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.. Awareness Seminars: Youth caught shoplifting or experimenting wilh chemicals or tobacco for the first time, or who arc caught letting negligent fires, are referred by police or court to lhe respective 2-hour Awareness Seminar which is sponsored by NYFS. local Poliee , Departments.nd the Ramsey CoUnty Sheriff's Department. Pucnts must also attend with their child. Cost per hour of service is about $40.00. Each case requires a minimum of 4 hours. Delinquency Assessments: NYFS receives referrals from Ramsey Counly Juvenile Service Center's Intake Division of youth . referred to or petitioned to court for illegal behavior. NYFS meets with youth and their parents to assess the situation .nd to decide upon an appropriale consequence. Cost per hour is $40.00. Each Assessment lakes one hour. Employment Services: There are two areas in which youth may participate in this program. Youth register for home chore jobs and pre--employmcnt skilllraining through the Youth Employment Program. Area residents and senior citizens place job requests through the Residential Chore or the Senior Citizen Chore Project. Youth rMY al80 be employed in NYFS' Youth Run Business, lite Community Clothing Connection. Here, youllt receive ha.nds-on training in lll8rk.eting, cUslOmer service, retail display and merchandising, inventory control, bookkeeping and computer and eash register use. Cost per hour for employment services is about $40.00. Each youth participant in the chore program receives an average of3 hours of service, while youth participants in the youth nm business receive 45 hours of service. Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Consists of two main programs: Teeo Health Ceoter: Through the Teen Health Center. reproductive healllt needs, both preventive and primary, of uninsured, underinsured and low income youth from our area between lite ages of 12.23. are met. Each visit lasts approximately 1.5 hours. The average charge per visit was $80. Health Educatioa Services: In 1993, 103 hours of prescotBtions or groups were provided to over 1,030 students (statistical information for this program is not kept by city). Youth Service Learning: In partnership with Mounds View District #621 Community Education, NYFS connects elementary, middle and high school students to community agencies/organizalions in need of volunteers. Cosl per hour is about $40.00. Each participant receives an average of 4.5 hours. of service. Other programs and services offered through NYFS (statistics not kept by city): Shoreview Community Center Youth Outreach: NYFS and the City ofShn.-cview provide a full,time youth Outreach & Community Service Advisor at the Shoreview Community: Center. By offering effective prevention and intervention programs, at.risk. and other youth are provided a healthy, positive experience at the benter. An event for teens called FRIDAYS has also been established. On certain Fridays, lite Center closes early and youth have the facilities all to themselves. Over 1,500 youlh attended FRIDAYS. in 1993. . .; Reflect Respect: As a result of a growing awareness that our communities are changing in populations. and a desire to respond to these changes. NYFS and a coalition of community members began lite Reflect Respect Project. It's mission is to develop a community in which all people are trealed with respect, acceptance and sensitivity, regardless of race, gender, economic status, physical attributes, disability and religion. Haunted House: Students from NYFS' Youth Service Learning Project, the New Brighton RotBry and lite New Brighton Chamber of Commerce developed the Second Annual NYFS Haunted House. A total of 50 volunteer students from Mounds View and Irondale High Schools ninth grade civic classes planned, built and acted in the Haunted House. ?vcr 800 people attended the event. Family Support Services - Home Based Family Program: This is a new program that hegan planning in 1993 and will begin offering services in Spring of 1994. The goal of this program is to promote family unifacation and prevent out of home placement. It will offer intensive home based treatmenL In addition to therapy, this program will be able to creatively meet current concerns of the family including parenting and behavior issues, academic concerns and lime management problems. Speakers Bureau: NYPS' staff of skilled clinicians, youllt workers and educaton mate presentations to area churches, civic groups and Pf As on topics focusing 00 parenting, family life, youth development and life enrichment. A speakers Bureau topic booklet and application fonn ia available upon request. Each year, NYFS staff complete between 45~ Speakers Bureau requests. .