Hights Inc

Therapeutic Counseling Services - HIGHTS engaged 155 youth in therapy services in 2023-24 This includes youth seen through outpatient therapy services, group therapy services, intensive in-home treatment, and addictions treatment. HIGHTS provides these services in different capacities in the seven westernmost counties of Western North Carolina. This region is rural and extremely underserved with therapeutic services due to limited resources and a lack of providers.

Workforce Development- This program serves youth ages 16-24 in Jackson, Macon, Swain, Graham, Clay, and Cherokee Counties that have dropped out of school or are otherwise disengaged. This program helps participants overcome boundaries and lack of resources to assist youth in attaining their GEDs, engaging in the workforce and attaining a meaningful credential. This program provides assistance with gas mileage, childcare and other emergency needs that get in the way of underserved youth receiving a credential or diploma. HIGHTS provides eight weeks of paid work experience in a workplace, so youth gain valuable and meaningful work experience and often find employment with the same company they do this work experience with. HIGHTS Workforce development served 232 participants in 2023-24