Healing Our Youth
•Our Clientele:
–Disenfranchised (at-hope) Youth
•Adjudicated to Group Home or Foster Care
•Drug/Alcohol Problem/Hospitalization
•Incarcerated in Juvenile Detention
•Fringe population of charter/district schools
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Healing Our Youth
•Addressing this growing problem without addressing the core issues is only a band-aid treatment and we can already see that it isn’t working. Our current system is overwhelmed with the magnitude and severity. The White House Faith-Based and Community Initiative recent meetings in downtown Phoenix were a result of the acknowledgement that even the Feds need help and are willing to offer some financial support for it, too. No child left behind is a great gesture… we need to take more responsibility and not expect others to do it for us.

•Establishing relationships with the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, Department of Economic Security-Child Services Division, Behavioral Health Service Providers, and existing district schools are critical to serving this population.