| About Us |
YSS Mission:
YSS exists to provide prevention, education, treatment, and residential services to children, youth, and families; to advocate on their behalf, and to help them solve problems, grow, and be self-sufficient, responsible, contributing members of society. We strive to help children, youth, and families uphold dignity, build assets, and achieve independence.
YSS will build its future upon eight core competencies: Result-based outcome-driven services; Cultural competency; Family development; Community youth development; Promotion of self-responsibility and self-reliance; Community-based services; Volunteer services; and Building coalitions and collaborations.
Agency Goals:
Promote community youth development
Promote healthy lifestyle changes and improve public health
Promote and create youth/adult partnerships to improve the community
Promote healthy family relationships
Promote family life enrichment, parenting skill development, and self-sufficiency
Promote collaboration and coalition building among local agencies
Increase community awareness of youth issues and the need to increase youth assets
Advocate for community-based services and divert young people from the juvenile courts
Prevent early onset of substance use
Prevent the onset of tobacco use, eliminate exposure to second-hand smoke, and promote tobacco control
Prevent substance abuse, bullying, violence, child abuse, and delinquency
Prevent and resolve conflicts between parents and youth
Treat chemical dependency and dual diagnosis
Treat emotional and behavioral disorders in children and youth
Reduce the number of runaway and homeless youth and families
Reduce the number of teens in locked settings and in institutions
Reduce the number of teenage pregnancies
