About Youth Advocate Programs – Essex County – Elizabethtown
Youth Advocate Programs Inc. in Elizabethtown, New York offers a wide range of services for children, youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and families. They have a strong behavioral health department that includes outpatient psychological counseling and assessments. There is an intensive outpatient program and day treatment support and a Youth Empowerment Services program.
The youth empowerment program helps children and adolescents who have severe and complicated emotional or psychological challenges receive the resources and supports they need. This may be adaptive aids, respite, community living supports, transportation, specialized therapies, and more. Their experienced counselors are trained in a variety of areas, including addiction.
There are also outpatient and community or school based services to help children, youth, and their families have the best quality of life possible. It takes a village to raise a child and YAP believes they can be an impactful part of that village.
There are programs for youth who are at risk or involved in the criminal justice system. YAP helps youth learn how to make positive choices and set worthwhile goals using coping skills they develop through the programs at Youth Advocate Programs Inc.
They provide alternatives to incarceration, detention or placement. They offer truancy, gang, and violence intervention and prevention. Day treatment and reporting centers are available to help during and after care.