Commitment to Equity
In accordance with Chief Justice Loretta H. Rush’s Statement on Race and Equity, the Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County is committed to addressing and mitigating racial injustice both in our agency as well as in our community.
We have expressed this commitment over the years in the following ways:
• All staff members of the Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County attend an annual Implicit Bias Training.
• As the hosts of the annual Monroe County Childhood Conditions Summit, we center issues of equity and inclusion, the theme of our 2019 Summit.A Commitment to Equity from the Youth Services Bureau of Monroe County
• We support our subcommittee, Building a Thriving Compassionate Community (BTCC)’s Implicit Bias Community of Practice in offering Implicit Bias Trainings; including 19 trainings throughout the community in 2019.
• In 2020, we are offering Crossroads Anti-Racist Training and Organizing’s “Introduction to Systemic Racism” in partnership with Monroe County Probation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) to 80 community members.
Contact Us
- Phone: (812) 349-2506
- Fax:
(812) 349-2892 - Staff Directory
- Administration: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Mon-Fri
Shelter: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
