Justice-Involved Youth Services

Our services are designed to:

• Reduce repeat justice-system involvement

• Support successful completion of probation and diversion requirements

• Improve educational engagement and achievement

• Strengthen family communication and relationships

• Increase accountability and healthy decision-making

• Promote emotional wellness and self-regulation

• Prepare youth for employment and independent living

• Connect youth and families with community resources

• Encourage leadership and positive community involvement

• Support a successful transition into adulthood

Our programs may support:

• Justice-involved youth

• Probation-involved youth

• Diversion-program participants

• Foster youth

• Opportunity youth

• Youth considered at risk of system involvement

• Transition-age youth and young adults

• Youth returning from juvenile hall

• Youth returning from residential placement

• Youth transitioning from foster care

• Youth experiencing school disengagement

• Youth involved with behavioral-health systems

• Families seeking structured community-based support

Monday—Friday
8:00AM—7:30PM
Saturdays
8:00AM—3:30PM

We help youth prepare for and manage the transition home following juvenile hall, residential treatment, foster-care placement, behavioral-health treatment, or another out-of-home setting.

Support may include re-entry planning, family preparation, goal development, resource coordination, school reintegration, and connections to community-based services.

Each youth’s needs, strengths, challenges, goals, family relationships, educational status, and existing services are considered when developing an individualized support plan.

Plans may address:

• Court or probation requirements

• Education and school attendance

• Family relationships

• Emotional and behavioral wellness

• Employment preparation

• Independent-living skills

• Community involvement

• Personal goals and future planning

Our case-management services help youth and families identify needs, establish goals, access services, coordinate care, and monitor progress.

Case managers may collaborate, with appropriate authorization, with parents, caregivers, probation officers, attorneys, schools, behavioral-health providers, social workers, mentors, and other approved service partners.

We help youth and families understand service recommendations, diversion plans, probation expectations, and court-ordered requirements.

Support may include:

• Compliance planning

• Appointment and service coordination

• Progress monitoring

• Community-resource referrals

• Community-service coordination

• Documentation of program participation

• Preparation for meetings with service-system partners

Our organization does not provide legal advice or replace the role of an attorney.

System involvement and out-of-home placement can affect trust, communication, family roles, and emotional safety. Our family-centered services help youth, parents, and caregivers rebuild relationships and develop healthier ways of communicating.

Services may include:

• Family reunification planning

• Parenting support and coaching

• Family communication education

• Conflict-resolution skills

• Healthy-boundary development

• Family-strengthening activities

• Referrals for counseling or therapeutic services when appropriate

We help youth reconnect with education and work toward academic success.

Support may include:

• School enrollment and re-enrollment

• Attendance planning

• Credit-recovery referrals

• Academic goal development

• School-meeting preparation

• IEP and Section 504 navigation support

• Connections to tutoring or educational programs

• College, vocational, and career exploration

Positive adult mentorship provides youth with encouragement, consistency, guidance, and opportunities to develop confidence.

Mentoring may focus on:

• Personal responsibility

• Goal-setting

• Leadership

• Decision-making

• Communication

• Self-advocacy

• Healthy relationships

• Community involvement

• Planning for adulthood

Employment-readiness services help youth explore career interests and prepare for the workplace.

Services may include:

• Career exploration

• Résumé development

• Job-search assistance

• Interview preparation

• Workplace expectations

• Professional communication

• Time-management skills

• Connections to workforce-development programs

• Vocational and educational referrals

Youth receive practical education to support independence, stability, and responsible adulthood.

Topics may include:

• Budgeting and financial literacy

• Banking and savings

• Time management

• Personal organization

• Communication

• Healthy relationships and boundaries

• Conflict resolution

• Self-advocacy

• Housing and transportation navigation

• Problem-solving and decision-making

• Personal health and wellness

Our educational programs help youth recognize emotional triggers, identify physical warning signs, develop coping strategies, communicate effectively, and make safer decisions.

Topics may include:

• Emotional awareness

• Anger management

• Stress management

• De-escalation skills

• Impulse control

• Accountability

• Conflict resolution

• Healthy communication

• Coping and self-regulation

• Decision-making and consequences

We provide age-appropriate education that promotes awareness, prevention, informed decision-making, and healthy lifestyle choices. Youth needing treatment or recovery services may be referred to qualified community providers.

We encourage youth to recognize their strengths and become positive contributors within their families and communities.

Opportunities may include:

• Leadership-development activities

• Civic engagement

• Volunteer service

• Community projects

• Peer mentorship

• Personal-development workshops

• Youth advisory opportunities

• Community-service coordination

When additional clinical support is needed, youth and families may be connected with qualified providers offering:

• Individual or family therapy

• Trauma treatment

• Substance-use services

• Support groups

• Recovery services

• Crisis intervention

• Psychiatric or medication services

When available and approved, we help youth and families identify transportation options and community resources needed to access appointments, education, employment, court-related services, and other supportive programs.

We listen to the youth’s perspective and include young people in planning their goals and services.

We recognize that parents, caregivers, and supportive family members can play an essential role in a youth’s progress.

We consider how trauma, loss, instability, discrimination, placement changes, and system involvement may affect behavior, relationships, learning, and decision-making.

We identify each youth’s abilities, interests, relationships, achievements, and potential—not only their challenges.

We help youth understand responsibility, consequences, personal choices, and the steps needed to repair harm and make healthier decisions.

With appropriate consent, we coordinate with families, probation departments, courts, schools, behavioral-health providers, child-welfare agencies, community organizations, and other approved partners.

We respect each youth’s culture, identity, family structure, community, experiences, and individual needs.

We welcome appropriate referrals from:

• Parents and caregivers

• Probation departments

• Juvenile and family courts

• Diversion programs

• Public defenders and private attorneys

• Child-welfare agencies

• Foster-care and resource-family programs

• Behavioral-health providers

• Schools and school districts

• Residential treatment programs

• Community-based organizations

• Faith-based organizations

• Youth-serving agencies

• Self-referring youth and families

Agency partnerships, service agreements, and coordinated programming may be available based on organizational capacity and community need.

Depending on each youth’s needs and level of participation, services are intended to support improvement in:

• Probation or diversion compliance

• School enrollment and attendance

• Academic engagement

• Emotional regulation

• Accountability and decision-making

• Family communication

• Employment readiness

• Independent-living skills

• Community involvement

• Connection to behavioral-health and supportive services

• Stability during re-entry

• Reduced risk of continued justice-system involvement