Tahoe Youth & Family Services is a private non-profit organization whose mission is:
“To empower youth, families, and individuals through comprehensive behavioral health treatment, housing programs, and supportive services to promote well-being and independence”
Our History
Tahoe Youth & Family Services began serving youth and families as a response to a growing heroin overdose epidemic among youth in South Lake Tahoe in October 1971. It was incorporated as a non-profit organization under Section 501(c)3 on July 28, 1975, under the original name, The Awakening Peace. Staff at The Awakening Peace operated a drug and alcohol diversion program to promote sobriety in the community. Recognizing the need for counseling services, and with the absence of available resources on Lake Tahoe’s south shore, The Awakening Peace began offering low and no-cost mental health and substance abuse counseling services to the community.
The organization changed its name to Tahoe Youth & Family Services in 1989 after receiving federal grant funds to provide Basic Center Program outreach and support to homeless and runaway youth. Our organization’s current operations include, but are not limited to:
Mental Health Counseling Offered
Support Programs Offered
The organization changed its name to Tahoe Youth & Family Services in 1989 after receiving federal grant funds to provide Basic Center Program outreach and support to homeless and runaway youth. Our organization’s current operations include, but are not limited to:
Mental Health Counseling Offered
- Mental Health Assessments
- Individual Assessments
- Individual Mental Health Counseling
- Family Counseling
- Individual Counseling for School Age Children
- Individual Substance Abuse Counseling
Support Programs Offered
- Referrals between community-based and governmental agencies through Memorandum of Understandings and contract
- Rapid Rehousing Program to connect transitional aged youth experiencing homelessness, ages 18 - 24
- Transitional Living Program for young adults, ages 16 - 21
- Transitional Living Program + for adults, ages 21 - 24