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~ e:ir . 35 I When the Youth Service R1reau (YSB) was developed, there was no other youth oriented agency of its type in the cmmty, and there is still no comparable agency, offer:lng these.sornces', in this area. Most of the services we offer wero beglm by us as a result of conferr:lng with local members of the school, Dep- artment of llumlm Resources, the police department, and juvenile probation, and then prioritizing the needs we heard from these sources. Some of the most importent and direct services we offer are drug counseling, anti-truancy, anti- dropout counseling, pregnancy counseling, family counseling in the form of Parent Effectiveness Training, (PEr), as well as' individual counseling with parents when we feel it is directly creating problems with our clients. We have organized a drug pamphlet library where clients can learn the. the serious ,effects which many harmful drugs can have on them. We provide indepth counseling in the schools both in groups and individually, done in close coordination with school counselors and teachers, in our efforts to deter' truancy and dropouts. We-are currently attempting to get mre parents involved in our program as volunteers, both to add IIl31lpower and more importently to get them more involved with their children. We intend to coordinate mre (PEr) workshops with this. We have a series of after school rap sessions scheduled for this spring, during which we will have speakers deliver talks on key areas, 1. e. family planning, V. D., military I job core, ect, followed by a discussion with the kids. All these services, along with our basic program compose a total service not offered by any other agency and I . one which would seem to be a necessary part of ever:y communities' obligation to the people living in the area. The department of human resources has no staff for these services, and even. utilizes our. services extensively; the school S:irstem acknowledges the desperate need for our services, but has been unable to maintain their own program, juvenile probation has only one man whose priorities DDJSt go , to more serious delinquent offenders, yet all these agencies feel they wHl suffer measurably if we close. Our agency was funded primarily as a diversionary project, that was Illeant to identify adolescents between ten and seventeen, who were showing signs of hav- ing difficulty n:anaging their lives, and then to offer them the help and support they needed in order to stabilize and to avoid the possibility of coming into contact with the Juvenile Justice System (JJS), and also to accept as clients some referrals who had come into contact with (JJS) already for ver:y minor probl The (YSB) uses a team model approach, which means we compose a team of program componets, and during intake we decide how a cooperative effort should 1le arrang We have three major program phases, counseling, both group and individwu., rec- reational, which is coordinated with ,the counseling, and the volunteer phase wh1 I I /.