Description
Professional Mental Health Counseling
Counseling, also known as therapy, is a tool we use to engage in healthy and open communication with individuals, families and groups around life’s changes and challenges. When children, youth and families meet with a therapist for counseling, they have the opportunity to speak openly about any challenges they may be experiencing. Together, children, youth and their families work with their therapist to build a plan and identify the tools to help tackle any issues of concern and established goals.
Transitional Living Program
Youth In Need’s Transitional Living Program provides housing and comprehensive services for youth ages 16 to 19 in several locations. Housing is provided in both group home and apartment settings and pregnant or parenting youth and their children.
Emergency Shelter
Youth In Need’s Emergency Shelter is a 12-bed emergency residential group home for youth, ages 10 to 19, who are experiencing homelessness or in crisis. The Emergency Shelter offers individual, family, and group counseling, crisis intervention, case management services, and daily educational groups. The maximum length of stay in the shelter is 30 days. The purpose of the shelter is to mitigate the immediate crisis and provide safe temporary shelter to facilitate reunification with safe family or transition to other safe and stable housing. The Shelter is voluntary and youth must be willing to come and participate.
Contact: rb***@*********ed.org, 636-946-3771
Street Outreach Program
The program targets the needs of at-risk, runaway and homeless youth by providing services on the streets of the St. Louis metropolitan area. A mobile outreach unit provides tangible items, such as food, clothing and hygiene products. Street Outreach operates the Safe Place program and responds to youth in crisis at Safe Place locations. Staff provide crisis intervention and case management services for youth experiencing homelessness.
The program distributes Youth In Need literature and referral information for other needed services, including GED programs, medical facilities, shelters, job training programs and long-term food pantries. Staff also are available for community presentations on homeless youth and youth focus groups during this time as well.
Contact: bf***@*********ed.org, 314-280-0941
LUME
LUME Institute was founded to transform the way families, educators, and communities inspire young children to learn, grow, and thrive. Its model addresses the urgent need for early childhood systems to meet the complex emotional and developmental needs of today’s children and educators. The LUME Approach Framework centers on “being with”- a mindset of attuned, reflective engagement with self, colleagues, children, and families. Grounded in early childhood development science, trauma-attuned care, psychodynamic theory, and reflective practice, the framework fosters resilience, empathy, and authentic relationships across a school’s ecosystem.
While the full LUME engagement integrates all three components—Knowledge, Practice, and Internalization—the organization meets partners where they are. Services are customized to each program’s capacity, needs, and readiness, whether through short-term professional learning, leadership consultation, or deeper, multi-year partnerships.
Contact: lu**@*********ed.org, 636-329-4417