Youth Services System, Inc.

1000 Chapline Street
Wheeling WV  26003
304-233-9627
24 - Hour Help Line - Call 1-800-YSS-8918
E-Mail
 hfox@ysswv.com


 

YSS Facts

HISTORY:
     Youth Services System is a unique consortium of programs serving high risk/high need young persons and their families.  We are situated in and serve the communities of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, one of the most economically compromised regions of the country.  Our Agency is comprised of both residential and day program services designed to provide as wide an array of responses as possible to the legitimate needs of children and families in crisis.  Our residential programs range from Crisis Emergency Shelters to Independent Living Training Centers.  Our day programs include Alternative Education, Job Skills Training, Vocational Education and a variety of individual and group counseling formats including the sponsorship of A.A. and N.A. support groups specifically for older adolescents and young adults.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
     For almost 30 years we have worked with over 16000 youngsters, averaging 600 annually, servicing between 70 and 100 each day.  We have achieved national distinction for program accomplishments through the national Child Labor Committee’s prestigious Hine Award (1988 and 1989) and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Profile Award as a national model worthy of replication (1989).  In addition, we are one of only two private Agencies nationally to manage a secure Juvenile Detention Center.  For that reason, we were West Virginia’s nomination to the Ford Foundation’s “Innovative Programs” Award.

ECONOMICS:
     Youth Services System’s annual operating budget brings $5.2 million in State and Federal tax monies back into this community.  YSS employs over 170 local people and as a principle of operation attempts to make all purchases in the local community.  Since 1983, YSS has expended over $2.5 million in construction and renovation costs, utilizing and revitalizing abandoned buildings or sites for program centers (i.e. Eoff Street Samaritan House construction, Lincoln School renovations, Transitional Living Training Center, Dunbar School, etc.).  We are a viable and dramatically expanding member of the local economy.