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Teen Prayer Group

Helps for Teens & Kids Aging Out

Support​

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  • Lifeset program at Youth Villages - LifeSet is an individualized, evidence-informed community-based program that is highly intensive. LifeSet specialists meet with participants face-to-face at least once each week. 
     

  • The Forgotten Initiative - TFI supports agencies by helping individuals across the nation create and grow sustainable foster care ministries in their communities. We come alongside them with tools, resources, ongoing support, and access to a network of other ministry leaders, and we do it all for FREE!

Education & Training

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  • Square One Program - a ground-breaking, intensive, outpatient substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation program for adolescents.
     

  • TN National Guard Volunteer Challenge Academy The mission is to intervene in and reclaim the lives of at-risk youth and produce program graduates with the values, life skills, education, and self-discipline necessary to succeed as productive citizens of Tennessee.
     

  • Information Technology & Engineering Technology Training  Do you know a High School Grad(s) who might be interested in a career in Information Technology (IT) and/or Engineering Technology?
     

  • Youth Leadership Knoxville - giving high school students the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of Knoxville and develop leadership skills that will encourage and inspire them to become involved and committed to their community.

  • Knoxville Fellows Program aims to equip recent college graduates for Servant Leadership in our community. Our vision is that the Knoxville Fellows Program will provide participants with the necessary tools to be God-Centered, Christ-led, intentional and active forces for redemption in our community.

Housing & Transporation​
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  • Compassion Coalition - a member-based organization that exists to help the collective church respond to the needs that often go unmet in our city. We call these “gap needs”.
     

  • Compassion Closet - provide quality clothing and tangible goods to foster children and their families. We also desire to serve birth families, aging-out youth, kinship placements, and domestic/international adoptive families as God allows and the needs arise. The Compassion Closet exists to provide quick-turn assistance to foster, kinship, adoptive, and other families in the Eastern Tennessee area.
     

  • Knox County Community Action Committee (CAC)
     

  • East Tennessee Human Resource Agency (ETHRA)
     

  • Knox Area Transit
     

  • Knox County DCS Independent Living Specialist - Tara Deer

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