Harry Wilson is an Associate Commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth and Families.  He is charged with leading the Family and Youth Services Bureau.  The bureau provides national leadership on youth issues and assistance to help community-based organizations provide effective, comprehensive services for youth in at-risk situations.  Annually, the bureau serves over 630,000 homeless youth and their families in over 700 programs.    The bureau is the lead for an agency wide, crosscutting initiative on Positive Youth Development and also serves on the Inter-agency Council on Homelessness.

FYSB is also the lead division for the Health and Human Services component of the President’s Mentoring Initiative.  The bureau has oversight responsibilities for faith-based and community-based programs that provide mentoring services for children of prisoners.

FYSB also administers Family Violence Prevention Services  through state formula grants and a network of quality assistance providers serving women and children who experience Domestic Violence with 2,200 shelters across the nation.

Most recently FYSB has become the new home of Title V abstinence education grants, which provides abstinence funding to states to encourage youth to make healthy choices and promote abstinence.

As one of the Administration’s leads on Positive Youth Development, Harry has taken his lifelong experience of working and advocating for youth and also as an urban faith-based youth leader and promoted youth empowerment and engagement strategies across the Federal government.