Department Sites
Agencies We Fund
The Oneida County Youth Bureau serves as the funding arm of 47 different agencies and municipalities that receive state funds through the Office of Children and Family Services to provide valuable programs and services to youth. We serve as a conduit to the community to meet area needs in a cost-effective, pro-active way.
The funds we allocate are divided into three categories:
SDPP (Special Delinquency Prevention Programs)
YDPP (Youth Development Delinquency Prevention Programs)
RHYA (Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Funded Programs)
Special Delinquency Prevention Programs
Also known as SDPP. This funding is provided to non-profits to serve a targeted youth population with the goal of preventing Juvenile Delinquency.
Compeer
Compeer for Kids – This program offers recruitment and training of volunteers for mentoring friendships with children receiving mental health treatment.
For more information contact: JODIE RONAN 735-1066 or www.compeermv.org
Family Services of the Mohawk Valley
Teen Aggression Reduction – A ten week series of group sessions to build aggression reduction skills in teens; parents are engaged in individual orientation as a group starts and a debriefing session at the end of the series; serves youth/ families in western
Sexual Abuse Treatment Program – This program provides individual and family treatment of sexual abuse for those not eligible to participate through the Department of Social Services.
Juvenile Perpetrators – This program provides group and family treatment for youth implicated as perpetrators of sexual abuse.
Partners in Prevention – This program offers individual and family therapy from a family system approach to direct vulnerable youth towards completion of the Young Scholars program.
For more information contact: HERB FREEMAN 735-2236 or herbf@familyservicesmv.org
Oneida County Workforce Development
http://www.co.oneida.ny.us/oneida/workforcedev
Probation Employment - This funding allocation is used exclusively for stipends to youth on probation who participate in meaningful private sector employment opportunities.
Jail To Community Transition – This program supports coordination to transition youth, who complete sentences at Oneida County Jail, into job training programs or unsubsidized employment.
For more information contact: DAVE MATHIS 798-5908 or dmathis@ocgov.net
YWCA
YGIRLS: Open to girls throughout the county who reside in economically disadvantaged families to promote leadership development & learning onfidence towards hopes and dreams, jobs and careers.
Adolescent Outreach: This program provides awareness and prevention education information about sexual assault and domestic/dating violence; reaches youth from pre-school to college to developmentally challenged.
New Horizons Life Skills Program: This program offers life skills instruction for residents to assist them in making a successful transition to independent living.
Sexual Violence Services: This program offers rape crisis and domestic violence services for victims and secondary victims. It includes a hotline as well as accompaniment and advocacy with hospitals , law enforcement and courts.
Self Esteem/Life Skills: This program offers basic life skills training (cooking , budgeting , household management) and a focus on developing communication and relationship skills for both residents at New Horizons and youth from the community-at-large.
Sheltered Youth Project: This program offers a variety of services that a family may need after departure from Hall House Domestic Violence shelter. Those services include: crisis and short term counseling , age appropriate recreational activities; return to school of origin or re-enrollment in a new school , as well as follow-up and referrals.
For more information contact: NATALIE BROWN 732-2159 nbrown@ywcamv.org
Youth Development Delinquency Prevention Programs
This funding is also known as YDPP. It offers 50% funding to municipalities and non-profits for Youth Service, Initiative and Recreation programs.
Recreation
Boys and Girls Club of Utica
Putting the Pieces Together - Three tiered model program to foster team building & leadership development & build resilency skills.
For more information contact: WAYNE BARAN 724-2524 or wbaran@bgcutica.org
Catholic Charities
Child and Family Development: This program offers a variety of pre-natal and post-natal services to pregnant and parenting teens, teen fathers and extended family members. It also offers clinical treatment and individual case management as needed. The weekly group combines an educational/life skills module with socialization.
For more information contact: KATHY EICHENLAUB 724-2158 or keichenlaub@ccharityom.org
Johnson Park Center
Children’s Center – This program provides a safe, drop-in place with after-school and summer recreation for children in the Cornhill area. Many are from single parent, low income families.
