Meet Youth Crossroads’ Gun Violence Prevention Team Youth Crossroads’ Board of Directors has approved a new strategic plan that will guide the organization over the…
Meet Youth Crossroads’ Gun Violence Prevention Team While Youth Crossroads counseling and youth development staff have been on the frontlines of the gun violence epidemic…
Trauma-Informed Care Team To Reduce Gun Violence The statistics are unbelievably grim. Firearm violence has become the leading cause of death of children in our…
How COVID-19 Continues to Impact our Students In January, President Biden announced that the national public health emergency declarations related to the COVID-19 pandemic would…
New CDC Report Shows Teen Girls in US “Engulfed in Growing Wave of Violence and Trauma” A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease…
YC Counseling Staff Receive Peace Circle Training Youth Crossroads’ clinical staff received training this month to run Peace Circles to help address violence in our…
Support Youth Crossroads This Holiday Season! Over the past several months, Youth Crossroads has been awarded several large grants from the State of Illinois and Cook…
There are countless students who have shared with me that their childhood friends and family members were shot and killed before they even finished eighth…
I started at Youth Crossroads when I was a freshman at Morton East High School. I didn’t want to just come home after-school and do…
Jacqueline sought counseling support from Youth Crossroads as a sophomore at Morton East High School to deal with anxiety, depression and trauma. Two areas of…