I have been involved with Seton Youth Shelters since moving to Virginia Beach as the rector of St. Aidan's Episcopal Church. The girl's shelter is housed on the corner of our property and we are dedicated to helping this important program with touches the lives of thousands of children succeed. The work is important and brings these youth a much brighter future.
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- EIN 54-1250483
- 757.963.5795
- 101 N Lynnhaven Rd Ste 101 Virginia Beach VA 23452 USA
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Human Services, Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Mission: Seton Youth Shelters, begun in 1985, provides residential shelter to runaway and homeless youth, ages 9-18. We have grown to include school-based and out-client (non-residential) counseling, street outreach, and mentoring programs.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 10,000 youth
Geographic areas served: Seton Youth Shelters shall provide a safe haven, counseling and outreach services, 24 hours per day without charge, to assist youth in crisis throughout Hampton Roads, with the goal of reuniting families.
Programs: Serving all of Hampton Roads, Seton Youth Shelters provides 24-hour emergency shelter for youth ages 9-17 years old and in special cases for 18 year olds. This program serves runaway/homeless youth and youth in crisis within their family, school and/or community. Seton Youth Shelters operates two shelters in Virginia Beach, one for boys and the other for girls. In our shelters, residents are provided youth advocacy and individual/family crisis counseling. Case management activities facilitate coordination of services, community referrals and aftercare follow-up. Youth who enter the shelter program attend local public schools unless parents provide transportation to their home school. Our shelters provide counseling that address a variety of topics and serve to increase youth awareness of community resources. Seton Youth Shelters has operated its Street Outreach Program since January 1999. It all began with collaboration between Seton Youth Shelters, Stand Up For Kids, and the Virginia Beach United Methodist Church, which continues to this day. Working together, we were able to provide trained professionals and volunteers to open a weekly teen drop-in center named The Crow’s Nest at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. Since that time Seton Youth Shelters’ Street Outreach Program has developed a diverse, multi-faceted positive youth development approach to filling the service gap to ensure accessibility of crisis services to the youth of Hampton Roads and their families. Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) Program: Making Children a Priority: An incarceration affects the entire family. The child may have a hard time adjusting to a change in the family structure or feel uneasy about explaining the situation to well-meaning peers and adults. Father and son playing basketballThe MCP program is FREE and available to youth 4 to 18 years old who have been affected by the incarceration (past or present) of someone in their lives. Each child is paired with an adult who takes on the role of a friend- NOT a substitute parent.