Definition

StreetWorkers is a community outreach service committed to provide non-traditional intervention services to youth in our community as well as prevention services to youth identified as “high-risk” for delinquency or truancy.

Objective

Using the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets, we will assist youth and their guardian/family in identifying strengths, needs, current resources available and resources needed in order to build assets for the youth and family.

Two Streetworkers Participants, Jennifer and Martha, at Chuck E. Cheese's.

Goals

• Engage youth in pro-social behavior in school and all settings
• Build assets of youth and families by getting them connected to resources in the community
• Build and improve achievement motivation and increase positive view of personal future
• Build focus on educational achievement by providing in-school and after-school mentoring services, access to tutoring and homework help
• Help youth in the transition from alternative school back to home school by improving or establishing a sense of purpose, increasing positive view of personal future related to academic achievement

Duties will include but not limited to

• Contact with families, schools, local service providers, court/law enforcement officials and community resource representatives that may be significant in providing support.
• Goal setting – (typically work six months with the referred youth and his/her family, along with the referral source and any other collateral agencies to develop a written plan to increase the assets for that youth)
• Referrals to Community Agencies
• Group activities - structured and individualized recreational activities all focused on building assets as noted in the youth’s plan (created while meeting with youth in the evenings and weekends and conducting support check-ins in students’ homes and neighborhoods)
• Creating a contextual framework for youth in processing issues that are interfering with the youth’s ability to be successful in school, home, or community settings
• Adhere to a flexible schedule to meet the needs of clientele referred
  

Contact Information

Elbia Altamirez

Streetworker Coordinator

e.altamirez@ymcanwnc.org

(336) 830-3009 workcell

Kerry Wiggins

Streetworker

k.wiggins@ymcanwnc.org

(336) 409-3878 work cell

Community Outreach Services YMCA

901 Waterworks Rd

Winston Salem, NC 27101

(336) 722-9772 ext 244