The Harbour’s vision is to provide program opportunities that guide and empower youth to their fullest potential through safe housing, critical emergency interventions, positive mentoring, and resource services. Stable housing in tandem with educational and vocational support, life skills training, and intensive financial literacy support, coupled with the mentoring and nurturing support of caring adults are hallmarks of each program. Unlike adults who become homeless, most homeless youth have never lived on their own; youth of this age typically lack the skills or financial resources to begin living independently and sustain a path to independence and housing stability. 

The Harbour provides youth-centric, trauma-informed programs to guide and empower female identifying youth to achieve their fullest potential through safe shelter and transitional housing, critical emergency interventions, and compassionate mentoring. Serving a multi community footprint of thirteen of the thirty-one suburban Cook County townships and fifty-one separate local communities, The Harbour advocates for and responds to the needs of locked out, runaway, and unaccompanied homeless female and transgender youth, ages 12-23 years.