What Is R.E.U.P.S ?
R egaining
E mpowerment for
U nder
P rivileged
S treet youth
Coordinated around an extensive resources center and safe hang-out spot for youth, We provide wrap-around services designed toward harm reduction and prevention.
Our aim is to provide an array of services including, but not limited to, housing, food, activities, outpatient drug and alcohol groups along with one-on-one counseling. Our navigation specialists will help guide clients in their own positive directions.
To accomplish these ends, we will implement individual plans of action based on both modern ACT therapy and high-contact,old fashioned mentoring.
The services we provide would be for terms of one year blocks with both the staff mentor and participant agreeing to the one year "contract". When the participants "age-out" of their own program we will aid them through the transition and assist them until they are stable on their own.
Our focus is on kids from below poverty level, abusive and/or addicted homes, and homelessness. As these kids progress through the program they will eventually pass on the knowledge they gain, to new kids entering the program through becoming navigation specialists and mentors themselves.