Longtime Duluth youth center saved from abrupt closure June 25, 2021 — 7:56pm Text size Copy shortlink: DULUTH – Neighborhood Youth Services, a nearly 30-year-old pillar of Duluth's Central Hillside neighborhood, will continue working with kids uninterrupted after another nonprofit stepped in this week to save it from closure. Duluth's Life House scrambled quickly following the news that the Hills Youth and Family Services was not only ending its residential behavioral health services, but also its day treatment and community offerings, including Neighborhood Youth Services (NYS). "This is a critical site" for a neighborhood dealing with economic, racial and health disparities, Life House Executive Director Jordon Johnson said of NYS, housed in the Washington Recreation Center, 310 N. 1st Av. W.