Youth Programs and Services

Services may change monthly and may be provided on a rotating schedule.
Please call your local Youth Day Reporting Center for more information.

Victim’s Awareness: Identifies the self-impact of behavior consequences, and impact of victims, victim’s families and the community as a whole to consider ways to make amends for the harm caused.

Healthy Relationships: Youth group discussion on maintaining healthy relationships.

Drug and Alcohol: Assists participants in understanding the dangers of continued drug use/abuse and stresses importance of making more positive choices.

Building Skills: Provides youth with hands-on training on woodshop and landscaping.

Anger Management: An evidence-based juvenile curriculum highly successful with offenders in the criminal justice system that provides coping mechanisms with dealing with aggressive tendencies. Assists individuals in learning how to manage emotions and avoid confrontational situations.

Forklift/OSHA Certification: 36 hours of safety certification training on the use of sit down, walkie stacker, stand up, and stock picker forklifts.

Basketball Skills Camp: Intermediate and Beginner basketball skills and fundamentals for quickness, agility, and teamwork skills.

Skills and Agility: Intermediate and Beginner program to improve mobility, flexibility, quickness, acceleration, mental toughness, and balance.

Food Handler’s Card: A training program that prepare food handler’s to enter the workforce by providing required food safety information per the regulations of the worker’s state or local government.

Computer Office Skills: 200 hours of training in Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point, Google basics, and outlook. Additional training includes: Customer service, business etiquette, workplace attitudes, and time management.

Girls Circle: Mentoring/Motivational, gender specific for youth who identify with female development from 9-18 years of age.

Boys Council: Mentoring and Motivational gender specific for youth who identify with male development to promote their safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years.

Youth Council: Youth learn about ways to bring change by discussing steps, concerns, and challenges.

Petty Theft: Focuses on reasons people shoplift, and how to make better choices in similar situations.

Weapons Diversion: Discussions about values, attitudes, weapons, victimization, and managing conflict.

Truancy: Youth discover the importance of school and assists them with setting goals towards graduation.

Gang Awareness: Youth examine why people join gangs, explores alternative methods of achieving social and economic goals, and provides an insight into the consequences of gang involvement.

Community Service: The Probation Youth Community Service program, launched in 2019. Youth and youth groups participate in unpaid community service projects for the benefit and betterment of their community. Collaborations with local community, faith-based partners and county agencies offer opportunities for youth to participate in food drives, homeless outreach activities, book drives services learning projects for the community to restore relationships and connect youth to their communities.

Additional DRC Services:

  • Regional Occupational Programs, in conjunction with SB County Superintendent of Schools
  • Parent Project (English and Spanish)
  • Smart Start referrals to California Highway Patrol
  • Referrals to Family and Individual Counseling
  • Education and Absence Support Inventions (EASI)
  • Performing Arts/ Music Program
  • Art Appreciation
  • Youth Training and Employment Preparation
  • Extracurricular Activities
  • Recreational Opportunities
  • Community Events and Resources
  • Hygiene and Clothing Closets
  • Summer Day Camps
  • Holiday Events
  • Family Nights

Aspire/ FOCUS: A cognitive-behavioral change program

Aggression Replacement Training (ART): A psycho-educational intervention designed to alter behavior that incorporates three specific interventions: Skill-streaming, Anger-Control, and Moral Reasoning Training.

Hip Hop Shop: A youth enrichment program that develops creativity and skills in the art of music.

H.I.I.T: High Intensity interval training, for physical well-being

Life Skills: Group discussions that provides tips, and tools on everyday life.

Real Talk: Group discussions that involve real life stories with at-risk youth to help them make better choices.

Regional Occupational Program (ROP): Provides building employable skills such as web making, building ponds, and working with tools.

Tutoring: Educational skills that will assist youth with academic improvement.

Academy of Arts: Encourages youth to embrace creativity.

Aspire: A cognitive-behavioral change program

Aggression Replacement Training (ART): A psycho-educational intervention designed to alter behavior that incorporates three specific interventions: Skill-streaming, Anger-Control, and Moral Reasoning Training.

Business Development: Educational Life Skills

Chords: A youth enrichment program that develops creativity and skills in the art of music.

Circle Keepers: A group approach for emotional well-being with trauma informed care.

Community Resiliency Model (CRM): A skills-based, stabilization program that helps re-set balance.

Forward Thinking: A cognitive-behavioral interactive journaling system for youth that addresses various topics such as: Victim Awareness, Responsible Behavior, Family Ties, Self-control, Peer Relationships for positive behavioral change.

