Family and Youth Counseling Agency
Family and Youth Counseling Agency, known as Family & Youth, is a nonprofit organization in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It combines counseling, advocacy and education through programmes for individuals, couples, families and young people in Southwest Louisiana.
Organization profile
- Organization type
- Disability & community health organization
- Headquarters / base
- Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
- Geographic scope
- Southwest Louisiana
Medical focus
Activities
Population served
A community organization in Lake Charles
Established in 1970, Family & Youth describes a mission of affordable professional support through counseling, advocacy and education. Its base is at 220 Louie Street in Lake Charles. The organization serves Southwest Louisiana and presents its work around the strengths of individuals, families and communities.
Its services are organized through named divisions. This structure allows counseling to sit alongside child advocacy, youth leadership and other forms of community support while keeping their functions distinct.
The Shannon Cox Counseling Center
The Shannon Cox Counseling Center is the agency’s counseling division. Its published services include individual, couple and family counseling, grief counseling, parenting education, anger-management education and behavioral-health consultation. It also identifies support for postpartum depression and anxiety.
The center describes a client-directed approach that considers people’s own goals and resources. Counseling, consultation and professional education have different purposes within that work: direct sessions support clients, while training and consultation can support people working with families or organizations.
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