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Provides youth violence prevention information.
The Division of Youth Services (DYS) is the state agency charged with the care and treatment of delinquent youth committed to its custody by one of the 45 Missouri juvenile courts. DYS programs are established to provide the mandated services enumerated in Chapter 219.016 in the Revised Statutes of the state of Missouri. These services include assessment, care and treatment, and education of all youth committed to its care. Toward this end, DYS operates treatment programs ranging from non-residential day treatment centers through secure residential institutions. Additionally, DYS administers the Interstate Compact on Juveniles, operates an accredited school program, and maintains a statewide statistical database of juvenile court referrals. DYS is administratively organized into one central office and five regional offices.
The Division of Youth Services (DYS) is the state agency charged with the care and treatment of delinquent youth committed to its custody by one of the 45 Missouri juvenile courts. DYS programs are established to provide the mandated services enumerated in Chapter 219.016 in the Revised Statutes of the state of Missouri. These services include assessment, care and treatment, and education of all youth committed to its care. Toward this end, DYS operates treatment programs ranging from non-residential day treatment centers through secure residential institutions. Additionally, DYS administers the Interstate Compact on Juveniles, operates an accredited school program, and maintains a statewide statistical database of juvenile court referrals. DYS is administratively organized into one central office and five regional offices.

Community-based prevention and intervention activities regarding violence, crime, and drug abuse. Chapter memberships available for adult men and women.

Resources for housing and jobs.

Services

Youth Violence Prevention
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
YSS prepares youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.

Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention

Services

Smoking/Vaping Cessation
Mental Health Information/Education
Youth Enrichment Programs
Smoking/Vaping Cessation Support
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Child Abuse Prevention
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Human Trafficking Prevention
Offers short and long term support for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. Youth violence prevention education coming soon.

Services

Youth Violence Prevention
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Dating Violence Prevention
Westside Health Authority (WHA)'s Good Neighbor Campaign is a community-based movement that connects neighbors, empowering them to share their abilities and talents, i.e., gifts, with one another in order to realize a shared vision of a healthy, loving, and supportive community. The Good Neighbor Campaign is a coming together of concerned citizens, local churches, neighborhood institutions, and youth with a mission to build a village by connecting with neighbors in the Austin community.

Services

Neighborhood Picnics
General Recreational Activities/Sports
Youth Violence Prevention
The Trauma Response and Intervention Movement (TR4IM) provides clinical, educational, social, and economic support to underserved families who may experience trauma in any of its forms, including but not limited to violence, unemployment, substance abuse, food insecurity, and other barriers to a stable and safe life. TR4IM is committed to serving trauma-exposed children and their families through a holistic, seamless network of community members and providers who promote increased awareness and take action to improve their quality of life. The first 8-Block Sector is located in North Lawndale on 16th to Ogden, and Central Park to Ridgeway.
The Youth Leadership Council is a group of youth leaders from neighborhood schools in Brighton Park and surrounding neighborhoods who are in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Youth leaders are trained on violence prevention, educational justice, immigrant rights and organizing. They meet weekly to help organize the Annual BPNC Youth Summit and to make a change in their community through awareness and Intervention.
Books Over Balls provides services to at-risk youth through cohort-based, after-school, education/vocational, and recreational programming. Specific youth performance goals include: engaging youth in meaningful and constructive activities, creating and presenting a coordinated, effective, empirically informed, youth gun violence prevention program, and establishing a positive "Youth Voice" within their community.
Offers a community based participatory justice process. Provides repair for victims and holds youth offenders accountable, while increasing their competencies and anchoring them to the community. It offers an alternative and supplement to the court based justice system.
Reimagine Youth Development takes a comprehensive approach to reducing firearm violence through targeted community investments. The program builds protective factors around youth of color to decrease risk-taking behaviors related to gun and community violence and works to strengthen the caregiver-child relationship among families who have been traumatized by community violence. Services provided include mentoring, support groups, counseling, youth leadership development, after-school services, and life skills education.
Kids Off The Block's (KOB) Mentoring Initiative champions a community-driven strategy to combat violence, crime, educational setbacks, and poor health outcomes. By offering targeted mentoring, violence prevention, skill enhancement workshops, health and wellness programs, parental guidance, and leisure activities, they aim to foster a safer, healthier, and more prosperous community.
The Community Healing Resource Center provides holistic healing services and trauma-informed care to people impacted by gun violence and other forms of violence, directly or indirectly. Their model not only serves victims of violent crimes and their families but the entire community as well. They know that everyone who resides in the community is impacted by the trauma of violence.

