Youth Organizations

CAPSTONE City of Refuge

www.fccidaho.com/capstone.html The Children, Adolescent, and Parent Skills Training (CAPSTONE) Center is a comprehensive program providing behavioral, social, medical, and life-skills training to at-risk children ages 4 through 14. CAPSTONE\'s comprehensive treatment program assists in the development of behavioral skills for meeting the challenges of everyday life. Each child has a tailor-made treatment program which allows for psychiatric evaluation and measured improvement. Parents are encouraged to become actively involved. Children receive training in anger management, social skills, motivational and daily living skills. They also undergo self-worth training and physical exercise. At-risk children are generally diagnosed with one of the following: ADD/ADHD, Conduct Disorder, Depression, Bipolar Mood Disorders, Learning Disorders, Mild Autistic Disorders, or Aspergers. CAPSTONE works in conjunction with juvenile, probation, homeless shelters, school districts and other agencies. CAPSTONE is available to parents with limited financial resources.

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Coccon House

www.cocoonhouse.org

Cocoon House fosters personal growth and healthy relationships to strengthen and empower at-risk and homeless youth and their families. Cocoon House has been Snohomish County\\\'s only resource exclusively serving homeless and at-risk youth age 13-17. We believe that every child deserves a home and the opportunity to achieve his or her fullest potential. Cocoon House provides youth housing and other critical community based services to youth, caregivers, families and the community. Cocoon House houses more than 230 youth each year. In addition, through outreach, prevention, and education efforts they reach over 1,000 youth, parents, and community members annually.

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Covenant House Georgia

www.covenanthouse.org

Covenant House Georgia is the only program of its kind in Georgia serving homeless kids every night between midnight and 8:00 AM. Five nights a week, our Outreach Van visits some of the most distressed neighborhoods of Atlanta, seeking out sexually exploited youth, drug dealers, and gang members in the hopes of saving a life. Since opening the Center on Broad Street in 2006, more than 10,000 young people have walked through the doors looking for assistance with shelter, food, clothing, education, and employment. Every day young men and women have come here in search of crisis counseling, employment, a GED diploma, or a safe place to sleep. Our Outreach program is the only program in Georgia that sees between 50-200 kids per month. Youth Served Every Year: 1,880

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DREAM CENTER L.A.

www.dreamcenter.org

www.dreamcenter.org The Los Angeles Dream Center is a non-profit outreach dedicated to helping inner-cities. Our ministry provides hope by meeting both tangible and spiritual needs. We provide food, clothing, shelter, life rehabilitation, education and job training, Biblical training and much more through our 273 ministries and outreaches. We reach thousands of hurting and needy children, families and adults across all races and cultures each week. The Dream Center strives to help solve moral decay, crime, drugs, gangs, homelessness and poverty epidemics that exist in our nation’s inner-cities. The vision of the Dream Center is to see thousands of hurting people come to know a new life through the efforts of our staff, volunteers, and recently rehabilitated individuals whose lives have been dramatically changed. Made up of many races, nationalities, and cultures, the Dream Center has an open door policy, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year.

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Family Promise of North Idaho

www.familypromiseni.org

www.familypromiseni.org. Family Promise of North Idaho empowers families in need to become self-sufficient. We serve families by providing temporary housing, employment and housing assistance, as well as individual and family counseling. Family Promise was founded on the belief that Americans are compassionate people who want to make a difference. Our promise is to link those in need with those who want to help. This site is dedicated to families without homes, and to the religious congregations and individuals that reach out to them with compassionate assistance

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Giving Children Hope

www.gchope.org

Giving Children Hope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty (domestically and abroad) through disaster relief, health and community development, vocational training and advocacy. Giving Children Hope is privileged to work with diverse individuals and communities both locally and around the world, supplying projects that address and focus on the needs of children and serve the poor. GCHope works to promote family sustainability, economic independence, and self-sufficiency so that children may grow in stable environments. GCHope also plays a role in the development and rehabilitation of under resourced clinics, hospitals, and orphanages. Our supplies mobilize organizations so that they can focus on implementation; this empowers communities to reach those caught in hopelessness and work towards self-sustainability.

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Green Chimneys

www.greenchimneys.org Green Chimneys is the nationally renowned, non-profit organization with a mission of restoring possibilities and creating futures for children with emotional, behavioral, social and learning challenges through educational, therapeutic and outreach services, while providing care for animals and nature, thereby promoting a philosophy of dignity and worth for all living things. Each year, Green Chimneys\' restoration system gives hundreds of children and their families the tools that enable them to positively experience their youth, regain a sense of self-worth and create hope for the future as independent, positive and productive adults. Green Chimneys School has nearly 200 students: 100 in the residential program, and more than 80 in the day school.

