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Street Outreach (SOP) Program
Ambassadors for Christ
Description
The AFC- Pine Bluff Street Outreach Program aims to help young people get off the streets. To that end, the program promotes efforts to build relationships between street outreach workers and runaway, homeless and street youth. The program also focuses on moving youth into stable housing and preparing them for independence. The program’s ultimate goal is to prevent the sexual abuse or exploitation of young people living on the streets or in unstable housing.
AFC has more than 10 years of experience offering these services to youth in Houston, Texas, where it utilizes a comprehensive victim-centered services model through the ACF-FYSB funded Street Outreach Program grant. Because of the pervasive presence of runaway and homeless youth (RHYs) and victims of human trafficking in Pine Bluff and Little Rock, Arkansas, AFC was recently (October 2017) awarded a second Street Outreach Program grant to replicate services in that area. The purpose of the program is to:
Offer information, skills and resources to help RHYs break dysfunctional cycles that keep them street dependent.
RHYs will become less vulnerable to sexual exploitation (human trafficking) and abuse, have fewer arrests related to substance abuse and/or violent behavior and increase their ability to trust others.
RHYs will set healthier boundaries, which promote their acceptance of counseling, shelter, and other supports. These services very often lead to family resolution and allow street youth to cease reliving past traumas and start living healthy, productive lives.
AFC has more than 10 years of experience offering these services to youth in Houston, Texas, where it utilizes a comprehensive victim-centered services model through the ACF-FYSB funded Street Outreach Program grant. Because of the pervasive presence of runaway and homeless youth (RHYs) and victims of human trafficking in Pine Bluff and Little Rock, Arkansas, AFC was recently (October 2017) awarded a second Street Outreach Program grant to replicate services in that area. The purpose of the program is to:
Offer information, skills and resources to help RHYs break dysfunctional cycles that keep them street dependent.
RHYs will become less vulnerable to sexual exploitation (human trafficking) and abuse, have fewer arrests related to substance abuse and/or violent behavior and increase their ability to trust others.
RHYs will set healthier boundaries, which promote their acceptance of counseling, shelter, and other supports. These services very often lead to family resolution and allow street youth to cease reliving past traumas and start living healthy, productive lives.