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Tim Maguire at a fall Board of Alders meeting.
Tim Maguire is stepping down as executive director of Youth Continuum after helming the homelessness services organization for a year and a half.
His departure marks Youth Continuum’s third shift in leadership since the start of 2023. His last day on the job will be Feb. 28.
Board Chair Alison Cunningham announced the news in an email on Friday.
“Of course, this is a loss for Youth Continuum but perhaps will also be a time of new opportunities,” Cunningham wrote. “The Board of Directors is working diligently with senior leadership of the organization and the Board of Clifford Beers Community Health Partners to ensure a smooth transition.”
“Our priority — as it always has been — is to keep youth experiencing homelessness and those at-risk safe,” she wrote, “and we will continue to do so, providing vital food, shelter and programs that help them transition to independent adults.”
Neither Cunningham nor Maguire were available to comment by publication time of this article.
Maguire took the reins of Youth Continuum first as an interim director in the summer of 2023 after the previous executive director, Mike Moynihan, passed away after only a handful of months in the role. Maguire was officially appointed executive director that autumn.
Maguire is departing for a soon-to-be-announced new job after 18 years in total at Youth Continuum. He started at the organization as a residential advisor at a group home and steadily rose to leadership positions, eventually obtaining his social work degree.
Youth Continuum was founded in 1966 and operates a spectrum of shelter, group home, and housing services with additional supports for teens and young adults aged 14 to 24.
The organization is now an affiliate of Clifford Beers Community Health Partners.
Under Maguire’s leadership, Youth Continuum opened a warming center for young adults aged 18 to 24.
The organization also continued to fundraise and redesign a proposed peer-led youth homeless shelter and social services hub at 924 Grand Ave.