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4.6.21 Time Magazine photo essay shows heavy toll of the pandemic on Wheeling's homeless (WTRF)
4.3.21 Deaths Among America's Homeless Are Soaring in the Pandemic. Wheeling Photographer Captures a Community in Crisis (TIME)
3.25.21 Safe Places available in Ohio County and nationwide to. help teens cope with problems or find help (WTRF)
3.26.20 YSS Recognizing 'Safe Place' Partners (Intelligencer) (PDF)
3.15.21 YSS Winter Freeze Shelter Closes for Season After Successful Three Months (WTRF)
3.5.21 Realtor Dave Robbins Provides Shelter With Tent Donation to YSS (LEDE News)
3.5.21 Paull Associates Real Estate Agent helps those without a home by donating to YSS (WTRF)
3.5.21 Local real estate firm Paull Associates helping homeless with donations to YSS (WTOV)
3.7.21 River Valley Health Foundation Supports YSS, Other Charities (Sunday News-Register) (PDF)
2.14.21 YSS After-Care Students Create Unique Valentines (Sunday News-Register) (JPG)
2.18.21 YSS, Vineyard and others open shelter to close the gap in homeless shelter service (WTRF)
2.11.21 - As Temps Go Down, Numbers Go UP at YSS Winter Freeze Shelter (WTOV)
2.5.21 What you can do to help YSS Winter Freeze Shelter (WTRF)
1.31.21 Oglebay Institute Gives YSS Helinski Shelter Girls Chance to Dance (Sunday News-Register) (PDF)
1.21.21 Youth Services System, Wheeling Police Hope Knowledge of Crisis Intervention Will Help Save (PDF)
1.19.21 Street Survivors' Holiday Donations Boost Local Charities, Including YSS (Intelligencer)
1.16.21 Youth Services System, Wheeling PD Host Crisis Intervention Training (Parkersburg News and Sentinel)
1.15.21 Wheeling Police Department takes part in crisis intervention training with YSS (WTOV)
1.14.21 Wheeling PD Goes Through Crisis Intervention Training with YSS (WTRF)
12.22.20 - Lions Club collecting for YSS winter freeze shelter (WTOV)
12.31.20 - Wheeling Homeless Encampments in the Spotlight After Complaints (The Intelligencer) (PDF)
12.26.20 - Local shelters, including YSS Winter Freeze Shelter, ensure residents have a Merry Christmas (Times Leader) (PDF)
12.26.20 - Shelters Provide Warmth on Snowy Christmas (Sunday News-Register) (PDF)
12.24.20 - Hand Center keeps YSS shelter residents' fingers warm with donation (Times Leader) (PDF)
12.21.20 - YSS Winter Freeze Shelter Opens at New Location (Intell) (PDF)
12.17.20 Steenrod Elementary Staff, Students Helping at the Holidays (Intelligencer) (JPG)
12.15.20 Improved YSS winter freeze shelter offers more room, new amenities (WTOV)
12.15.20 YSS Winter Freeze Shelter open at new location (WTRF)
12.4.20 10th Annual Wheeling SleepOut-Home for the Holidays Event - Intell/NR (PDF)
12.4.20 Local Musicians Ready to Entertain for Wheeling SleepOut Tonight - Intell/NR (PDF)
12.3.20 Wheeling SleepOut Set for Friday - Moundsville Echo (PDF)
11.25.20 YSS Winter Freeze Shelter has new location, new challenges (WTRF)
11.26.20 Home for the Holidays-Wheeling SleepOut Window Display Contest Underway (The Intelligencer) (PDF)
11.26.20 Valley Hospice Employees Donate to Local Charities, Including YSS (The Intelligencer) (PDF)
11.23.20 Wheeling, YSS using Hillcrest Building for Winter Freeze Shelter (WTOV)
11.19.20 YSS, Local Agencies Promote Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services in Wetzel County (PDF)
11.18.20 City Provides Former OVMC Space for Freeze Shelter (PDF)
11.6.20 Festival of Trees Kicking Off Today at Stifel Center (PDF)
11.1.20 Left Out in the Cold - Wheeling SleepOut 2020 - Sunday News-Register (PDF)
10.24.20 We're Not Doing Enough to End Homelessness (Sunday News-Register) (PDF)
10.19.20 YSS Impact Coalition Announces National Prescription Drug Takeback Day (WTOV)
10.8.20 Youth Services System Inc. Unveils Third Recovery House (Intelligencer) (JPG)
10.8.20 Grant helps open Wheeling's newest recovery home (WTOV)
10.8.20 House for anyone fighting drug or alcohol addiction opens (WTRF)
10.11.20 YSS Recovery Home Residents Find Hope (Sunday News-Register) (JPG)
10.8.20 Youth Services System Inc. Unveils Third Recovery House - Intelligencer (jpg) (JPG)
9.17.20 YSS Part of Ziegenfelder's Cops, Pops and Community Effort (WTOV)
9.6.20 Day of Caring Held for United Way (WTRF)
9.9.20 Virtual Good Samaritan Dinner Tickets Available until Thursday (Intelligencer)
8.30.20 YSS Offers New Peer Recovery Program for Teens and Older Adults (News-Register) (JPG)
8.28.20 YSS Offering Addiction Recovery Program for Teens (WTRF)
8.4.20 Marshall County Schools Back to School Fun Fair tomorrow (WTRF)
7.27.20 YSS keeping Celebrate Youth back-to-school tradition alive (WTRF)
8.14.20 The Caring City: Wheeling's Longstanding and Successful Social Services Organizations (Weelunk)
7.28.20 YSS names Vineyard Church, pastor as Good Samaritans (The Times Leader) (PDF)
8.7.20 YSS Provides School Supplies to Local Families (Intelligencer) (PDF)
