Prevention and Youth Services Drug Education Center

Mission Statement

The mission of the Saginaw County Youth Protection Council is "To demonstrate the value of services in the prevention of juvenile delinquency, emotional disturbance, mental illness, continued family disintegration and other problems increasingly endangering the lives and well being of our children." This mission promotes a "prevention" philosophy and specifically the need to reach out to high risk populations to offer such services. This philosophy of prevention is embedded in programs of the Saginaw County Youth Protection Council: PAYS-substance abuse prevention; Innerlink-delinquency prevention; Teen Parent Services-child abuse/neglect prevention. Further, agency services are designed to empower program participants to have them become active in learning and in using new skills that will promote a better lifestyle for themselves and/or other family members.