Comprehensive Youth Services (CYS) works to eliminate child abuse and neglect in Fresno County, California through counseling, education, and other support services for at-risk children, youth, families and parents. CYS provides individual, family and group counseling, parenting classes, anger management and other prevention and treatment programs. It focuses on strengthening families and helping victims of child abuse and neglect.

1. COMPREHENSIVE
YOUTH SERVICES

2. MISSION
 Comprehensive Youth Services (CYS)
works to eliminate child abuse and
neglect and to help strengthen families in
the County of Fresno. CYS provides
individual, family and group counseling
services to children, youth and families.
CYS also offers a range of supportive
services including anger management,
parenting classes, and other prevention,
intervention and treatment services
designed to strengthen the resiliency of
children, adolescents and families.

3. POPULATIONS –AT-RISK
Comprehensive Youth Services
serves children and adolescents
that have been exposed to violence
in their homes, or that are at risk
of being abused or neglected. CYS
also addresses the needs of the
parents of families at high risk of
experiencing incidents of child
maltreatment.

4. COMMUNITY CONTEXT OF CYS
 CYS provides education on child abuse prevention
to schools, community groups, and business in
Fresno County.
 It offers on campus crisis counseling at several
high school and elementary school sites under
Fresno Unified School District and Fresno
County.
 This agency also has a neighborhood resource
center in Jefferson Elementary School in Sanger.
This center provides services and activities to
educate and develop skills that are designed to
improve the condition of children and families
living in the surrounding neighborhood.

5. COMMUNITY CONTEXT CONTINUED
 CYS is also the only social
service agency to offer FFT
(Functional Family Therapy--
an intervention program with
high success rates) in the
county of Fresno. FFT is used
with at-risk youth and with
those involved in the juvenile
justice system and their
families.

6. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
1. Board of Directors
2. Executive Director
3. Program Supervisors
4. Clinicians, Case Managers and Clerical Staff

7. AGENCY PRACTICES
 All of the efforts and services of CYS revolve
around preventing all forms of child abuse.
-parenting classes
-supervised exchanges
-supervised visits
-therapeutic supervised visits
-counseling services for parents going through a
divorce or caring for children with behavioral
problems
-anger management courses for adults

8. AGENCY PRACTICES CONTINUED
 The counseling services offered at this
agency also focus on helping victims of
child abuse and neglect heal.
 These services are also offered to children
affected by the separation or divorce of
their parents.
 Anger management courses are also
made available to adolescents.

9. MAIN SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE
 Comprehensive Youth Services
deals primarily with the social
justice issue of child welfare. This
agency exists to help prevent child
abuse among the families in Fresno
County and to help treat those
families that have been affected by
child abuse.

10. SOCIAL JUSTICE, SOCIAL WORK
VALUES, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
 CYS seeks to be an important collaborator in the
efforts to decrease the occurrence of child
maltreatment in the county of Fresno. It provides
resources that bring about empowerment to the
children that have experienced abuse.
 This agency acknowledges the importance that the
relationship between children and their family has
on the enhancement of the wellbeing of the abused
child or of the child at risk of being abused.
 CYS respects the right of children to confidentiality
(with the exception of the suspicion of child or elder
abuse, or the threat of suicide or homicide). As a
result children may feel more comfortable
expressing their feelings and concerns during
counseling without the fear that their parents or
guardians will learn about what was discussed
between them and their clinician.