Family & Youth Services Bureau

The Tot Shop, which supplies families in need with essential supplies for children from infants to five years old, serves over 550 families each year. But as we head into the winter season, the Tot Shop has only three winter coats in stock. Community...

Setting and achieving goals is a core experience we include in all of our programs and services at the Family & Youth Services Bureau. As CEO Lisa Jordan states, “One of the first things we do when meeting with a new client is create attainable...

The Family & Youth Services Bureau presents a Family Life Workshop titled “Behavior as Communication,” held on Thursday, September 27, 6 to 7 pm, at the Family & Youth Services Bureau’s downtown Valparaiso office at 253 W. Lincolnway....

After 40 years of service to the Porter County community, Dennis Morgan, President and CEO and founder of the Family & Youth Services Bureau is retiring effective September 30, 2012. With Dennis’ retirement, Lisa Jordan, 16-year veteran of the...

The CASA program, Court Appointed Special Advocates, announces the next training session for Porter County volunteers that will begin in October 2012. A CASA is a trained community volunteer who is appointed by the Juvenile Court to represent the...

The contributions we receive from donors are invested in one of our many services like Strengthening Families. This program brings all members of a family—parents, teens and young children—together once or twice a week to discuss issues such as...

Recently the 90-member String-A-Long Quilt Guild held a baby shower—not for one of its members or a relative, but for the Tot Shop, one of the programs of the Family & Youth Services Bureau. “Many of us in the group don’t have babies at...

A shy, troubled teenager when she started the program Sally (not her real name) is now back in school and gainfully employed at a local restaurant. The in-between of the story is Sally’s remarkable transformation through the Family & Youth...

Our Early Intervention Programs (Healthy Families and Family Connections) are looking for some craft supplies to use as learning tools for toddlers. These are common household items you may have stored in a cupboard, or they may be destined for the...

“I often begin the session with a simple question: what is going on in your family’s life this week?” says Dan Rau, Clinical Services Counselor. Rau facilitates the Parent’s Group at Family & Youth Services Bureau, a ten session group...