Our Mission:

The Town of Huntington Youth Bureau is a comprehensive system of contracted programs, services and agencies for youth and families in the Town of Huntington.  The Huntington Youth Bureau is a model system and was the first Youth Bureau in New York State to offer such coordinated services. 

The not-for-profit arm of the Huntington Youth Bureau is the 

The Huntington Youth Bureau Youth Development Research Institute, Inc. (The Institute). The Institute was established in 1979, and has as its primary goal the creation, promotion and implementation of programs and services, which stresses youth development and meets the expressed and demonstrated needs of youth and their families in the Town of Huntington. 

HYB Research Institute Town Projects include: 

Drug & Alcohol Counseling Center, a comprehensive drug and alcohol counseling / education and prevention project; 

Project Excel, the quintessential youth development project, offering youth opportunities for service to the community, employment and employability skills development, tutoring, GED, training in the creative arts, college prep, a theater arts and improvisational drama program, leading to pride, self-discovery and self-expression as well as the chance to work together in intergenerational programs that serve the community; 

Youth Court, training youth to be the lawyers, judges, jurors in a court for, of and by youth; and 

Sanctuary, a program which offers prevention services, crisis intervention and counseling for youth who are presently, or at-risk of becoming, runaways or homeless; and 

Community and Schools Together (C.A.S.T.), (a joint project of The Institute and Tri Community and Youth Agency), a violence prevention and family strengthening program. 

In addition to special town wide projects, the Huntington Youth Bureau system includes three neighborhood-based community and youth agencies (CYAs). These CYAs are 

Tri Community and Youth Agency, 

Youth Directions and Alternatives, and 

REACH Community and Youth Agency.  

They provide a broad spectrum of services, ranging from counseling to after-school, weekend and summer cultural and recreational activities. Each CYA is a private, non-profit community-based organization, overseen by a Board of Directors that is composed of both youth and adults and represents the diverse needs, cultures and interests of the community. 

The Huntington Youth Bureau system also includes a shared partnership with Family Service League called F.A.C.I.L.E., which stands for and provides Family Advocacy, Crisis Intervention and Life Education.