Programs:

Outpatient (OP)

Comprehensive Community Based Youth (CCBY)

Homeless Youth (HY)

Abstinence Education (AEP)

Outpatient  (OP)

Counseling services are provided at the schools, home, or through community visits, as well as at the office.  Youth are assisted by a qualified counselor who is best capable of meeting their needs.  The primary goals of the Outpatient Program are to enhance the youth’s psychological and social functioning while fostering personal growth in the areas of self-esteem, anger management, activities of daily living, vocational skills and educational activities.

 Services may include: Mental Health Assessments, Individual Counseling, Family Counseling, Group Counseling, School Counseling, Case Management Services, Trauma/Recovery, Crisis Services and Risk Education. 

 The OP program also provides specialty groups.  Currently these groups are:  Youth Anger Management and Sexual Abuse Group.  These groups vary depending on need.

 Comprehensive Community-Based Services - CCBYS

The Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services (CCBYS) Program serve youth 11-17 years of age (and their families) at risk of jeopardizing their current placement in the home and in the school. Delta Center provides a community and family based approach to services and treatment in these youth programs. Services are aimed at increasing the stability of family life, assisting youth and their families to resolve and cope with familial conflict, and reduce the number of youth involved in DCFS and the Juvenile Justice System.

 The goal of the program is to help families learn how to live harmoniously and have the ability to resolve and cope with family conflict and disruptive behavior.  This is done in order to preserve the youth in his/her family home or to reunite the youth with his/her family.  If reunification is not possible, the child is placed in a temporary living arrangement, which can be a licensed foster home, a shelter, with a relative, or in a placement mutually agreed upon by the guardian and the child. Such placement may be made for up to 48 hours and can be extended for up to 21 days when the youth and their guardian cannot agree to immediate reunification (except in the case of a lock-out).

 Once the family is reunified or preserved, intensive services continue for both the child and the family through individual and family counseling, case management, employment/education training, referral, linkage, and 24 hour crisis services.

 Group activities are also used in this program and are developed to instruct the youth in the areas of socialization skills and increase appropriate interaction with peers.  Youth are introduced to appropriate cultural and recreational activities,  and is given the family a respite time in order to improve family relations.

 Homeless Youth - HY

The Homeless Youth Program (HY) provides services to non-wards of the state and legally emancipated minors between the ages of 16-21 that are in need of preparation for adult living and responsibilities. Delta Center’s goal is to assist client-participants in successfully transitioning to independence and adulthood. Some of the activities/skills currently being delivered to the youth in this program are as follows: Job readiness skills, social skills, individual counseling, group counseling, communication and problem solving skills, self-esteem building, budgeting, parenting classes, case management, linkage and referral, and crisis intervention.

 Abstinence Education Program

The Delta Center, in collaboration with area schools and other youth service groups, provides an Abstinence Education Program to support and encourage the practice of abstinence and healthy lifestyles.  The goals of the program are to promote the physical, emotional and social well-being of children and adolescents. The AEP actively educates and engage parents and other adults in supporting healthy behavior and growth of our youth as they transition into adulthood.  Our mission is to enable and empower these children to realize their potential through a community-based program that teaches the social, psychological and physical gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity.  The Abstinence Education Program (AEP) seeks to provide our local youth with the much needed access to health and life education that teaches life-styles that are within the realm of possibility and provide inner-strength to succeed despite apparent obstacles. AEP offers young adults the opportunity to belong to something positive and healthy. 

The services offered through the Abstinence Education Program are as follows:

School Based Education:  Incorporates short-term abstinence education courses into junior-high and high school curriculums.

After-School/Summer Clubs: Gender-specific programs that engage students in holistic training and education in order to promote the practice of abstinence as well as encouraging self-confidence, self-determination and healthy relationships

Parent Workshops: Provides parents with practical information and skills for communicating effectively with their children about the emotional effects of teen sexual activity and to successfully promote the message of abstinence.

Mentorship Programs:  Recruits and trains adult and teen peer mentors to guide and support teens in choosing to abstain from sexual activity.

Counseling Services:  In addition to curriculum-based education, AEP also provides individual counseling as needed to promote the physical, emotional and social health and well-being of children and adolescents.

For more information regarding our Youth Services, please call (618) 734-2665 or email us