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YSB knows that the best way to deal
with a crisis is to prevent it.
Project
Safe Place
In addition to crisis counseling
services, YSB operates Project Safe Place of Monroe and Greene Counties, a
community-wide outreach service for runaways and at-risk youth in crisis
situations. Throughout Monroe and Greene Counties, dozens of businesses
and community locations have volunteered to be part of the Safe Place
Network. These Safe Places are identified by the
bright yellow Safe Place logo.
A youth can enter a Safe Place at any time and ask for help. Within a few
minutes a trained volunteer arrives to meet the youth and assist in
defusing the crisis. In most cases, the volunteer brings the youth to the
Youth Services Bureau shelter where staff welcome the youth and provide
for his or her immediate needs--food, warmth, rest, etc. Together they
begin to work toward a solution.
Click here for a list of Safe Place sites in
Monroe and Greene Counties.
Monroe County Community
Prevention Coalition
Co-chairs Robin Donaldson and
Jennifer Staab
Housed at the Youth Services Bureau
The Monroe
County Community Prevention Coalition's work is centered on the goal of
maintaining and increasing effective community action regarding the
prevention of drug, alcohol, and tobacco
abuse.
Objectives:
• Lay a foundation that will guarentee the longevity of an effective Coalition.
• Develop a community consensus on a realistic prevention strategy
• Focus and intensify community awareness of the problem and its various aspects
• Integrate young leaders into the activities of the coalition
• Develop a corps of community-based prevention specialists and advocates
• Assist on coordination of prevention activities among other organizations
• Encourage and/or implement the most effective, proven prevention activities
• Offer moral, technical, and material support (whenever possible) to organizations
• Carry out any funded projects with effective action and fiscal responsibility
Click here to visit our Youth In Action website, designed
and maintained by youth in our community.
Residential
Services
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Prevention and Crisis
Management |Family Preservation
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