Oasis Center

Residential and crisis services - provides immediate response to youth in crisis, who have run away or who are experiencing homelessness. These services include an emergency shelter for youth ages 13 to 17 years old, along with street outreach, a drop-in Center, case management, and connections to permanent housing for youth experiencing homelessness, ages 18 to 22 years old.

Youth action services - helps youth develop leadership and life skills while working to create change on systemic issues they deem critical to their lives and to other youth in the community. Youth action services includes programs like the mayor's youth council, wego public transit youth action team, students of stonewall, and building bridges.

Youth engagement services - engages at-risk youth in building positive identities and strong connections to their communities. Service-learning is central to this work as a tool for developing meaningful relationships, civic responsibility, and a positive sense of self. These services include programs like the international teen outreach program, r.e.a.l., the bike workshop, and just us.

Statewide top - a state-wide effort to disseminate the wyman Center's evidence-based teen outreach program ("top") in foster care, juvenile justice, and educational settings across Tennessee. This initiative focuses on training and supporting staff in these settings to implement top as a means to improve life skills, health behaviors, and sense of purpose for particularly at-risk youth populations.

Transition initiative - provides workforce development and job preparedness training for low-income and at-risk youth, ages 14 to 24 years old. Youth are supported in an individualized career development process that connects them to sustainable career pathways, wraparound supportive services, and follow-up support.

College connection - helps make college a reality for low-income, new american, and potential first generation college students by offering comprehensive college counseling services. Mobile staff engage students and families in schools, libraries, and community centers to help them build college-going identities, explore college/career options, complete financial aid and admissions paperwork, and find their most appropriate "fit" in order to be successful.

Counseling services - family, individual, and group counseling designed to address a wide range of issues affecting teens and their families. This work focuses on helping youth and families find hope and healing, build stronger relationships, discover personal strengths and resources, and find solutions that nurture ongoing positive growth.