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Home of the Innocents

Home of the Innocents serves 2,500 children and families in crisis each year, and the need is escalating daily. The Home is working at maximum occupancy, and with some medically fragile children on the waiting list for five years, the need for additional space has never been more critical. Home of the Innocents is the state’s largest emergency placement center. That means our staff is ready 24 hours a day to offer a safe place for children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, abandonment or neglect. Whether a child stays with us a few days or for years, he or she becomes part of our family. Our children are given individual treatment plans, which include using the latest in one-on-one therapies.

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HomeBase Youth Services

www.hbys.org

HomeBase Youth Services is an Arizona-based organization founded in 1991 to address the growing needs of at-risk and homeless youth age 21 and younger. The programs and services we offer include Street Outreach, Mobile Medical Outreach, Employment and Life Skills Training, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care, a Resource Center, a Transitional Living Program, and an Independent Living Program. HomeBase Youth Services provides real life solutions to the physical, mental and emotional abuse and neglect these youth have suffered for far too long. Programs include: Street Outreach Program, Mobile Medical Outreach Services, Youth Resource Program, Transitional Living Program, Employment and Education Services, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and an Independent Living Program.

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KidsPeace

www.kidspeace.org

Giving hope, help and healing to children facing crisis since 1882. KidsPeace is dedicated to serving the behavioral and mental health needs of children, preadolescents and teens. KidsPeace provides a unique children’s psychiatric hospital; a comprehensive range of specialized, intensive and therapeutic residential treatment programs; accredited educational services; and a variety of foster care and community-based treatment programs to give hope, help and healing to kids facing crisis. KidsPeace offers services in Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

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NCO Youth & Family Services

www.ncoyouth.org

The goal of the homeless youth program at NCO Youth & Family Services is to ensure that homeless youth make a healthy and permanent transition to financial self-sufficiency and independent living. NCO Transitional Housing Programs service homeless young adults struggling with maintaining independence and who currently have no place to reside. The apartments in both locations offer case management seven days per week to provide a safe, secure, and supportive environment. Residents can reside in either program for a period of 4-24 months, with flexibility to ensure the achievement of the program goal-Independence.

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Open Door Mission

www.opendoormission.org Open Door Mission would be very interested in partnering with you to serve inner city children and youth that are homeless and/or living in poverty. The Open Door Mission provides safe shelter for approximately 100 children and youth and their families, nightly and serves more than 300 children in after- school and Day Camp programs. Thank you for this opportunity. Each day, Open Door Mission Ministries provides 320 men, women, and children with safe shelter beds, serves more than 1,500 hot nutritious meals, and provides preventive measures to more than 250 families living in poverty.

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PSKS

www.psks.org

Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets provides support and services to Seattle area homeless youth and young adults. Their committed efforts are targeted at providing stepping stones to transition youths from the streets to self sufficiency and productive roles in the community. PSKS is a unique organization that uses the talents and experiences of homeless and formerly homeless young people to develop service strategies for their peers. Our committed efforts are targeted at providing stepping stones to transition youths from the streets to self-sufficiency and productive roles in the community. Our mission is driven by the belief that there is potential in every person and a solution for every cause.

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SAFY

www.safy.org “Fostering an environment that positively impacts the lives of youth and their families…whether they are with us for an hour or a lifetime.” SAFY provides treatment foster care, adoption, and family services with offices in the 8 states of Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. Founded in 1984, Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth believes that every child is entitled to a caring and stable living environment. Many children in our nation are abused, neglected and victimized and left without loving parents to care for them. SAFY focuses on these difficult-to-place children, by helping to provide stable homes in order that they may grow into healthy and happy adults. SAFY envisions the day when . . . every child is part of a loving family and is able to reach his or her greatest potential.

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Salt Lake County Division of Youth Services

www.youth.slco.org

For more than 30 years, Youth Services has been serving youth and their families in the Greater Salt Lake area. Over the years we have expanded to include shelter care for youth from birth to age 18, counseling and substance abuse services, after school programming and job training skills, and around the clock availability and crisis therapy. Whether a youth is with us one day, a month or more, our goal is to make an impact in their life.

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ShelterCare Family Housing Program

www.sheltercare.org Homeless families with children find shelter and support at Family Housing Program. The programs serve families in 21 individual apartment units for up to 60 days. Some families are allowed to stay for up to 6 months to increase their stability and long-term success. The wait for shelter is often between eight and twelve weeks long. ShelterCare also has a Transitional Services program that assists families in achieving their goals in a 2 year period of time. Additionally, ShelterCare has a Homeless Prevention Program which is designed to give a one time rental assistance with up to 9 months of support services to families who have not yet lost their housing.

