Integrated Youth Services for Youth (IYS)

Provided by: BGC South Coast BC

Service Description

Offers support services to youth ages 13 to 18 and their families who have been referred by Ministry for Child and Family Development (MCFD), police, or schools. Services include family mediation, diversion programs, parenting programs, and individual and family counselling. Serves North and South Delta.

Youth Transition Services provide one-to-one and group services to youth who may or may not be involved with the Ministry for Child and Family Development who require additional support or skill building to move from adolescence to responsible adulthood. Youth develop adult competencies to enable them to achieve independent living with confidence and success. Included under this service heading are youth and families referred from the community at large.

Youth Justice provides three types of service in the Youth Justice area: Intensive Support and Supervision (ISSP), which is Court-ordered one-to-one support for young offender provided by youth worker to engage the youth in pro-social activities and disengage in negative activities/offending behavior; Community Work Service, which is the supervision of young offenders ordered by the court to engage in constructive means of reparation; and Monitoring and Supervision, which includes monitoring compliance with court orders including monitoring curfews, assisting in providing community safety, and providing transportation to court and programs.

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