About

The Latino/a Youth Collective of Indiana, Inc.

Provides resources and opportunities for youth to engage in personal and community development through critical pedagogy, grassroots organizing, and collective action.

The Latino/a Youth Collective of Indiana, Inc. (LYC) began as a dropout prevention program called El Puente Project. El Puente was initiated in 2000 in Indianapolis, Indiana as a university-based initiative of the Center for Urban and Multicultural Education (CUME), an academic unit in the School of Education at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).