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Since its founding, RYI has provided community-based, non-residential services to area youth and currently provides diverse programming that is designed specifically to meet the varying needs of the clients. RYI youth are African-American, Latino/a, Cape Verdean, Haitian, and Caucasian; mainly speaking English, Spanish, Portuguese Creole, and French Creole. The majority of our youth experience the following social conditions: poverty; teenage pregnancy; underemployment/ unemployment; homelessness or fear of losing their home; inadequate education; substance abuse; victims or witnesses of physical, sexual, emotional or verbal abuse. Our diverse programs meet their diverse needs with the following programs.
The GIFT ProgramThe GIFT Program (Gaining Independence for Tomorrow) addresses one of the most disturbing issues facing young people today: commercial sexual exploitation. Our GIFT Life Coaches help the youth in their recovery from commercial sexual exploitation. They assist them in having stable living environments, positive peer and adult relationships, academic and vocational success and meaningful community involvement. Life Coaches provide prevention, intervention, support, stabilization, advocacy, and therapeutic services for young males, females, and/or transgender youth between the ages of 12-21. The Edge ProgramThe Edge provides adolescents (and their families) who are involved with the Department of Children and Families with support to meet specific goals including intensive direct advocacy by connecting families to long-term services in their communities, serving as mediators between families and the court system, and providing innovative center-based groups and workshops to enhance the social and psycho skills of the clients. Roslindale Community Re-entry Center (CRC)The roslindale crc works with youth who are transitioning from DYS secure treatment facilities and residential placements back to their home in the communities of West Roxbury, Hyde Park, Roslindale, Mattapan and Jamaica Plain. This structured reintegration process provides youth with intensive supervision and support to make a positive transition. Dorchester Community Re-entry Center (CRC)The dorchester community crc provides DYS involved youth with the skills, advocacy, and support they need to reduce recidivism and delinquent behaviors. This is accomplished by helping youth build healthy one-to-one relationships with caring adults, by youth attending meetings of groups such as life skills group, young men’s/women’s group, substance abusers group, violent offenders group, sexual offenders group, and by DCRC staff conducting curfew checks and providing advocacy for program youth in court and in employment. Roxbury Community Re-entry Center (CRC)The roxbury community crc provides similar services as those at the West Roxbury Community Re-entry Center. It provides services to youth who are transitioning from DYS secure treatment facilities and residential placements back to their home in the Roxbury community. This structured reintegration process provides youth with intensive supervision and support to make a positive transition. Female Focus Initiative (FFI)FFI, the first female (youth) re-entry program, is a partnership with the Department of Youth Services, the Boston Coalition, the Ella J. Baker House, and the Boston Police Department. Recognizing that the majority of community-based juvenile delinquency prevention/intervention programs are mainly populated and geared toward young men, many young women tend to fall between the cracks. FFI provides effective programming (recreational, educational, and cultural) for young women who are involved in the juvenile justice system.
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