Nexus Youth & Family Services

Youth services - programs and activities that promote good health, well-being, positive leadership skills, and substance abuse prevention. Independent living program services are provided to current and former child welfare and juvenile probation foster youth to achieve self-sufficiency prior to and after leaving the foster care system. Youth advocates provide mentoring, information and referral, and assistance in obtaining community resources for at-risk children and youth. The student assistance program offers support for school staff, child care providers, and community members to help students access mental health and wellness services. Additional support is provided directly to students and their families to help them obtain needed resources and therapeutic interventions.

Therapeutic services - includes child abuse treatment (chat) intensive psychotherapy counseling, assistance with crime victim services, and criminal justice system support for child victims. Additional programs include aggression replacement training, parent child interaction therapy, supervised visitation, communication courses for teens and parents, and mobile response support services for current and former foster youth and their caregivers.

Casa - provides life-changing opportunities for volunteers to become trained court appointed special advocates for children who are under the jurisdiction of the court due to abuse or neglect.