For more information contact: REV. MARIA SKATES 734-9608
Service
American Red Cross, Utica Chapter
Health and Safety – This program provides health and safety prevention education for children/youth in the Utica Chapter jurisdiction that covers fifteen school districts. Issues like fire and burn prevention, home alone safety tips, choking and babysitting training are all addressed.
For more information contact: ANDRIA DELISLE HEATH 733-4668
Catholic Charities
Child and Family Development:
This program offers a variety of pre-natal and post-natal services to pregnant and parenting teens, teen fathers and extended family members. It also offers clinical treatment and individual case management as needed. The weekly group combines an educational/life skills module with socialization.
Wait Camp Program
Combines formal education with traditional camp activities to foster an increased sense of character, long term goal setting and increased comfort level in talking with parents/guardians about risky behavior.
For more information contact: KATHY EICHENLAUB 724-2158 or keichenlaub@ccharityom.org
Cornell Cooperative Extension
http://www.cce.cornell.edu/~oneida/cce/oneida.htm
Be Smart.. Don’t Start – This collaboration with Faxton-St.Luke’s Healthcare provides tobacco prevention education to youth in grades K-6. It deals with social, physical and peer implications.
Better Your Own Body – This is a youth development program that recruits, trains and hires high school and college students to facilitate group discussions with K-6th graders regarding the social, nutritional, physical and drunk driving implications of alcohol.
4-H Outreach – This youth development programming utilizes Intergenerational Master Gardener, 4-H Government Interns and Conservation Education Days to provide young people with role models and meaningful participation in community awareness and problem solving opportunities.
For more information contact: CHRIS WEBER-MANGINI 736-3394 or caw24@cornell.edu
Neighborhood Center
Career Development Trainees: This program provides stipends for youth employment opportunities in day care recreation and food preparation. Its on going training and evaluation clarifies education and career goals.
Outreach and Prevention: This social group works year round at the Center. It offers home visits , referrals for counseling as needed; family programs and cultural celebrations.
Transitional Life Skills: This program offers case management and independent living services for homeless youth age16-20 to improve their ability to function in independent living situations.
Project Aim: Provides opportunity to build self confidence, reduce negative social behaviors, increase employability and engage in community service projects
For more information contact: SANDRA SOROKA 272-2600
Peacemaker Program
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) – This program recruits
For more information contact: BRENDA EPISCOPA 724-1718 or info@ThePeacemakerProgram.org
SAFE SCHOOLS/THE UNDERGROUND CAFE
Utica Safe Schools provides quality programs and services to students in the cities of Rome and Utica. The Underground Café provides a venue of support for students ages 13-18 from John F Kennedy and Donovan Middle school, as well as students from Proctor High School. The Underground Café Teen Center is located at 714 Washington Street, in Utica.
For information contact Jeremy Butler - 792-2205 or e-mail him at jbutler@uticaschools.org
Thea Bowman House
B.R.I.D.G.E.S. – This program offers registered participants in an after-school program a safe, learning oriented environment. It also includes an all day program for five weeks during the summer. The program is located in the St. Francis Desales Neighborhood Center in
For more information contact: JANE DOMINGUE 797-0748 or theashouse@aol.com theashouse@aol.com
YWCA
Adolescent Outreach – This program provides awareness and prevention education information about sexual assault and domestic/dating violence; reaches youth from pre-school to college to developmentally challenged.
Sheltered Youth Project – This program offers a variety of services that a family may need after departure from Hall House Domestic Violence shelter. Those services include: crisis and short term counseling, age appropriate recreational activities; return to school of origin or re-enrollment in a new school, as well as follow-up and referrals.
For more information contact: NATALIE BROWN 732-2159
Initiative
Catholic Charities
Child and Family Development – This program offers a variety of pre-natal and post-natal services to pregnant and parenting teens, teen fathers and extended family members. It also offers clinical treatment and individual case management as needed. The weekly group combines an educational/life skills module with socialization.