Gang Intervention: Group discussions that supports intervention strategies to help youth discontinue involvement in gangs.

H.I.I.T: High Intensity interval training, for physical well-being

Life Skills: Group discussions that provides tips, and tools on everyday life.

Matrix Group: A structured program for treating people who abuse drugs or are dependent on stimulant drugs.

Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT): A group cognitive-behavioral approach that seeks to decrease recidivism.

Real Talk: Group discussions that involve real life stories with at-risk youth to help them make better choices.

Seeking Safety: A group or individual setting that focuses on coping skills to help attain safety from trauma or substance abuse.

Tutoring and College Classes: Educational skills that will assist youth with academic improvement.

Extracurricular activities:

  • Basketball League
  • Handball League
  • PE/Gym
  • Movie Night
  • Bible study
  • Chess Club
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Zen Garden
  • Poetry Night
  • Dog Therapy

The Independent Living Program (ILP) provides services to youth in and out of placement.  ILP provides youth workshops such as education and employment conferences and life skills classes and access to events to educate and assist youth and young adults who are released from out-of-home placement.Each year ILP strives to find new and innovative ways to assist youth toward self-sufficiency.  ILP Probation Officers work with the youth to create a Transitional Independent Living Plan (TILP), which details goals for the successful transition toward adulthood.   

What is a TILP?

A Transitional Independent Living Plan (TILP) is developed by the youth and their probation officer, which details the goals to be met to successfully transition toward adulthood. The plan also identifies activities necessary to meet goals and who will help the youth achieve these goals.

Who is eligible?

  • Youth who had a placement order between the ages of 16-18
  • Youth who were placed in a Title IVE placement from ages 16-18 are eligible for ILP services while placed and after placement until their 21st birthday
  • Youth placed in a non Title IVE placement like a Camp or Ranch between the ages of 16-18 are eligible after leaving or completing this program
  • Youth who were/are 16 years of age, up to 18 years of age and in receipt of the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (KinGap) assistance

How do I obtain ILP services?

  1. Contact your probation officer or ILP Unit to find out if you are eligible: email
  2. Request a referral from your probation officer for ILP services
  3. Meet with your probation officer to complete the Ansell Casey Assessment and TILP
  4. Follow up with ILP for an ILP orientation appointment
  5. Stay connected and stay involved with ILP.  Show up to ILP events, ask for what you need and want, and start building the life that you want to live.

What Housing Resources does ILP offer?
ILP can refer youth to several types of transitional housing:

  • THP-PLUS: Youth reside in individual apartments in the community.  These apartments are provided for youth ages 18 to 24, for a total of 24 months. The apartments are within San Bernardino County.  Other options are for transitional housing include host families, renting a room from a former foster family, relative or friend.  Must have emancipated out of foster care at 18.
  • THP+FC: Provides long-term affordable housing and case management services in a form of supervised apartment living for non-minor dependents on AB12 (ages 18-21), who are participating in educational and employment opportunities.  Also must have current placement order.
  • Emergency Housing Services – Emergency housing assistance through referrals to temporary or long-term shelter programs.

How do I contact ILP?

Address: 150 West 5th Street, San Bernardino, CA 92415
Email: ILP@prob.sbcounty.gov
ILP Coordinator
: Michelle Calderon Navarro, (909) 383-2907 (Office), (909) 454-8713 (Cell)
ILP Recruiter
: Patty Wagner, (909)383-2911 (Office), (909) 241-7479 (Cell)

Wraparound is a program intended to direct treatment resources to the entire family not just supervised youth.  The offered resources are dependent on the needs and progress of the youth and the family.  The program provides individualized, comprehensive, community-based services and support to children and adolescents with serious emotional and/or behavioral disturbances.  The goal is to provide a team that will work together to keep the youth in the home and maintain compliance with probation terms and conditions.  The team members include the Probation Department, Children and Family Services, Behavioral Health, and community providers, who offer services for the program.  Probation Officers coordinate with those providers and support agencies to address emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs that have resulted in criminal conduct.

The goal of the Gender Responsive Adolescent Caseload Enrichment (GRACE) Program is to have a positive impact on the increasing population of female juvenile offenders and to reduce recidivism and out-of-home placement.  This program provides specialized services to adolescent female probationers with a history of trauma, substance abuse, or runaway behaviors.  The program offers education opportunities as well as creative and innovative methods to complete community service.