In 2007, Oasis Center, STARS, and United Neighborhood Health Services began renovation on a building destined to be a national model of collaboration and innovation.

The Nashville Youth Opportunity Center will serve thousands of young people facing real challenges throughout Middle Tennessee each year through a continuum of more than 30 different youth programs offering health care, job assistance, counseling, education support, emergency residential services, college counseling, youth leadership opportunities, and even a youth-run business—all under one roof.

Everything about this exciting collaboration, from its central and MTA accessible location to the youth friendly architecture to the shared back-office supports that will help reduce operating expenses, is being designed to ensure that all young people in Nashville and surrounding counties have access to the opportunities and support they need to be ready for school, ready for work, ready for life.

The Nashville Youth Opportunity Center will house six different youth organizations—all under one roof— that  offer programs collectively reaching youth in 82 different schools, as well as the hundreds of youth living on the streets of Nashville.

Other notable features include:

• Tennessee's first drop-in center serving runaway and homeless youth.
• Nashville's only long-term Transitional Living center for homeless youth between the ages of 17 and 21 including ten dorm-style rooms with bath facilities and a shared kitchen and living area.
• Nashville's only dedicated Youth Clinic, operated by United Neighborhood Health Services.
• Nashville's only therapeutic counseling center focusing exclusively on adolescents.
• A Youth Job Center operated by the Nashville Career Advancement Center.
• MNPS classroom serving homeless youth residing at Oasis Emergency Shelter.
• College Access center offering full support to youth interested in post-secondary education.
• Computers with internet access
• A 2,000-square-foot conference center and a resource library.
• “Teenedge Tees”— a youth run screen-printing business benefiting street outreach services for homeless youth.
• Covered MTA stop located directly in front of building.
• “Green building,” including geothermal HVAC
• Shared support services for building tenants, including technology coordinator and receptionist, as well as a shared staff lunchroom.