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Youth and Family Services provides crisis intervention, intake assessment, short-term counseling and the necessary referrals to help youth and families resolve issues that impact school attendance and parent-child relationships. Youth and Family Services consists of two Family Counselors: one licensed marriage family therapist and one marriage family therapist Intern. The Counselors work with the New Haven Unified School District in a collaborative effort to create plans for youth and their families to address domestic disputes, parent-child issues, behavioral problems, truancy and runaway. This program is partially funded by Alameda County Juvenile Probation.

Youth and Family Services also offers a parenting component called the Parent Project. The program is is a 36-hour parenting education series that is taught 3 hours for one evening a week for 12 weeks. This parenting program is specifically designed for parents of out-of-control youth, such as truancy, runaway, and incorrigible behavior. The program promotes mutual respect, positive reinforcement, responsibility, and holding youth firmly accountable for their behavior while providing parents with concrete and effective strategies to change the most destructive adolescent behavior. The program also includes a drug and gang education component intended to help parents recognize the first signs of substance abuse and gang involvement.

Counseling services are offered at our offices located at Centro de Servicios and at the Ruggieri Senior Center.

Kristie Potter, Youth and Family Services Counselor
kpotter@ci.union-city.ca.us
(510) 675-5217

Patricia Abadesco, Youth and Family Services Counselor
pabadesco@ci.union-city.ca.us
(510) 675-5617