Through Social Advocates for Youth - SAY, we provide free school-based and community services to help teens minimize risky behavior, make healthy choices and work through difficulties caused by the tensions of adolescence.
Through Social Advocates for Youth - SAY, we provide free school-based and community services to help teens minimize risky behavior, make healthy choices and work through difficulties caused by the tensions of adolescence.
Being a teenager has lots of responsibilities and challenges. The demands of school increase and students have to learn how to balance studying with extra curricular activities and family/friend time. Often teens have to navigate new social encounters and peer pressure.
Social Advocates for Youth - SAY helps support parents and schools guide teens through this difficult time. Grant funded, SAY is a free program that educates and empowers teens to minimize risky behavior while making healthy/good choices, and finding alternative highs.
In the schools, SAY master’s level social workers and counselors work as a team with school administrators and counselors to provide services such as mediation, intervention and support to students and families; group and individual counseling; and classroom presentations on prevention topics. Through a coalition of community representatives and parents, we provide programs and support throughout Greater Cleveland to:
Teens are exposed to new experiences every day that can cause emotional or behaviors issues. Our SAY program specifically helps parents and teens work through a variety of issues including those listed here.