Youth Residential Services (YRS) provides residential services to 24 adolescent girls aged 12-17.  Our program is designed as a normal home-like setting with elements like:  going to school or working part-time, learning to share common spaces with others, completing assigned household tasks which includes cooking for the house family, cleaning, making the bed; participating in school activities including going to the prom or extracurricular activities, volunteering and community involvement. We therapeutically address issues of interpersonal traumas and delinquency behaviors associated with low self-esteem, substance abuse, truancy, incorrigibility, sexual abuse, risky sexual behavior, school related problems, neglect, emotional/mental impairment and/or separation from family.  Our girls are referred from the Department of Human Services and Wayne County Child and Family Services.

Success by the Numbers
100% of youth:

• Had an length of stay rate of 10 months or less
• Are enrolled in school and or working within 5 days of placement attended weekly therapy
• Received at least 5 hours of tutorial services weekly through the Regional School districts
• 88% of clients released to a less restrictive setting remained in that setting for at least a three months
• 100% of Spectrum’s residential programs received and maintained regular Child Caring Institution licenses
• Through Title I Educational funds YRS was able to purchase “state of the art” computers, printers and educational/tutorial software
• YRS launched a female gender specific workshop series entitled “ Road to Success”