All services are available on a fee for service basis and ability to pay sliding scale. Reach for Youth, Inc. offers several types of groups for young people and families. Everyone goes through an assessment process to determine appropriateness for the various groups. This is an open ended group meeting weekly for six sessions. Deals with challenges facing young women, including peer pressure, sexuality, identity, assertiveness, goal setting, self esteem and conflict resolution.
Participants discuss feelings, moods patterns, thinking, choices, triggers, and the anger cycle.
Assertion and conflict resolution skills are taught to participants. Group meets for seven weeks and deals with child development, discipline, rules setting, negotiating, expressing emotions, etc. Parents and children meet in groups concurrently and together over a two hour period. Reach for Youth's Teen Court accepts referrals of first-time juvenile offenders from the Marion and Johnson County juvenile courts. In operation since 1990, it is one of the largest programs in the country.