For more information contact: KATHY EICHENLAUB 724-2158 or keichenlaub@ccharityom.org
Neighborhood Center
Career Development Trainees: This program provides stipends for youth employment opportunities in day care recreation and food preparation. Its on going training and evaluation clarifies education and career goals.
Outreach and Prevention: This social group works year round at the Center. It offers home visits , referrals for counseling as needed; family programs and cultural celebrations.
Transitional Life Skills: This program offers case management and independent living services for homeless youth age16-20 to improve their ability to function in independent living situations.
Project Aim: Provides opportunity to build self confidence, reduce negative social behaviors, increase employability and engage in community service projects
For more information contact: SANDRA SOROKA 272-2600
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
This renowned mentoring program matches adult role models with at-risk characteristic youth from single parent families.
For more information contact- DANA
Utica Municipal Housing Authority
Teens & Dreams- This program will assist disadvantaged youth residing in
For more information contact- TARAS HERBOWY 735-5246 or therbowy@uticamha.org
Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA) funded programs
Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency
Runaway & Homeless Youth Program – This program provides crisis mediation for youth and families. It also offers crisis (short-term) shelter with OCFS certified Volunteer Interim Families as well as referrals and advocacy with the goal of reuniting families.
Teen Recreation Center: This program offers constructive leisure time activities 6 to 8PM , M-F and some Saturdays for high risk, inner city youth, mainly from minority families involved with the human service system.
For more information contact: AMY TURNER at 339-5640 or aturner@mvcaa.com
Neighborhood Center
Career Development Trainees: This program provides stipends for youth employment opportunities in day care recreation and food preparation. Its on going training and evaluation clarifies education and career goals.
Outreach and Prevention: This social group works year round at the Center. It offers home visits , referrals for counseling as needed; family programs and cultural celebrations.
Transitional Life Skills: This program offers case management and independent living services for homeless youth age16-20 to improve their ability to function in independent living situations.
Project Aim: Provides opportunity to build self confidence, reduce negative social behaviors, increase employability and engage in community service projects
For more information contact: SANDRA SOROKA 272-2600
YWCA
YGIRLS: Open to girls throughout the county who reside in economically disadvantaged families to promote leadership development & learning onfidence towards hopes and dreams, jobs and careers.
Adolescent Outreach: This program provides awareness and prevention education information about sexual assault and domestic/dating violence; reaches youth from pre-school to college to developmentally challenged.
New Horizons Life Skills Program: This program offers life skills instruction for residents to assist them in making a successful transition to independent living.
Sexual Violence Services: This program offers rape crisis and domestic violence services for victims and secondary victims. It includes a hotline as well as accompaniment and advocacy with hospitals , law enforcement and courts.
Self Esteem/Life Skills: This program offers basic life skills training (cooking , budgeting , household management) and a focus on developing communication and relationship skills for both residents at New Horizons and youth from the community-at-large.
Sheltered Youth Project: This program offers a variety of services that a family may need after departure from Hall House Domestic Violence shelter. Those services include: crisis and short term counseling , age appropriate recreational activities; return to school of origin or re-enrollment in a new school , as well as follow-up and referrals.
For more information contact: NATALIE BROWN 732-2159 nbrown@ywcamv.org
ONEIDA COUNTY PROBATION
www.ocgov.net/oneida/probation
Rome Safe Schools/Healthy Students: Program targets 200 students at RFA, Strough Middle School and Rome BOCES to reduce family court petitions and reduce costly out-of-home placements.
For more information contact: TOM MARCOLINE 799-5914 tmarcoline@ocgov.net
MOHAWK VALLEY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM/ADDICTIONS
Second Step: Research based program to increase social skills and lessen negative behaviors including substance abuse. Targets 131 first graders at Kernan and Martin Luther King schools.
For more information contact: SAMANTHA 733-1709