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Volunteers of America provides high quality, innovative services for disadvantaged and disconnected children and youth. Through our caring staff and dedicated volunteers we ensure the social, emotional, and academic development of young children, and empower older youth to be physically, emotionally, and mentally healthy and ready to enter adulthood. Our programs provide a continuum of care and support for young people through prevention, early intervention, crisis intervention, and long-term services. Alexandria's House for pregnant and parenting teens Crosswalk teen shelter and school Head Start early childhood development program Flaherty House transitional living facility for young men Independent Living services for teens leaving foster care Passages Family Support for parents of children with brain disorders and mental illness Project Safe Place youth outreach and prevention program Scholarship Programs for homeless youth Words Travel literacy and family strengthening for incarcerated parents and their children
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