Community Service - Portsmouth, Friends of the Portsmouth Juvenile Court
1345 Court Street, Suite 1624, Portsmouth, VA 23704
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Portsmouth City, VA
Description
FRIENDS' Community Service (FCS) provides an alternative to incarceration for non-violent juveniles. Youth between the ages of 13 and 17 are court-ordered or referred to FCS to perform as little as 10 or as many as 100 community service hours. The goal of the program is to hold teenage offenders responsible for their behavior and teach them how to make better choices. Friends of the Portsmouth Juvenile Court has partnered with several local organizations that serve as work sites. These sites allow teenagers referred to the program to complete community service hours at their facility. In many cases, volunteers are used to supervise the teenage offenders.
What's Here
Providing organization
Friends of the Portsmouth Juvenile Court, Inc.
Friends of the Portsmouth Juvenile Court (FRIENDS) offers programs to support families and youth transitioning through the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. We work with judges and juvenile probation officers to help prevent delinquency, child abuse, and neglect. FRIENDS supports court-involved youth and families by providing advocacy, supervision, and support services through our Court Appointed Special Advocate program, our Community Service Program, or our ACT NOW Portsmouth gun violence intervention program.