Program areas at Genesee County Youth Corporation
Basic center- reach reach serves 10-17 year old runaway, homeless and Youth at-risk of homelessness and their families who are experiencing crisis situations and need assistance. Services include 24-hour telephone or face to face crisis intervention, 90-day prevention counseling, information and referral, and 21-day emergency shelter, aftercare counseling and follow-up care. Designed with a goal of family reunification, all services are provided to Youth voluntarily.
Street outreach the street outreach team's focus is aimed at street Youth, adults, and families who are both uninformed and in need of basic assistance such as food, clothing, case management, safety planning, hygiene needs, transportation and/or emergency and long-term shelter care. Street outreach makes regular contact with schools, law enforcement, community organizations, local businesses, the faith community, and health care providers with the goal of ending homelessness.
Transitional living - traverse place traverse place provides transitional living opportunities in a supervised congregate facility and through scattered site graduated housing. Program services are built upon four foundational principals - housing, education, employment and life skills. Youth ages 17 through 21 may remain in shelter and/or in the graduated housing for a combined period of up to 21 months with the goal of graduation to permanent, safe, and stable housing.