Achievements and milestones

Board of Directors

History

RYI is one of the oldest minority-based non-profit organizations in the City of Boston. Conceptualized and then initiated by Justice Julian T. Houston in 1981, RYI first helped decrease recidivism among young men and women from the Roxbury District Court. Today, RYI provides community-based supports, positive alternatives, advocacy, and an array of social services to young people and their families with strategic state partnerships acting as:

• the Lead Agency for the Dimock Street Area Office and a network provider with the Department of Social Services (DSS);
• the sole service provider of all of Boston’s Community Re-Entry Centers with the Department of Youth Services (DYS);
• a service provider of Juvenile Court Clinics with the Department of Mental Health (DMH).

For twenty-seven years RYI’s focus has been to assist at-risk/high-risk youth and their families who are struggling to overcome life challenges. Our greatest achievement is the number of youth served successfully who have gone on to cultivate positive relationships with families and their communities. Each year RYI assists over 700 youth as well as hundreds of extended family members.

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Infrastructure

Lead by an Executive Director, RYI consists of multi-cultural and lingual staff members, many of whom reside in the same communities in which we operate our sites and where our youth live and go to school. RYI receives strategic, fiscal and executive oversight from its Board of Directors.