Illinois Youth Advocate Program

Youth Outreach Services (YOS) is a Chicago-based non-profit organization dedicated to partnering with at-risk youth and their families to foster personal development and resilience. Since its inception in 1959, YOS has positively impacted over 350,000 youths, providing community-based support in areas such as counseling, juvenile justice, and various prevention services. With a commitment to empowering young individuals to overcome challenges like abuse, substance use, and homelessness, YOS serves approximately 2,500 youths each year across 23 to 40 neighborhoods in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. The organization strives to inspire confidence, competence, and dignity in all the youths and families it serves. Generated from the website

Established in 1972, OMNI Youth Services is a professional youth service organization that offers support, guidance and intervention to at-risk youths. It serves more than 15,000 individuals. The organization offers counseling, 24-hour crisis intervention, substance abuse prevention and treatment, youth and parent mentoring, family preservation, juvenile justice and youth development services. It conducts psychological tests for a range of mental illnesses, including depression and active suicidal tendencies. The organization s teen parenting program is offered in coordination with the pregnant and parenting teenage wards and offers ongoing family planning, parenting classes, education and employment assistance. Its youth mentor program is a drug, alcohol, tobacco and negative behavior prevention program that provides opportunities for one-to-one mentoring relationships between youths and positive adult volunteers. OMNI Youth Services is located in Buffalo Grove, Ill.