Company Profile
UTEC
Company Overview
UTEC, founded in 1999 and based in Lowell, was the result of an organizing movement driven by young people to develop their own teen center in response to gang violence.
Today, nationally recognized as a model youth development agency, UTEC's mission and promise is to ignite and nurture the ambition of our most disconnected youth to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success. We serve youth from both Lowell and Lawrence, MA.
UTEC’s model begins with intensive street outreach to reach youth “where they are.” Each target youth (16-24, out of school, and gang or criminally involved) receives up to three years of intensive case management. UTEC provides workforce training through our social enterprises and alternative education through onsite HiSET (GED) preparation. Social justice and civic engagement are embedded throughout, with special emphasis in our organizing and policymaking work, locally and statewide. UTEC’s primary outcomes are: crime reduction, employability, and educational attainment.