Youth Services System
Contact Information:
Address: 87 15th Street
Wheeling, WV
Name of Programs Funded through UW: Expanded School-Based Mental Health
Contact Name: Jill Eddy
Phone Number: 304.218.2807
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.youthservicessystem.org/
What is Youth Services System?
Overview
Youth Services System’s Mission is to create better futures for children, families, and our community. We accomplish this by being responsive to the community’s needs by offering a continuum of community-based services including substance use and suicide prevention, assessment/evaluation, therapy, mentoring, supervised visitation, parenting education, safe-at-home services, homeless outreach, youth life, and employment skill training, peer recovery support, and school-based mental health services in the community. Completing the continuum with our residential programs including two emergency crisis support shelters, transitional living programs, juvenile detention and commitment programs, winter freeze homeless shelters, and three sober living homes.
Mission
- To create better futures for children, families, and our community.
How does United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley support Youth Services System?
Expanded School-Based Mental Health
The Youth Services System, Expanded School-Based Mental Health program has coordinators at Brooke Middle School, Triadelphia Middle School, Wheeling Middle, Moundsville Middle, Central Elementary, McNinch Primary, and Long Drain School, with services also offered at Steenrod Elementary and Central Elementary. Expanded School Mental Health (ESMH) is a multi-tiered system of support where schools, families, and strategic community partners work together to enhance student mental health in schools. Tier one provides prevention services to all students on topics including but not limited to suicide prevention and substance use prevention, as well as training for staff and faculty. Then, tier two focuses on early intervention with small student groups the school has identified as needing additional assistance. These groups work on building skills and resiliency. Finally, tier three focuses on mental health treatment for students who need referrals to provide assessments and referrals to therapy.
Youth Mentoring Network
The Youth Mentoring Network is designed for youth experiencing one or more risk factors: parent or caregiver that is/has been incarcerated, experiencing homelessness, trafficking, identify as LGBTQ, placed in foster care, difficulty with peers, academic challenges, family risk/stress, or low self-esteem. Children between the ages of six and seventeen (6-17) who reside in Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Tyler counties of West Virginia, and Belmont county of Ohio are eligible for the program. Mentees can share everyday activities with their mentor: eating out, playing sports or attending sporting events, going to movies, sightseeing, or just hanging out in the hope that a positive relationship will build.
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About the United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley
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