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Juvenile & Criminal Justice

Adolescent Mentoring Program Reaching New Heights Fair Futures Families Rising Kids Experiencing Young Successes Recognizing Emerging Adults & Creating Hope

The juvenile justice system works like a maze with too many entrances in, but far too few exits out.

Our intervention and diversion programs for young people caught in the system use evidence-based therapeutic interventions and to address and resolve the behavior that led the individual into the maze – helping keep children and young adults out of the criminal justice system and assisting those who already have justice involvement to exit permanently.

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Juvenile and Criminal Justice Programs

Juvenile & Criminal Justice

Diversion Programs

The Foundling’s services utilize evidence-based models to address the challenges young people experience with their families and in their communities and teach lifelong strategies that help them avoid justice involvement.

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Kids Experiencing Young Successes (KEYS)
A family-based program that uses the FFT, BSFT, or MST-SA models to assist teenagers at risk of justice involvement in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

Adolescent Mentoring Program
Provides structured mentoring and life skills training to young people at risk of justice involvement in the Bronx.

Reaching New Heights Fair Futures
Uses the Fair Futures model to provide mentoring and long-term coaching to young people in the Bronx previously involved in our programs.

Recognizing Emerging Adults and Creating Hope (REACH)
Uses the MST-EA model to assist teenagers and young adults in Brooklyn and Queens who are at risk or who have past justice involvement.

Juvenile & Criminal Justice

Alternatives to Incarceration

Families Rising, our long-running ATI program, offers FFT therapy for young people with justice involvement. This is an evidence-based approach that works with the entire family to address the underlying causes of young people’s involvement with the justice system and help them avoid incarceration.

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