Program Description
With more girls in the criminal justice system, YLOT has developed a gender-specific rehabprogram. From getting the girls involved in the community to intense counseling. Ms Wade believes girls’ need the security of one on one relationship more than boys and females need to build a relationship with others. YLOT is a program that allows them to communicate and have their voices heard as well as provide needed structure. With group meetings being focused on being positive without a strict program, YLOT is allowing our young adolescents to be more than just another teen statistic. They will become young women with a future.
YLOT’s goal is to recognize each girl’s issues, whether emotional and/or physical abuse, intimacy with street life, teen pregnancy, addiction, or low self-esteem (self-image) and focus on discovering relevant and creative solutions. We also encourage girls to examine their interests for the purpose of setting achievable short and long-term goals. Believing that when girls recognize the depth of their potential and govern themselves accordingly, they will become productive self-sufficient citizens and contribute to the enhancement of the community at large.
To carry out its mission, YLOT has recruited a team of committed professionals with stellar credentials in the field of counseling, criminal justice, medicine, education, and business.
