program referrals
Transportation assistance when available
Life-skills and personal-development opportunities
When a need extends beyond what MB Treasures provides directly, our goal is to help connect young people with trusted professionals and community resources that can support their next step.
MB Treasures grew from Simone Boyd's deeply personal experience with the impact violence can have on young people, families, and communities. After losing her niece to gun violence in 2013, Simone eventually turned years of grief into a commitment to create something meaningful for youth—a place to go, people to turn to, and greater access to the support and opportunities that can make a difference. Today, that commitment continues through outreach, mentorship, advocacy, resources, and community connection.
Supporting young people takes a community. MB Treasures works to build connections with mentors, educators, service providers, faith leaders, local businesses, parents and caregivers, community organizations, and other professionals who share a commitment to helping youth thrive. Through those relationships, MB Treasures can help young people navigate resources, connect with appropriate services, and find support beyond what any one organization can provide.
Whether you’re a young person looking for support, a parent or caregiver searching for resources, a professional making a referral, or a community organization interested in partnering with us, we’re here to start the conversation.
