Youth Focus, Inc.

Youth Focus, Inc. is a non-profit United Way agency dedicated to helping young people and their families learn to deal with today's pressures. A powerful collaboration of medical professionals, therapists, law enforcement, administrators, businesses, and volunteers, helping solve young people's diverse problems.

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Youth Focus provides a continuum of prevention, intervention and treatment services for children and youth and their families who are at risk, in crisis or who have emotional or behavioral problems. Youth Focus provides a wide range of services to at risk and troubled young people ages five to twenty one.

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"...so that no child is left behind because we did not act." Marion Wright Edelman

Youth Focus provides a wide range of services to at risk and troubled young people ages 5-21. Services include Big Brothers Big Sisters, professional counseling, family preservation services (intensive in-home counseling and family therapy), therapeutic family services, an emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth, two psychiatric day treatment programs, adolescent substance abuse services, a Transitional Living Program and a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility.

To access Youth Focus services please call 336-333-6853 in Greensboro, NC or 336-841-6083 in High Point, NC.

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Safe Place
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• Across the country and in Guilford County, there are designed "Safe Places where kids can go to get immediate help. The familiar black and yellow sign is a beacon for youth who are running away suffering abuse by a parent or a stranger, having alcohol or drugs related problems, experiencing depression or other conflicts. The people of all these participating locations know how to access the free, confidential help by calling on trained staff from a Youth Focus emergency shelter. Over 250 kids have used Safe Place since it's inception.
• On Monday, March 19, 2012 the Greensboro Transit Authority began to partner with Safe Place of Guilford and Randolph Counties to add more than 100 buses as mobile Safe Place sites.  Signage at the Depot, GTA Administrative Offices, and on GTA, HEAT, and SCAT buses indicates an area of safety for children in need.  A child in crisis may simply board a GTA bus, ask the bus driver for help, and be connected to Act Together Crisis Care and supportive resources.  This collaboration greatly increases Safe Place outreach throughout Greensboro. More information about GTA can be found at www.ridegta.com. Click on the following link to see local news coverage about this new service:  http://triad.news14.com/content/top_stories/655381/buses-now-serve-as--safe-place--for-youth

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