St. John’s Community Services LARRY RUSSOCK PROGRAM DIRECTOR Lrussock@sjcs.org

Our Services Supported Employment 1:1 community based, includes Created for people with the most significant disabilities 1:1 community based, includes Discovery Job Finding Job Placement On the job support Career Development Guided Group Discovery Model helping to facilitate participants in their Discovery process Meets for 5-6 sessions, helps participants develop their own vocational profile Helps identify next steps, needed level of support and type of intervention Speak to Pre-ETS, specifics of OVR and adult/youth individual services

Our Work in Philadelphia Guided Group Discovery Our Brothers’ Place Emergency Shelter The Village of Arts and Humanities New Life Day Drop-in Center Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) Pilot with Safe Havens and Journey of Hope housing programs Pre-ETS High Schools in neighborhoods with high intergenerational poverty Northeast Treatment Center Evening Reporting Center In Home Detention In Planning Juvenile Justice Detention Center Opportunity Network (Alternative Schools) 2nd Pilot with DBH including PhilaWorks, CareerLink, Vocational Rehabilitation and LEAD Center

Philadelphia: - Child poverty Rate at 37% (Pew Charitable Trust) - 2nd hungriest Congressional District in the country (Census Data) - Family Homelessness: More than 4500 families serviced a year; more than 4500 are turned away each year (The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Homeless Services ) - Adverse Childhood Experiences: Multiple zip-codes and police districts where 60% of the residents have ACEs score of 4 or more (PATF) - Youth Homelessness: at least 4,000 between the ages of 14 and 19 (YRBS) - Most homicides (victims and perps) are youth ages 11-24 and are predominantly African American Males (DOJ)