Youth Services has operated the Family Junction since 1972. (Learn more...)
The SKIL program offers support for high school students who, for reasons beyond their control, live on their own without any financial or emotional help from parents. (Learn more...)
One of our most popular forms of community outreach has been the "Teen Service Board." Applications are being accepted now. Click here to learn more.
Also, we welcome your input about the needs of youth in Oklahoma County. Soon we will asking for your help with an online "Community Needs Assessment Form."
Outpatient Behavioral Health Services programs provide counseling to at-risk and high-risk youth and their families, and include the Youth Counseling Center and the Community At-Risk Services (CARS). The Youth Counseling Center has been offering assessment, crisis intervention, individual, family and group counseling, referral and follow-up services for community youth since 1972. The CARS program is designed for delinquent and pre-delinquent youth already involved with the juvenile court. Services include individual, family and group counseling, educational advocacy and paraprofessional services, such as mentoring and tutoring, to meet the needs of the youth and their families.
The Skills Education Program (SEP) is a state sponsored and funded delinquency prevention and early intervention program for first-time youthful offenders. The intent of the program is to provide a consequence for the youth's behavior and offer life skills education to the parents and their child to improve their communication, relationships, resolution of family problems by learning to make win-win decisions. Parents and children are referred by courts and are mandated to attend 16 hours of classes. At Youth Services we offer the classes in eight (8) two-hour segments two-evening a week over a four-week period. The SEP curriculum was adapted to include the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), a widely researched program used to teach communication and relationship skills. Classes are offered in English and Spanish.
In partnership with Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs, the CIC is a 24-hour juvenile processing and intervention center for youth arrested in Oklahoma County. By experiencing several consequences, such as booking, digital photography and fingerprinting, the youth get a glimpse of the realities of the juvenile justice system. The CIC also efficiently aids in getting the youth back to their parents as soon as possible, while allowing the police officers to quickly return to their duties.
JROC, which stands for Juvenile Re-entry of Oklahoma County, is a program that works with delinquent teens and their families. It began in December 2008 and was created through the cooperation of the Office of Juvenile Affairs and YSOC Inc., to build a program that would meet the needs for high risk youths. The goals of the program are to increase a youth's chance for successful integration into the community and to become a productive member of society.
We are a not-for-profit community organization that advocates, educates, intervenes and counsels youth and families to make a positive difference in their lives.
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