North Texas Youth Connection

Outreach and Prevention Services include Responsive Attentive Peers (RAP) life skills groups for youth, offered at community locations such as youth clubs, schools, and community centers. Project Safe Place involves a network of businesses, public places, and volunteers in reaching out to youth in crisis. Youth Advocacy Council involves area youth, including current and former clients, who act as ambassadors to the community and meet regularly to provide feedback about programs, lead activities in the shelter, and create a forum for youth to have a voice in the community. Leadership and Diversity Conferences are one-day events in which youth learn leadership and advocacy skills, or tackle specific challenges to gain an understanding of trials that come with trying to operate in today’s world with those problems.

Emergency Shelter for youth. The 14-bed temporary shelter for males and females ages 10-17 provides runaway, homeless and abused youth with a safe place to stay until they can be reunited with their family or an alternative living arrangement can be secured. Discovery is a summer program for youth residing in the emergency shelter. In this innovative program, the daily schedule is enmeshed with fun enrichment activities and experiential learning, including arts and crafts, tours of museums, field trips, games, group discussions, community service projects and guest speakers. 

The Transitional Living Program is for homeless youth ages 16-17, it provides housing and support services for longer-term needs (i.e., living accommodations, food, clothing, counseling, outreach; referrals, aftercare, educational and workforce readiness skills and related services) of runaway, homeless, street youth and those transitioning out of foster care in a longer-term setting. Youth are required to attend school and/or obtain and maintain gainful employment while in the program, and attend monthly life skills classes to give them the resources they need to never be homeless again. Once they obtain private housing, a year of follow-up care will be offered, with the goal of the youth maintaining their independence and never being homeless again.

Location

PO Box 1625
Sherman, 75091, TX

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