The TRY Center’s Prevention Concept:
The TRY Center, Inc., is founded on a prevention concept designed to provide creative and recreational alternatives for youths in order to deter them from gang involvement, violence, truancy and other destructive behavior which puts them at risk of adjudication in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.

The TRY Center’s secondary mission is to provide family preservation programs and services to stabilize intact families and family reunification programs and services for youth in the child welfare system. At the core of our programs are adult role models and mentors. We strive to assist youth in setting goals and working towards creating a good and productive adult life.

The TRY Center Prevention Concept is designed to provide services, workshops, programs, and recreational activities so families can participate as units and strengthening their interpersonal communication skills and foster positive interaction.

The opportunities are limitless, yet motivation and encouragement is scares. In many cases, family structure is non-existent. Teenagers are head of households and grand parents are barely in their thirties. Like in the past, today’s youth are trapped between adolescence and adulthood. They are not children, yet they lack the wisdom and experience necessary to live as successfully adults. They are teenagers and young adults, without the life long experiences needed to shape progressive thinking. They know what they know, and do not understand its limitation.

Today’s Relating Youth need a safe, nurturing environment in which they can be counsel and or advised along the way. The TRY Center defines and accepts its role as that of serving to counsel and mentor to the young people. We are committed to providing the counseling and guidance necessary for the youths to make the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Parents of today’s relating youth are often in the precarious position of choosing between working and “raising” the family, Often, their focus is on making ends meet and not in strengthening the family unit.The TRY Center accepts its role as that of being committed to assisting the parents and working as their parents to help strengthen the families as units. We are committed to providing programs, services, and activities which will afford families the opportunity to be informed, to recreate and communicate with one another.