Special Focuses

Hope for Youth, Inc. provides extensive family therapy services and encourages the involvement and empowerment of family in parental responsibilities. Client education programs and academic services are provided in association with the County Department of Juvenile Probation and Unified School Districts, through public and community education resources. Hope for Youth, Inc. promotes multiple program purposes, goals and objectives designed to address a full spectrum of inner city, rural and/or socio-economic backgrounds for youth with behavioral problems ranging from:

• Street gang members with histories of delinquent conduct disorders

• Clients suffering from post-traumatic stress or depression related to abuse/neglect histories

• Higher functioning clients placed primarily due to inadequate familial support

Hope for Youth, Inc. has also designed purpose,goals and objective programs to empower our staff with effective interventions, which focus on managing rather than physically reacting to behaviors. Our purpose is to minimize the risk of injury or harm to clients and staff during incidents which become or are volatile/ assaultive. Our goal is to facilitate an opportunity for clients to benefit from our program. Behavior Modification, Step-by -Step, therapeutic regime and daily living services in an effort to resolve behaviors, and problems which lead to out of home placement. This goal seeks to provide our clients an effective means to returning to their home, community while gaining options for creating a positive future for themselves. Our objectives are to teach Staff as a proactive option the skills necessary to prevent, defer and rechannel negative actions and behaviors into more pro-social, positive actions and behaviors. Our purpose, goals and objectives are realized through a combination of care and services provided throughout intensive program options. These options utilize methods which teach our staff methods of using verbal crisis interventions, positive role modeling, self-control of crisis situations with a preventative emphasis, de-escalation of negative situations, critiquing and assess skills as well as physical intervention techniques when necessary to protect staff, clients and others from injury or harm.  Staff learns a systematic approach to learning and accomplishing these skills and techniques which is built upon early recognition and proactive reactions.