Friends of True Square Foundation, Inc. (FOTS) is a non-profit organization in the heart of Milwaukee. Located in the History King Drive Business District, FOTS advocates for advancing youth and families in Metro Milwaukee and has been a resource for community-based initiatives county-wide. FOTS will work collaboratively across sectors to support existing and emerging organizations that provide educational, vocational, and outreach to youth and young adults by:

• Fostering collective and collaborative relationships,
• Expanding the capacity of agencies to provide high-quality wholistic and family-based programs;
• Training and support for volunteer mentors;
• Ensuring quality standards in all program efforts;
• Providing vocational training and support in collaboration with employment and vocational training organizations;
• Multiplying and leveraging the human, financial, and in-kind resources dedicated to family in-home programming;
• Create sustainable relationships with community partners that share the same vision for a better city, county, and state.

Our shared mission is to increase both the quality and quantity of community-based relationships. This is accomplished through partnerships with educational and family support programs to improve their quality, effectiveness, and scale while coalescing stakeholders to expand engagement and investment locally and regionally.

The need for our work is clear. Academic support, mentoring, vocational training and rehabilitation, at its core, fosters the idea to our younger population that there are organizations and resources available to help them reach their goals and desires. Research of programs with strong youth outcomes has shown that the consistent use of quality standards and training for youth workers are key to delivering the high-quality programs that all youth need and deserve.