Results: ATC has reached 5,200 young people, and has worked one-on-one with 975 youth in intensive counseling relationships.
Target demographics: * Almost all of our clients (98%) live in poverty
* 77% are unemployed
* 12% are immigrants, and 5% are monolingual Spanish speakers
Ethnic background:
* 51% African-American
* 21% white
* 18% Latino
* 10% other ethnic and racial categories
About 66% of our clients are male, 33% female, and 1% transgender
Geographic areas served: San Francisco
Programs: At the crossroads's (atc) work has four basic components:1) nighttime street outreach, where we meet clients' basic needs by distributing supplies, and develop counseling relationships that will lead to them moving forward in their lives. 2) one-to-one counseling, which empowers clients to identify and achieve goals, helping them move beyond the streets once and for all. 3) collaboration, which allows our clients to successfully access services that can address their diverse needs, and provides support to those agencies that work with our clients. 4) community education, which works to ensure that there is a continuum of care that meets the needs of all disconnected youth in san francisco and beyond.
the youth that atc works with are disconnected from people and organizations that can help them lead healthier lives. They do not have consistent contact with people or services which might help them think about their lives, create realistic plans to meet their goals, or connect them with the resources necessary to follow through on their plans. They do not access traditional services, and consequently are completely isolated on the streets. Atc sees 1,000 unduplicated youth on the streets each year during nighttime outreach and 275 a year in our daytime counseling.
atc is on the streets three nights a week in each of two neighborhoods in san francisco, the mission and downtown/tenderloin. We are out from approximately 7:30-11 pm, walking the streets. We offer our daytime one-to-one counseling meetings five days a week, between 10 am and 8 pm. We will work with the same individual client up to four times a week. We work with clients for as long as they want, until they hit their mid-thirties. We continue to work with our clients after they get off the street. There are more than 50 clients who we have been working with for the past 10 years; the majority has moved beyond the streets.