Positive Youth Development
Many New Bedford area youth, especially those living in poverty, face an uphill struggle toward becoming healthy, educated, responsible, self-sustaining adults. In our work with youth, our job is to awaken a sense of possibility and opportunity and help them take action steps toward achieving the new personal, educational, and vocational goals they have set for themselves.
Roots and Wings
With a focus on family reunification, whenever possible, this program provides mentoring and family support to help keep foster youth in their homes, their schools, and their community. Our primary focus is to help build healthy relationships between foster youth and foster parents and provide the opportunity for educational attainment.
Family Actualization, Support, and Empowerment (FASE)
In the FASE program, we provide intensive, strength-based services to troubled youth who are at risk of out-of-home placement. Through mentoring, home visits, crisis intervention, educational advocacy, vocational assistance, and “do whatever it takes,” we help:- Keep families together by reducing out-of-home placements
- Connect families with community resources
- Increase youth involvement and success in school
- Encourage youth to set goals for themselves and to take effective steps to achieve them
Wraparound Us–New Bedford Juvenile Drug Court
Providing wraparound support that involves families, we help "high-end" youth drug offenders graduate from drug court with bigger purpose than getting high. This program provides a wraparound facilitator that will work closely with families, team members of the New Bedford Juvenile Drug Court, and other stakeholders to:
- A.) reduce participant's use of alcohol and illegal drugs and their engagement in further criminal activity.
- B.) increase and improve the quality of educational attainment, thus leading to an increase in the amount of participants who successfully complete the Juvenile Drug Court.
- C.) assist youths and families in accessing community resources and support.
H.O.P.E. Wraparound Intervention Program
As part of a citywide effort to reduce youth gang violence, we support gang-involved and gang-prone youth in choosing school and job training instead of crime to get ahead.