M F Place Inc

The housing and wellness program provides youth with developmentally and culturally appropriate health and mental health services, supporting the goal of young people's pursuits of establishing safety, connecting with community, cultivating wellness and engaging in growth and opportunities supporting their long term stability and wellness. Master level clinical social workers conduct assessments and counseling to address issues such as mental health distress and emotional regulation, substance use, and interpersonal violence. Using a clinical social work approach, in addition to supporting a young person's immediate well-being, the social workers also provided the necessary advocacy and assistance with securing identification documents and public benefits to ensure a young person's engagement with the regional housing support system. Additionally, the triage case managers engage in case management, crisis intervention, animal companion support, personal identity document acquisition and support to access legal services. Impact highlights include: one of every two young persons enrolled in case management with 210 youth accessing mental health support. As a housing access center, our services are pivotal support for youth engaging in the coordinated engagement system. Four hundred and fifty two young people engaged in housing support. Working in the community context of too few housing opportunities for young people, we successfully supported and advocated for 157 young people who secured emergency housing and 50 who secured long term housing.

The transformative education is a vital part of our continuum of care providing youth with creative arts programming, education, and employment readiness services. Through workshops, one-on-one sessions, and progressively more intensive programming, the transformative education program aims to equip youth with marketable skills, encourage positive behaviors and create alternative ways for staff to build rapport with youth who are reluctant to access more intensive, higher commitment programming. Impact highlights include: one in three young people engaged in creative workshops. Two hundred and twelve youth engaged in employment services and 40 engaged in education sessions.

The intake and crisis care program provides youth with clinically, culturally and developmentally appropriate services that include intake assessment, triage case management, crisis intervention, animal companion support, personal identity document acquisition and support to access legal services.