Our Mission

Our mission is to support families in nurturing and developing connected, good for you and productive youth

WHO WE ARE

For 45 years, the Youth Service Bureaus (YSB) have provided a continuum of services to help families accost the challenges of growing up.

We are the community mental wellness arm of Urban Services YMCA, specializing in counseling for youth and families, crunch intervention, prevention programs for at-risk youth, parent educational activity and support, truancy prevention, and community resources linkage services.

Youth Service Bureaus Programs

Clinical Based

Individual, Couple and Family Counseling

Diversion/Probation

Family unit counseling for youth referred past community police force departments for 10 sessions and management of additional services if recommended

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An acrimony management group for youth provided in the dispensary and on campus

First Stop / TRACK

A substance abuse education and prevention program for youth who are first-fourth dimension offenders.

Friendship Order

On-going socialization grouping for elementary-anile youth

Girls United

Group that teaches middle school-aged girls how to create healthy relationships and avoid making cocky-subversive decisions.

Juvenile Sexual Responsibility Programme

Consummate cess and treatment program for male youth, ages 12-17 that have a documented or suspected history of perpetrating sexual abuse.

Parent Education Group Program

Ongoing/open Castilian speaking parent group.

Schoolhouse-Based Counseling

Private and group counseling/crisis intervention.

Victim Impact Awareness Program

Group counseling co-lead with a juvenile probation officer. Seven-week closed group.

School Safety Abet/TSCS Middle School

Individual and grouping counseling with case direction for high-risk students at local middle schools.

WHO We SERVE AND WHAT We DO

Nosotros work in over fifty schools beyond San Mateo and San Francisco counties providing on-site counseling and assessment, crisis intervention, on-campus violence prevention, and boyish life skills/support groups. In San Francisco we work throughout the urban center on schoolhouse campuses with permanent services offered in eleven of those sites.

We work as a therapeutic partnership with the San Mateo Department of Probation providing diversion counseling for first-fourth dimension juvenile offenders, alternatives to incarceration and re-entry programs for youth in the juvenile justice arrangement. In San Francisco we offer intensive clinical instance management for probation-involved youth.

Nosotros are a clinical grooming center for Trainees and Interns working toward licensure in their professional fields of Social Work and Marriage & Family Therapy. Annually we train more than 25 graduate students.

Meet Our Staff

Jane Chandler

Senior Managing director of Mental Health

Urban Services YMCA

jchandler@ymcasf.org

About Jane

With ten years of feel working with youth and families, Jane Chandler is recognized for her thoughtful and committed approach to me

Margaret Hitchcock

Director of Clinical Services YSB of San Mateo

Urban Services YMCA

mhitchcock@ymcasf.org

About Margaret

Margaret has worked with youth and families with circuitous trauma through the majority of her career, working with inpatient and outpatient/customs based youth involved with probation and foster care in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. She believes that anti-racist and anti-oppression piece of work is an essential part of trauma-informed care and believes in the abolitionism of incarceration as a solution for youth with problematic behaviors.

Althea Garcia

Associate Director of Clinical Service

Urban Services YMCA

agarcia@ymcasf.org