Council On At-Risk Youth

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Council On At-Risk Youth

Council On At-Risk Youth (CARY) is a social service organization with a mission to serve the highest-risk youth in Central Texas. With an effort to increase school safety and to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, CARY provides services to students in 12 middle and high schools across four school districts in Central Texas. CARY also serves Adolescents who have a history of trauma, poverty, abuse, racial discrimination, and special needs are over-represented in the justice system. They aim to stop school suspensions, drop out, juvenile justice involvement, and future issues in adulthood like unemployment, reliance on welfare, and imprisonment. CARY’s evidence-based Youth Violence Prevention Curriculum provides life skills training, anger management training, one-on-one counseling, group counseling, and confidence-building field. The PeaceRox Program is a voluntary group to focus on social skills training and individual coaching to teach kids new skills as alternatives to aggression and campus violence. Individual sessions are also provided for each student on a monthly basis in combination with groups.

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