**During the COVID pandemic, the EOC switchboard is staffer part time from 7:30am - 1pm Mon-Fri with no voicemail option. If you are unable to reach a staff member, please call back during the hours indicated. ** Offers a comprehensive year round program including participation in local youth councils and a County-wide youth council. Summer programs include youth employment, leisure time and recreational/cultural activities. Also offers a Martial Arts Program, career explorations, Martin Luther King Scholarship which is given annually to deserving students, and the Kearse Soccer Clinic. Year round individual and family counseling offered. Tutorial and homework assistance is also available as well as workshops on substance prevention, underage drinking, teenage pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS.

In partnership with Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation, it offers violence awareness and prevention curricula in schools in communities for youth, staff and parents.

Provides an Extended School Day and School Violence Prevention program. Weekly clubs offer literacy activities through hands-on programming. School Violence Prevention provides crisis-intervention counseling and support groups to target protective assets and risk factors.

Provides an Extended School Day and School Violence Prevention program. Weekly clubs offer literacy activities through hands-on programming. School Violence Prevention provides crisis-intervention counseling and support groups to target protective assets and risk factors.

Provides teen gang and violence intervention programs.

Too Good For Violence is a school-based prevention program that addresses the most significant risk and protective factors at each developmental level K-12Too Good for Drugs is an evidence-based prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among students K-12.Teen Intervene is designed specifically for high school students, who are experiencing mild to moderate problems associated with alcohol or other drug use.

The program' s goal is to increase resilience and pro-social behaviors. A Parent's Guide to Changing Destructive Adolescent Behavior (CDAB) is the only parent training program that addresses the MOST destructive of adolescent behaviors. With a focus on improving both school attendance and performance. Program Goals: Reduce family conflict Reduce juvenile crimeImprove School attendance and performance Critical Issues Addressed: Arguing and Family conflict Poor School Performance Truancy and Dropouts Media Influences Early Teen Sexuality Teen Drug Use Youth Gangs Teen Violence BullyingRunaway youth

Supplies innovative, high quality, user friendly resources that help children, teens, parents, educators, and others cope with the many vital issues facing today's youth.

Offers information on a variety of crime prevention issues, programs or services, from public awareness, protection, and possible ways to prevent crime, etc. Also provides a helpline for those who have been crime victims.

Engages residents, private industry, and community-based organizations in reducing and preventing shootings and violence. Outreach workers serve as peer mentors for a caseload of high-risk individuals who they work with on a regular basis to reach potential perpetrators, identify the core reasons for gun violence, and assist them to obtain needed services such as job training and drug abuse counseling. A project of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.

In partnership with Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation, it offers violence awareness and prevention curricula in schools in communities for youth, staff and parents.

Works to reduce gang violence and promote a variety of opportunities and other competencies that give the youth in the local community alternatives to a violent life on the street.Provides a wide array of services for youth already involved in the criminal system including case management, social work services, counseling, and Moral Reconation Therapy. Also provides community based and school based prevention services to youth at risk for engaging in criminal.

Helps youth and families struggling with problems such as drug and/or alcohol use, chronic truancy, violence towards self or others, gang involvement/affiliation, violating curfew, and disruptive behaviors in the home or school.

Offers a community outreach program for at risk youth, residents, organizations and businesses in the Incorporated Village of Hempstead aimed at reducing gun violence and strengthening the community through partnership, provides referrals to appropriate agencies, educational and employment assessments along with crisis intervention and conflict mediation.

Provides a puppet performances for pre-K school children that promotes mental health, prevent substance abuse, address gang involvement and teach conflict resolution.

Provides enrichment programming, tutoring, and violence prevention training for students at PSLA High School.

* Offers prevention education services. Life skills workshop series offered to school and community groups. Training and workshops for parents and professionals.* Offers support groups for parents and youth.* Coordinates and plans services for youth by identifying unmet needs and develop programs to meet those needs.* Offers street outreach and anti-violence groups for K-12 grade.

* Aims to reduce the incidence of shootings, killings, and other acts of violence using a public health approach. Identifies and engages high-risk youth in case management Conducts youth outreach Prepares public education campaigns Mediates conflict Provide referrals to local agencies Involves faith leaders Have presence in the streets that neighborhood shootings occur

Provides support and education to develop the skills students need to make healthy decisions when facing the increasing challenges of stress, peer pressure, and temptations, and to learn to treat others respectfully and get along peacefully.

Provides prevention program designed to reduce gun violence among Syracuse youth in the south and southwest neighborhoods. Focuses on behavior change among the youth at highest risk of victimization and perpetration of gun violence.

Presents a program that is an evidence-based curriculum offered in many states throughout the nation. The classroom curriculum is taught by Suffolk County Deputy Sheriffs and Correction Officers who received specialized training to present to elementary and middle school students. Prevention as its primary objective, the program aims to prevent bullying, youth crime, violence, drug use, and gang involvement while promoting a positive relationship among law enforcement, families, and our youth. G.R.E.A.T. Lessons focus on life skills designed to help students avoid using delinquent behavior and violence to solve problems, and further helps them make positive choices in life. Contact the Community Relations Office to have this program offered at your school.

Goal of the At-Risk Youth Jail Tour is to educate youth about the potential consequences of poor choices. A growing number of Suffolk County`s youth are in danger of falling prey to criminal and gang activity. Young teens especially face peer pressures that often make them act in ways that help them become “accepted” by a group, but they have no idea about the consequences of their behavior. As a result, many young people at an early age begin what may become a painful life of criminal behavior. These tours must be scheduled in advance and the youth must be accompanied by a parent. Call for more detailed information and an appointment.

Provides an Extended School Day and School Violence Prevention program. Weekly clubs offer literacy activities through hands-on programming. School Violence Prevention provides crisis-intervention counseling and support groups to target protective assets and risk factors.