Ada Area Youth Shelter/Services is a local non-profit providing emergency shelter services and/or counseling to local youth in need.
Their mission statement is:
To provide emergency shelter for homeless youth and to provide outreach counseling services for the schools and community.
The agency is evaluated quarterly by case management.
The target population served is homeless youths, dysfunctional families and other community families in need of counseling and guidance services.
It is anticipated that the funds ARUW is currently raising will be used by the Youth Shelter in 2012 for 325 shelter residents. Additional programs provided by the Youth Shelter beyond ARUW funding is anticipated to be 350 in school outreach programming, 125 in the First Offender program and 75 in the community outreach program.
The Youth Shelter provides its services to Pontotoc and Coal counties.
There are nine volunteer board members involved with this organization. The agency does take volunteers; however, a background check is required as the volunteer would be working possibly directly with youth. If you are interested in learning more, please let me know.
The Youth Shelter in previous year used ARUW funds for the "little extras". With the budget cuts seen in the past few years, the agency could not exist without the ARUW funds provided via community contributions. If ARUW funding ended, the agency might end as well. Something to think about when your are considering your contribution for the 2012 ARUW campaign.
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