Youth Intervention Services

ADDRESS

1820 S. Central St., Suites C & D

Visalia, CA 93277

CONTACT

email: Manny Castro

Tel: (559) 372-7002

What we do

Champions provides gang prevention, intervention and outreach to Visalia Unified School District (VUSD) students, families, and neighborhoods during school and non-school hours. Champions staff is flexible and able to provide support/intervention during the school day as well as non-school hours of evenings and weekends in schools and in the community. Champions will have at-least one staff on-call to drop by schools, make home or neighborhood visits to connect with students and families in response to emergencies. To receive these services, youth must be referred by the Safe Student Intervention Program at their school.

Champions also provides substance use disorder (SUD) treatment, individual and family therapy, and intensive case management to juveniles on probation in Tulare County. To receive these services, youth must be referred by their assigned probation officer.

What we offer

Services include, but not limited to, intensive prevention and intervention counseling, life-coaching, mentoring and resource-brokering for students.

• Provide weekly small-group counseling sessions

• Coordinate activities outside of school time and campus to engage and keep student connected to positive outlets

• Connect students to positive and enriching people, programs, events and activities on campus and in community

• Work in collaboration with school-based gang prevention personnel, school administration and law enforcement

• Facilitate one-on-one intervention counseling