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State College, PA 16801

Phone: 814-237-5731

Outreach

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The Burrowes Street Youth Haven offers an outreach dynamic to its programming. This aspect of the shelter is responsible for publicizing the program to the community and possible clients through presentations, workshops, and street outreach. The Outreach Counselor also works directly with police and school personnel to identify community needs and issues regarding runaway and homeless youth. In collaboration with the Youth Service Bureau's outreach team, StreetWorks, counseling, education and youth development services are available to reach the population that are not already working with this agency.

The StreetWorks' team objectives are to find and develop communication with the target population: at risk youth between the ages of 11 and 18. Once this population is located, the goal is then to establish a connection with the youth, provide a link to services, and offer positive development and prevention activities and to create healthy relations between adults and youth. It is our desire to also help facilitate working relationships between youth and their community and to provide counseling or guidance where and when it is needed.

Currently, the StreetWorks team is present once a month at the Bellefonte and Snowshoe Youth Centers to do teambuilding and youth development activities. Tutoring programs are underway in Milesburg, PA as well as the Ashworth Housing Development located in Boalsburg, PA. StreetWorks holds monthly activities for youth in various communities that have been identified as either high risk or lacking a fun, safe place for adolescents to spend time. In addition, the StreetWorks team has gathered data and begun meetings for a community-mapping project, so that each community's resources and concerns (designed by the community itself) will be known and then considered for specific programming.

Some concrete examples of activities provided by the StreetWorks team in the summer of 2005 includes: a community garden created in the Ashworth park, hiking with youth at Shingletown, youth participation in a volunteer planning committee to decide on community service activities they would like to be part of, etc.

Any youth are welcome to become a part of this group. If you are interested or know someone who may be interested, please call the Burrowes Street Youth Haven at 814-234-0803, and ask for the Outreach Counselor. Hope to hear from you soon!

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