CYS

(Community Youth Services)

CYS is a unique community based crisis counseling and intervention service for youth and their families in Harris County.  The major focus of CYS has been with secondary school age students but elementary students can also be referred.  We have shared funding contracts with 14 Harris County school districts, and our Youth Service Specialists are officed on their campuses to insure immediate availability.

School is the major system that touches the lives of all children.  It provides the least threatening place to identify and help youth with problems that affect their attendance, classroom behavior, academic achievement and home life.  CYS deals with truancy, runaway, pregnancy, suicide, drug abuse, family conflicts and marginal child abuse.