"The High Risk Youth Offender Reentry and Family Strengthening Initiative"

    A new program designed specifically for high risk youth will be the focus of this Sunday’s WBRE-TV Eyewitness Newsmakers with Senior Producer Jayne Ann Bugda and Anchorman Andy Mehalshick.

   “The High Risk Youth Offender Reentry and Family Strengthening Initiative” is a program sponsored by the Family Service Association of Wyoming Valley.

     Bugda and Mehalshick will have as their guests the program director, Amy L. Freeman, MSW, LSW and Dr. Dennis Gourley, the Executive Director of the Family Services Association of Wyoming Valley.

    The new program was established through grant.  It helps young people who have been in rehabilitation or juvenile detention or facing other problems get their young lives back on track.

     Freeman and Gourley will explain how the program uses a Target Case Management Model that enlists community resources and family support to help the teen.  Program personnel are also accessible to the youngster and their family 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

     WBRE-TV Eyewitness Newsmakers will air Sunday, August 31^st at 5:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.  The program will repeat on Sunday, September 7^th at 5:30 a.m.

       FOR MORE INFORMATION   :  ON THE HIGH RISK YOUTH OFFENDER REENTRY AND FAMILY STRENGTHENING INITIATIVE

    CALL:  (570) 823-5144  OR 1-888-829-1341

       http://www.fsawv.org/