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Skowhegan

www.yfsing.org

Youth & Family Services, Inc., is a licensed professional agency providing quality treatment for individual and family problems including substance abuse services. Additionally Youth & Family Services provides home based services, including short term intensive counseling and services directed families at risk of child removal by the Department of Health and Human Services, Children\'s Case Management, Community Case Management, and Outreach to homeless youth. Halcyon House, our homeless youth shelter, serves children between the ages of 10 and 17. Skohegan has over 400 youth currently receiving help from their organization.

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StandUp For Kids

standupforkids.org STANDUP FOR KIDS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1990 to help rescue homeless and at-risk youth. The mission of STANDUP FOR KIDS is to help homeless and street kids. This mission shall be carried out by a national volunteer force whose on-the-streets outreach efforts will find, stabilize and assist homeless and street kids in their efforts to improve their lives. The organization's mission shall also be furthered through deterrence and resource programs provided in schools and via the Internet. All facets of this mission shall be guided by the mandate that our volunteers shall tell kids they care about them and then, at every turn, prove it. In addition to helping homeless and at-risk youth with immediate necessities such as food, clothing, shelter and personal hygiene, STANDUP FOR KIDS offers a wide array of services, including: assistance in finding housing; education assistance; vocational development; counseling; health services; transportation to self-help meetings; and legal assistance. Volunteers also conduct life-skills training, covering such areas as budgeting, banking, apartment cleanliness and safety, shopping and cooking, nutrition, and hygiene. Laundry services and lunch and snack facilities are made available, as well as mail and message services. STANDUP FOR KIDS is grateful to have been recognized by both the George Bush and Bill Clinton administrations, the U.S. Justice Department, US Supreme Court, Congress Women, Senators, the Colorado Secretary of State and the Arizona Governor's Office for Children. In addition, the organization has received the JCPenney "Golden Rule Award" and various Corporate and Community Service Awards.

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Teen Challenge of Arizona

www.azteenchallenge.org Teen Challenge of Arizona pledges to make a difference in the lives of those who struggle with life-controlling problems. In our residential facilities, six primary phases have been established in order for participants to complete the program.. They are: Basic Educational Presentation, Crisis Intervention, Interview, Induction, Training, Re-entry. Their program helps the youth learn to work through problems with a correct attitude and positive actions and reactions. Teen Challenge helps the at-risk youth with their scholastic education and make plans for their future.

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The Dream Tree Project

www.dreamtreeproject.org The DreamTree Project is a 501(c)(3), non-profit, community-based organization for homeless, abused, and neglected youth from New Mexico and the surrounding region. We opened our doors in November 2000 with our Transitional Living Program. It is now 2009 and we have doubled our capacity to house even more youth, with the opening of our Casitas, for youth who are ready for more independent living. Our Transitional Living Program helps support youth (ages 16-24 years) while they learn life skills and then transitions them to their own housing.

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VOA Volunteers of America, Dakotas

www.voa-dakotas.org

“We\'ve Been Around, We\'ll Be Around, You Can Count On Us.” For 88 years, Volunteers of America, Dakotas has been serving those who need us the most. Troubled youth, families without childcare, those struggling against addiction, and the adolescent who can\'t return home, can all turn to our supportive and empowering programs. Volunteers of America’s New Start for Adolescents is a 24-hour residential treatment program for pregnant and parenting adolescents and their children, referred by the Departments of Corrections and Social Services, Human Services, Court Services, or the private sector. New Start provides a safe, structured, therapeutic and staff-secured environment.

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Washington Women's Shelter, Inc

www.womens-shelter.com The commitment of Washington Women’s Shelter, Inc. is to strive for the personal growth and development of all women. We see the root cause of violence against women as lying in the institutionalized subservience of women, and seek to support and involve in our program battered women and victims of assault. Washington Women’s Shelter, Inc. was established to provide supportive services on issues pertinent to women of all backgrounds to promote self-dependency and meet expressed needs. We seek to help women assume control over their lives and to constantly define violence as an unacceptable means of control under any circumstances. Programs: Safe Shelter, Empowerment counseling, legal advocacy, Support groups, and Children’s programs.

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YESS Youth Emergency Shelter Society

www.yess.org

The YESS shelter has 16 beds and the program is for youth aged 15 – 18. Over 500 youth access the Shelter every year – some only for a night or two, others consistently. YESS staff make every effort to encourage youth to explore more stable, long-term solutions.

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Youth Service Center - Aunt Martha's

www.auntmarthas.org Aunt Martha's offers a variety of programs and services designed to provide a full continuum of care for children, teens and families in Illinois. These resources form a spectrum of care that includes: child welfare, community based, healthcare, juvenile justice and prevention services. The organization has 24 hour care with more than 200 youth and many of our other programs work with the children between 8-12 hours per day each week. We have 11 residential group homes where teenagers live and several programs with youth that are 0-21 years of age. Aunt Martha's has services in nine counties across northeastern Illinois and cares for over 39,000 Illinois residents. "The world will give up on you ... but Aunt Martha's won't."

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