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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.