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Causes: Children & Youth, Counseling, Family Counseling, Mental Health
Mission: It is the mission of family and youth counseling agency to provide affordable and professional support through programs and services dedicated to advocacy, counseling, and education for the people of southwest louisiana.
Programs: The agencys licensed and professionally credentialed clinicians and para-professionals provide a wide range of constructive and life-changing services in the form of counseling, consultation, and education to benefit individuals, couples, and families in swla. Based on the belief that all individuals prossess the ability to solve their own challenges and live a healthy life when support is available, counselors and case managers utitize a strength-based, client-directed, and outcome-informed approach. The overriding goal is to support and encourage the development of greater well-being amoung the citizens of swla.
childrens advocacy center, performance employee assistance, business services, leadership center for youth, autism support alliance, and children and families action network.
court appointed special advocates (casa) are volunteers who speak in court for a childs best interest. Judges appoint a casa volunteer to an abused or neglected child who has been removed from his or her home. The casa volunteer helps to ensure that the child receives appropriate care, whether from a foster home or relatives home while he or she is in the court system. Volunteers are trained and supported by casa staff.