The Harvard Business School Club of Philadelphia Announces 2009 Scholarship Recipients

Youth Service Inc., founded in 1951, offers a wide variety of community based care, shelter and counseling services to at risk children and their families. These services include child welfare placement services, such as foster family care, and group home placement for teen mothers and their babies. Importantly, Youth Service, Inc. runs a 30 day emergency shelter for run-aways and homeless teenagers, as well as a crisis nursery program designed to provide 24 hour emergency child care for children up to six years old. These programs are in addition to several home based and prevention programs whose focus is on maintaining the family unit within their community and diverting children and families from the formal child welfare system.