Youth Service Inc

Children & youth division (youth emergency services - yes) - yes provides a safe, stable, nurturing environment for youth between the ages of 12 and 18 who are either homeless or awaiting a return home or placement in another program. There are support services offered ranging from tutoring to onsite medical care, to sexual health workshops, planned recreational activities and life skills development. The goal is to provide support needed for teens to be successful in their next living environment.

Transportation services - the transportation services program provides transportation services for youth charged with minor offenses and who are deemed reliable to a parent or guardian. Youth services, inc. Has developed a status offender project that operates out of youth emergency service. The status offender project (sop) is a special unit that accepts status offender referrals from the philadelphia police in those instances where a parent or responsible adult is not available to retrieve the youth from police district facilities. The youth may be charge with a minor or status offense. The sop staff transport status offenders from police districts to their home or the shelter on an as needed basis.

Truancy prevention: our truancy prevention program works with students attending public and charter schools in the northwest area of philadelphia. Youth in the program are considered truant based on the number of absences recorded by their school. Parenting education - our enhancing parenting program is a parenting education and support group that meets in cycles of 12, two hour sessions. The interactive curriculum focuses on: improving parents' ability to identify, express, process and manage feelings; increase parents' understanding of child development; increase parents' understanding of the varied approaches to positive parenting including increase knowledge of nurturing and responsive parenting interactions.