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- EIN 80-0004598
- (888) 533-4432
- 12233 Sw 55th St Ste 801 Cooper City FL 33330-3303 USA
- www.harmonydevelopmentcenter.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services
Mission: The organization's mission is to empower youth and family to thrive as productive, peaceful members of our community. The organization provides specialized diversion services to the youth between the ages of eleven and seventeen and their families from all racial and ethnic groups in the city of lauderhill and southwestern broward county.
Programs: Youth in action (yia) provides year round after-school and summer programming for at-risk youth that strengthen protective factors by helping youth develop resiliency, positive outlook, health, family dynamics, pro-social relationships with peers and adults, positive decision making skills, strong community attachment, and academic and future career success. This program also reduces risk factors related to teen pregnancy, delinquency, substance abuse, family dysfunction, mental and physical health problems, negative peer associations, and school failure.
families on commitment for understanding and solutions (focus)- focus programs include diversion and civil citation. They provide efficient and innovative alternatives for children who commit non-serious delinquent acts to ensure swift and appropriate progress changes to their behavior such as reduced dysfunctional behavior and development of new coping mechanism. They also provide public saftey (monitoring offender at home and school, improve behaviors, establish curfews if needed, etc.
bridge to new opportunities (bno) provides behavioral health counseling and life caoching services to youth with mental health and/or substance abuse problems who are at risk of initial or subsequent involvement with juvenile justice system.
kinship initiative supportive services (kiss)