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    Juvenile & Criminal Justice

    Kids Experiencing Young Successes

    Adolescent Mentoring Program Families Rising Kids Experiencing Young Successes Recognizing Emerging Adults & Creating Hope

    The Foundling’s Kids Experiencing Young Successes (KEYS) program works with families to prevent long-term placement of their adolescent children in foster care or in a criminal justice residential placement by providing them with evidence-based interventions that support improved behavior, family functioning, and stability.

    When an adolescent frequently skips school, associates with delinquent peers, uses drugs, and even runs away from home for long stretches of time, his or her parent may seek help. The parent’s outreach may result in their child being sentenced to probation or placed in a detention center, a group care facility, or in foster care. Open to families in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx, KEYS works to prevent this type of placement, and instead offers evidence-based therapy to help keep the young person at home with their families. Program participants are provided with one of three evidence-based models for in-home interventions: Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), or Multisystemic Therapy – Substance Abuse (MST-SA).

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    Success Stories

    As a young teen, Justice was arrested and found himself…

    As a young teen, Justice was arrested and found himself facing a serious criminal accusation and possible jail time. His judge referred him to The Foundling's juvenile justice program, and the intensive counseling and support he and his family received from his therapist, Stephanie, helped him to avoid a criminal record and get back on the path to success.

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    Impact

    2.1M
    youth under the age of 18 arrested in the United States every year
    18
    evidence-based models and adaptations implemented with fidelity across our array of programs and service areas
    70%
    of youth in state and local juvenile justice systems have a mental illness
    94%
    of young people in Families Rising are enrolled in an education program
    Up to 80%
    of youth involved in the juvenile justice system are rearrested within 3 years
    $5
    donation launched The Foundling's work in 1869
    DID YOU KNOW
    More youth are placed in foster care in the Bronx than any other borough of New York City

    Resources

    To learn more or enroll in the Kids Experiencing Young Successes (KEYS) program, contact us at KEYS@NYFoundling.org.

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