1. St. John’s Community Services
LARRY RUSSOCK
PROGRAM DIRECTOR

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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 and are predominantly African American Males (DOJ)