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Juvenile Justice (Youth Guidance)
The YFC Youth Guidance ministry - through institutional, juvenile justice, or social service agency
contacts - connects trained adults with young people to help them make good choices and establish
a solid foundation in life. Like every ministry of YFC, Youth Guidance seeks to engage these young
people wherever they are found as life-long followers of Jesus Christ. It is estimated that 25% of our
young people today are deemed "at-risk youth," according to the National Research Council
Panel
on High-Risk Youth (1995). The National Youth Guidance Department has defined an at-risk young
person as a young person who has experienced significant damage and is likely to damage the lives
of others. A "significantly damaged life" is defined as the presence of negative influences
(or the
absence of positive influences) that increase the likelihood of destructive life choices.
Youth for Christ visits the Farmington Children’s Home every week with a program that allows 10-20
kids to study and discuss God’s Word together. Today’s society might label them as “troubled”
but
it’s for them that Christ came.
Current meetings are every Wednesday from 2.00-3.00.
For more information please contact Rick Augustine at 747-1705
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