Basic Center
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program description
The Basic Center Program assists runaway and homeless youth under 18 year of age and their families in Terrebonne, Lafourche, and Assumption parishes.
The program serves as a community-based center and addresses the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth and their families through outreach, shelter, food and clothing, individual,
group and family counseling, and aftercare
and referral services. The program assists youth in crisis and seeks to reunite them with their families, or to locate appropriate alternative placements.
The goals are to strengthen family relationships, to encourage stable living environments, and to help youths set plans for the future.
The program seeks to ensure that at least 95% of the youths served enter safe and appropriate settings after exiting the Basic Center. |
services provided
- Crisis intervention and outreach services
- Temporary shelter
- Offered though host home families that are trained and licensed as per the standards required for foster care families in Louisiana.
- Food and clothing
- 24-hour crisis line
- Maintained all year-round and answered by trained counselors.
- Access to community services
- Family therapy
- Offered by highly skilled, professionally trained therapists who work to maximize the strengths of families and help youths and their families to build healthier relational, communication, and other interpersonal skills. The goal is to reunify and preserve families whenever possible.
- Individual and group counseling
- In-home services
- Aftercare and case management
- Mentoring
- Advocacy
- Workshops for youth and concerned adults
- Include topics such as teen suicide, youth issues, communications, family systems, assertiveness, and problems of runaways
- Host home family training
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contact information
24-hour on call
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areas served
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