As Youth Services Bureaus, they share a mandate to provide specific core services . Each Bureau, however, designs and implements programs in response to its community's changing and diverse needs. This is one of the great advantages of being community-based. Bureaus are flexible, diverse, and creative . We are 21 unique programs.
All services are confidential.
Bureaus offer services free, with a registration fee, on a sliding fee scale or insurance payments. Clients are served regardless of ability to pay. In addition, Youth Services Bureau programs are offered in a nondiscriminatory manner, without regard to race, religion, gender, disability, or sexual orientation. 24,356 people received these core services from Bureaus in FY 2000 - 8,038 of them received counseling services. Individual Youth Services Bureaus also provide other services depending on both local needs and funding availability.