Services

Art Therapy
Youth Violence Prevention
Trauma Informed Organizational/Practitioner Perspective
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Psychological Assessment
Workplace Violence Prevention
In Person Crisis Intervention
Long Term Case/Care Management
UCAN's Violence Intervention and Prevention Services empowers young people to create life-changing opportunities that ensure safer futures. It offers coaching/mentoring, clinical case management, outreach opportunities and safe passage.
Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Morgan Park Inc. Community Healing Resource Center provides holistic healing services and trauma-informed care to people impacted by gun violence and other forms of violence, directly or indirectly, free of charge. The model not only serves victims of violent crimes and their families but the entire community as well. They can provide: 1) Trauma-Informed Clinical Case Management: Assistance accessing victim services and violence reimbursement application funds, crisis intervention, service coordination, safety planning, and self-care guidance. 2) Outpatient Clinical Counseling and Medication Management: Individual and family counseling services for adults and children. (Some services require insurance and/or Medicaid/Medicare). 3) Community Outreach and Education: Community education for trauma-informed care, safety and self-care guidance, and resiliency responses to trauma and violence. 4) Community Healing Advocacy: Public speakers bureau, legal advocacy, community memorials, and pop-up peace events.

Services

Long Term Case/Care Management
Youth Violence Prevention
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Trauma Informed Organizational/Practitioner Perspective
Family Counseling
Individual Counseling
Workplace Violence Prevention
Their community safer space operates on a drop-in basis on weeknights to provide a safe harbor for neighborhood youth and young adults to freely express themselves via dance and bolster community connectedness. In addition to providing a safer space at their center, they also actively intervene in violence within the community via the peer-to-peer violence prevention intervention program

Services

Youth Violence Prevention
Drop In Centers
Westside Health Authority (WHA) offers youth development programs for participants ages 14 through 24 focused on working with young residents to help them realize their potential in becoming agents of change within their community. Current programs include:Career Pipeline Programs/ApprenticeshipsWorkforce Development/Job Placement ProgramsViolence Prevention/Intervention Programs including Mentoring/Court AdvocacySubstance Use CounselingYouth Focus Groups (Roundtable Discussions)

Services

Youth Violence Prevention
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
Alcohol Use Disorder Counseling
Job Search/Placement
General Youth Employment Programs
Drug Use Disorder Counseling

Helps youth achieve positive growth and development, improve expectations and capabilities for future success, and avoid and/or reduce risk-taking behavior.

Offers academic enrichment, life skills education, parental involvement, recreational/cultural opportunities, positive adult mentors, and community service.

Services

Youth Enrichment Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
Life Skills Education
The Bridging the Gap program was developed to help facilitate an understanding between youth, law enforcement officials, and other community members. Through this program, the YMCA and community partners offer opportunities for dialogue through cafés, peace circles, and the exchange of photos and stories. The importance of healthy youth-police relationships is what continues to encourage the Y and local police departments to build and sustain effective partnerships through Bridging The Divide.
Lawrence Hall's 13-week JAC program offers a variety of supports to youth ages 14-24 who have been involved with the justice system. After a selective enrollment process, youth take part in group and/or individual therapies, mentoring, employment services, and educational support that help prevent the reoccurrence of high-risk behaviors and violence.
Young Men's Educational Network's (YMEN) comprehensive programs offer a wide range of educational support, mentoring from positive role models, spiritual and emotional guidance, vocational classes in the arts, career-based and entrepreneurial education, sports and recreational activities, family supportive services, and service learning to more than 300 students annually.

Services

Community Gardening
Food Pantries
Leadership Development
General Youth Employment Programs
Subject Tutoring
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
Youth Violence Prevention
General Household Goods Provision
Chicago Cultural Performing Arts & Media Alliance has developed a comprehensive violence prevention strategy where neighborhood institutions and community leaders come together to coordinate resources and services to make a safer community. Street outreach workers will be employed to mediate conflicts and prevent retaliatory violence between those who are at risk to commit or to become the victims of firearm violence. Victim services workers/advocates helps families and victims of violence recover from physical and emotional trauma caused by the violence by empowering them with skills, services, and opportunities. Case management services also offered.

Services

Youth Violence Prevention
General Crime Victim Assistance
The program aims to provide high-risk youth with evidence-based intervention services that reduce involvement in the criminal and juvenile system, increase school attendance, and when necessary, refer high-risk youth into therapeutic programs that address trauma recovery and other mental health improvements.
Offers students a safe, confidential way in which to share information that might help prevent suicides, bullying, school violence or other threats to school safety. Also offers support and resources for the following: - Abuse. - Bullying. - Depression. - Self injury. - Suicidal Thoughts.

Services

School Related Crime Reporting
Crisis Intervention Hotlines/Helplines
Bullying Prevention
Youth Violence Prevention
Cyberbullying Reporting
Text Based Counseling Services
Suicide Threat Reporting
Suicide Prevention Programs