| Counseling Services | Crisis Intervention | Community at Risk Services |
| Community Education Services | Consultation | Family Resources Support |
| 1-Eighty | Information & Referral Support | Shelter Home Program |
Professional counselors are available to discuss feelings and emotions with families and help them set and reach their goals through the decision making process.Group counseling is also available whereby individuals sharing the same concerns can benefit from the support of the group.
Counselors are on call 24 hours a day to assist in serious crisis situations.To reach one of our counselors, contact the agency and a number for on-call staff will be provided.
Community At Risk Services (C.A.R.S.) program is aimed at assisting the Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA)with at-risk youth and their families.By providing services that positively reduce the risk level of identified youth to develop a supportive learning system for both youth and parents.Services offered include case management, individual or family counseling services and the promotion of educational advocacy when needed.C.A.R.S. is also available to youth that are exiting a placement facility to facilitate a successful reintegration into a community placement.The Office of Juvenile Affairs provides referrals for this program.
CHARACTER COUNTS!
PATHS
LIFESKILLS TRAINING
Okmulgee-Okfuskee County Youth Services is aware that the Character Counts!
curriculum is an essential character-building curriculum that promotes the
six pillars of character: trustworthiness, responsibility, respect, fairness,
caring and citizenship. This program will continue for students in Pre-K
through 2nd grades as the building block for our other prevention education
services. It is our belief that all students can benefit from this character
education curriculum. The teachers and students also enjoy and look forward
to this curriculum. We intend to increase the number of parent handouts in
attempt to increase parental involvement and to encourage parental reporting
as to the effectiveness of the curriculum.
The PATHS curriculum will be offered to students in the 3rd through 5th grades.
The PATHS program is designed to help elementary-age children:
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Increase self-control
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Choose effective conflict-resolution strategies
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Reject aggressive responses to frustrating situations
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Improve problem-solving skills.
The PATHS curriculum has been shown to significantly improve children's social,
emotional, and cognitive skills. Social and emotional competence is a master
skill that underlies both effective behavior and academic success. Research-based
and proven effective, the PATHS program teaches children how to change behaviors
and attitudes that contribute to violence and bullying, how to express and
control their emotions, and how to develop effective conflict-resolution
strategies.
The LifeSkills Training curriculum will be offered to students in the 6th
through 8th grade. The LifeSkills Training program is a proven, highly effective,
substance abuse
prevention/competency enhancement program designed to focus on the major
social and psychological factors promoting substance use and/or abuse. The
curriculum is based on the premise that there are multiple pathways leading
to tobacco, alcohol and drug use. The curriculum places emphasis on teaching
the students how to recognize social risk factors that may make them vulnerable.
These social risk factors include but are not limited to peer pressure, low
self-esteem, anxiety and media influence.
The LifeSkills Training curriculum is designed to help middle school students:
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Necessary skills to resist social (peer) pressures to smoke, drink and use
drugs
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Develop greater self-esteem, self mastery and self-confidence
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Effectively cope with social anxiety
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Increase their knowledge of the immediate consequences of substance abuse
At the completion of this program students will be able to demonstrate effective
communication skills, techniques for coping with anxiety and skills for developing
successful relationships. The students will also be able to identify the
myths and misconceptions about alcohol, marijuana and tobacco use. In addition,
students will be better able to determine how self-image is formed, how it
relates to their behavior and how it may be improved.
Educational and social agencies may request consultation in any area dealing with parenting and child adolescent behavior.
Available in Okmulgee County Only. The Family Resource and Support Program can help make the transition to parenthood smoother by providing information on such things as prenatal care, childbirth and delivery, daily infant care, child health and safety, positive and effective discipline, and child development, learning, and nutrition.The Parents As Teachers (PAT) program is currently being utilized to teach parent education. The program provides information to parents and families that are eager to learn how to care for their child.It helps to promote parent-child bonding and attachment.
1-Eighty(First Time Offenders Program)
As a part of a state-wide effort funded by the Oklahoma Legislature, we offer the First-Time Offenders Program as an alternative to court involvement for youth who have committed minor first time law offenses.The youth and their parents participate in a minimum fourteen hour curriculum-based program designed to allow the youth to examine the reasons for their offenses and to develop skills to assist them in finding alternative behavior patterns.
Information & Referral Support
Individuals in need of any type of service may call (918) 756-7700 to find out more information 24 hours round.
Okmulgee-Okfuskee County Youth Services, Inc. has a number of Shelter Home Families to provide short term emergency care (up to 30 days)for children.The Shelter Home Families have undergone an intensive background check and have received training prior to accepting children.They receive ongoing training and support throughout the time they serve as a Shelter Home family. The children placed into Shelter Homes are referred from the Department of Human Services, Office of Juvenile Affairs or individual referrals. If you would like to receive more information on becoming a Shelter Home family or make a referral to the Shelter Home program you may either; e-mail the program or call either of the offices.