YCI teaches
positive decision-making skills to
promising youth with risk factors linked to criminal behavior in our
Youth Crime Prevention Program.
These youth reflect the diverse racial/ethnicities of Miami-Dade’s
juvenile system.
Specially-trained, caring counselors coach individuals to succeed in
school, graduate, and lead fulfilling lifestyles. We attain success
through academic improvement plans; engaging life skills workshops;
one-on-one and group counseling; concepts/strategies for making
positive choices; family involvement with parents, caregivers and
siblings; and evidenced-based interventions.
Our community and faith-based component strengthens families by
tailoring services and supports linked with community resources.
Special emphasis is placed on gender-specific strategies. We educate
youth on how exposure to violence heightens their risk to physical
and emotional security because knowledge is power.
Intervention strategies center on multi-system therapy, empowering
students and their parents/caregivers by using tested frameworks to
set and accomplish the family’s goals. Positive communication and
conflict resolution techniques give students and parents nonviolent
tools for resolving life’s conflicts. The main objective of the YCP
program is to reduce the incidence of juvenile delinquency and the
recidivism rate of young offenders.
Our program addresses the needs
of over 100 participants to overcome risks leading to crime and we
proudly achieve a 93% successful completion rate!
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YCI also
provides the following youth programs & services:
