Crossroads Family Services
Welcome to our website! We hope this will be a place that you will visit frequently, because we want to help you with services, information, and anything else that we can offer to you, your child, your family, or your clients.
Here in Cleveland County, the staff at our Emergency Youth Shelter in Norman (the only such homeless youth shelter in Cleveland County) continually amaze me with their ability to comfort and counsel children who have been so traumatized by abuse and neglect in their young lives. When children who are withdrawn and fearful literally blossom into interacting with other children and visualizing a brighter future for themselves, it shows how important the Shelter really is. The children we serve there are truly those most in need.
Our Youth and Family Counseling Program offers quality Outpatient Mental Health services for children and their family members, as well as Marital counseling to couples with children. The recent three-year accreditation results from CARF International were extremely positive, referencing our counselors’ passion for high quality services and compassion for those who receive them.
Our Juvenile Intervention Center in Norman provides a safe place for law enforcement officers in Cleveland County to drop off juveniles arrested or referred for misdemeanors or other minor offenses. This experience gives juveniles accountability for their actions while also protecting them from placement in unnecessarily restrictive settings such as detention centers.It also helps in teaching parenting skills.
Crossroads Youth and Family Services, Inc. was founded in 1969 when the first Emergency Youth Shelter in the state of Oklahoma opened in Norman under the name “Cleveland County Juvenile Shelter”.
In 1972, more services were added to this agency including probation and parole and school-based counseling services and the name was changed to the “Cleveland County Youth Bureau”.
In 1975, the Oklahoma Juvenile Code was recodified, and the Cleveland County Youth Bureau spun off three additional entities: Court Related and Community Services (CR&CS) of DHS (now Juvenile Services Unit (JSU) of the Office of Juvenile Affairs (OJA), Moore Youth & Family Services, Inc., and Juvenile Services, Inc. (now known as Center for Children and Families (CCFI). The Cleveland County Youth Bureau became “Cleveland County Youth & Family Center”, administered under county government and overseen by an Advisory Board of community volunteers appointed by the County Commissioners.
The Cleveland County Youth & Family Center operated as a branch of county government until 2002 when the Advisory Board decided to form a not-for-profit organization, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization and transformed the agency into a full-fledged non-profit under the name Crossroads Youth and Family Services, Inc. The Advisory Board in turn became a Board of Directors with full fiduciary responsibility for the organization.
Today, Crossroads Youth and Family Services continues to provide Youth Services in Cleveland County including the Emergency Youth Shelter; a variety of center-based counseling services for at-risk youth and their families; First Time Offender Programs; a variety of psycho-educational programs; a divorcing parents seminar; and other programs assisting children, adolescents, and their families.