8.6.20 Youth Services System adjusts without annual youth festival (WTOV)
7.27.20 Youth Services System to Distribute School Supplies Aug. 6 (News-Register) (JPG)
7.27.20 YSS Names Vineyard Church, Pastor as Good Samaritans (News-Register)
7.26.20 Youth Services System in Wheeling names 2020 Good Samaritan (WTOV)
7.15.20 Wheeling Partners Awarded $100,000 Aetna Foundation Grant to Advance Health Equity in Ohio County (Weelunk)
6.24.20 Bombas Socks Donates to Youth Services System (WTRF)
6.23.20 Community Impact Coalition shows that resources are available (WTOV)
6.20.20 Discover Recovery Goes Virtual (Sunday News-Register) (PNG)
6.22.20 Youth Services System Offer Summer Jobs, Mentoring for At-Risk Youth (WTRF)
6.22.20 Second Annual Discover Recovery Offering Resources on Substance Use Disorder (WTRF)
6.5.20 YSS Holding Virtual Campout Fundraiser Today (Intelligencer) (PNG)
5.22.20 YSS Cancels Celebrate Youth Festival (WTRF)
5.29.20 Ferns Family Makes $10K Donation to Prevent Homelessness During COVID-19 (Intell) (PNG)
5.28.20 Terra Crews Talks Campout for a Cause with Steve Novotney (WKKX)
5.21.20 — YSS to Host Campout for a Cause Fundraiser (WTRF)
4.25.20 - CFOV Awards Nearly $100,000 in Emergency Impact Fund Grants (The Intelligencer)
4.11.20 'We're All Working Together to Serve the Population' (The Intelligencer)
4.14.20 YSS School Mental Health Coordinators Helping Students Navigate COVID-19 Crisis (The Intelligencer/News-Register)
4.13.20 YSS still helping students’ mental health during high-anxiety time (WTRF)
4.13.20 YSS holds virtual conference to discuss at-risk youths (WTRF)
4.10.20 YSS Virtual Pop-up Conference Tackles Challenges (Lede News)
4.2.20 Second Chance for Homeless Families (WTRF)
3.28.20 Helinski Shelter Residents Learn to Sew, Make Masks (The Intelligencer)
3.19.20 Homeless population faces more hardship during COVID-19 epidemic (WTRF)
3.7.20 - YSS Seeks Safe Solutions as Winter Freeze Comes to a Close (Weelunk)
3.15.20 Marshall County Students Learning Benefit of Mindfulness (Sunday News-Register) (PDF)
2.25.20 YSS Among Honorees at Mayor's State of the City Address (WTOV)
3.1.20 Pats on the Back - State of the City Award (News-Register) (PDF)
3.3.20 - Wheeling University students impact youth at Mulholland Center (Weirton Daily Times) (PDF)
3.2.20 - YSS Emeritus Board Members in the News - Linda Bordas, John Nanny, Darrell W. Cummings (Intelliencer/News-Register) (PDF)
3.2.20 - Youth Services System Adopts Online Resuscitation Training (Intelliencer/News-Register) (PDF)
11.9.19 — SleepOut Raises Funds for Homeless Youth (The Intelligencer) (JPG)
11.14.19 - Compassion Becomes Real - Letter to the Editor from John Moses (Wheeling News-Register) (JPG)
11.5.19 - Murder Victim's Family Finds Healing in Giving to Homeless (The Intelligencer/News-Register) (JPG)
11.17.19 - St. Mary's Students Dress Down to Help Homeless (The Times Leader) (JPG)
11.2.19 - Wheeling SleepOut Preview and Hot Cocoa Sale (The Intelligencer) (JPG)
10.10.19 - Wheeling SleepOut Art Installation Raises Awareness for Youth Homelessness (Intelligencer/News-Register) (JPG)
2.25.20 - Video of State of the City Address (WTOV)
2.26.20 - Mayor Offers Optimistic View of Wheeling's Future (The Intelligencer/News-Register)
2.25.20 - Mayor Glenn Elliott's State of the City Address (Weelunk)
2.20.20 - Community Foundation, Women's Giving Circle Award Grants (Weelunk)
2.18.20 Women's Giving Circle awards more than $40K in grants to local organizations - WTRF
1.30.20 Planet Fitness Celebrates by Donating to YSS Youth Mentoring Network - WTRF
2.3.20 Special Assignment: Homelessness in the Ohio Valley - WTOV
1.31.20 Youth Services System holds appreciation dinner - WTRF
1.22.20 Area Residents Celebrate Life, Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King (The Intelligencer)
1.21.20 Wheeling Country Day Students Visit YSS Winter Freeze Shelter on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (WTOV)
11.6.19 Tammy Kruse talks about the Winter Freeze Shelter on Comcast Newsmakers
1.9.20 AEP Mitchell Plant Employees Donate Toys to YSS (The Intelligencer)
1.13.20 Ye Olde Alpha Customers Raise $5K for YSS in Ugly Server Contest (The Intelligencer)
1.9.20 Youth Opportunities Unlimited Resumes This Month at YSS (WTRF)
12.22.19 A Story of Relationships and Redemption — Sunday News-Register (PNG)
12.17.19 — Ye Olde Alpha continuing Ugliest Server tradition - WTOV
12.18.19 A&B Kia, Ryan Ferns Health plex present check to YSS - WTRF
12.18.19 Youth Services System In Wheeling Receives Special Gift from Mike Ferns Sr. - WTOV
12.19.19 Ferns Family Donates $10,000 to YSS Winter Freeze Shelter - The Intelligencer (PNG)
12.14.19 Christian Soldiers Make Christmas Brighter for Others - The Intelligencer (PNG)
12.5.19 Clothing Donation Drive Held in Memory of Slain Man - The Intelligencer (JPG)
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