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Youth services is a field of practices within the social services sector in North America.Defined as "programs, activities, and services aimed at providing a range of opportunities for school-aged children, including mentoring, recreation, education, training, community service, or supervision in a safe environment," [1] youth services are a comprehensive series of strategies, activities ...
Youth Voice initiative to help young people influence adults and contribute to policies and problems that affect them; Communications to spread the word to media about young people as assets and resources. YSA has also been a long-time partner supporting the National Service Learning Conference, co-sponsored by the National Youth Leadership ...
Youth service refers to non-military, intensive engagement of young people in organized activity that contributes to the local, national, or world community. Youth service is widely recognized and valued by society, with minimal or no compensation to the server.
Youth Volunteer Corps,(YVC), is a non-profit service organization operating throughout the United States and Canada that was created to introduce, encourage, and support the spirit of volunteerism in youth ages 11 to 18 through consistent, well-organized volunteer opportunities.
The Runaway and Homeless Youth Program (RHYP) was first established in 1974 through passage of the Runaway Youth Act. [3]: ch. 5 The RHYP administers the National Runaway Safeline, a 24 hour hotline for adolescents in crisis, which provides educational resources and technical assistance, [4] and the National Clearinghouse on Runaway and Homeless Youth, founded in 1992, and which serves as a ...
ThereforeGo Ministries (formerly known as Youth Unlimited, [2] the American Federation of Reformed Young Men's Societies, [3] [4] the Young Calvinist League, and then the Young Calvinist Federation) [5] is a Christian youth ministry for short-term mission trips in the United States and Canada that was formed in September 1919. [4]
In 2003 Bruce Jackson, a 19-year-old boy who weighed only 45 pounds was found eating food out of a garbage can in Collingswood, New Jersey. The parents, authorities allege, were starving him and under feeding the other children. In October 2005, lawyers for the four boys settled their lawsuit against New Jersey for $12.5 million.
NN4Y members work with their neighborhood youth, adults, associations, and regional and state networks of youth workers to provide street-based services, emergency shelter, transitional living programs, counseling, and social, health, educational and job-related services to over 2.5 million youth each year.