Programs & Services

The Prince George’s County Commission for Children, Youth and Families, also known as the Local Management Board (LMB), provides funding for the following programs and services, including but not limited to:

After School Programs (Funded through GOC)
The programs focus on academic enhancement, social and emotional development, and character building to enhance and build resiliency in the youth of Prince Georges County.

Local Access Mechanism/Single Point of Access (Funded through GOC)
The Prince George’s Child Connection Services program provides information & referral services and systems navigation services to children and families to identify and connect to care coordination and resources in the community. 1-866-533-0680

Local Coordinating Council (LCC) (Funded through GOC)
The LCC is a collaborative body of child serving agencies that review the plans of care for youth with intensive needs referred for residential placement due to behavioral, educational, developmental, or mental health challenges. Click here for LCC FAQs.

Youth Services Bureaus (Funded through GOC)
The program provides community based prevention and early intervention services. Core services include substance abuse assessment & referral, crisis intervention, formal and informal counseling, and information & referral services.

Truancy Prevention Initiative (Funded through GOC)
The initiative is a prevention and intervention model of intensive case management designed along with a strategic plan to address the elementary school aged children exhibiting truant pattern behavior.

Kinship Care (Funded through GOC and DSS)
The program address the therapeutic and concrete needs of non parental relative caretakers as they work toward permanency plans for children in their care.

Multi- Systemic Therapy (Funded through GOC and DJS)
The program is an intensive family and community based treatment model that addresses the multiple determinants of serious antisocial behavior in juvenile offenders.

Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Initiative (Funded through GOCCP)
This initiative works to reduce the overrepresentation of minority youth throughout the key decision points in the juvenile justice system. The DMC committee reviews and analyzes juvenile justice data, demographics and statistics, and plans and implements alternatives to detention.

School Based Health Centers (Funded through MSDE)
The program provides comprehensive full day mental health and medical services for students at Oxon Hill, Fairmont Heights, Bladensburg, and Northwestern high schools. Evening services for children ages pre-kindergarten through grade 12 are offered at the Oxon Hill High School Evening Community Pediatric Center.

Family Crisis Center (Funded through Department of Family Services)
The program provides services to women and children who are victims or are at risk of domestic violence through Safe Passage Emergency Shelter, Family Violence Intervention Clinic, and Children & Youth services. Counseling is also provided to perpetrators of domestic violence.

Healthy Families Prince George’s (Funded through MSDE)
The Healthy Families Prince Georges program is a home visiting program that provides support to first time mothers under the ages of 25. Services include prenatal support, intensive home visiting and parenting services.

Pen or Pencil (A federal partnership with the National Alliance of Faith and Justice)
The PEN OR PENCIL initiative is aligned with the Prince George’s County DMC initiative which works to address juvenile delinquency, prevention, and systemic improvement efforts. PEN OR PENCIL is a social action and educational movement designed to influence the lives of youth to decrease academic failure and potential incarceration. “PEN” is short for penitentiary while “PENCIL” refers to education.

Gang Prevention (Funded through GOC)
The program utilizes the Phoenix Gang Prevention and Intervention curriculum which is an evidence based model for students and parents in or school settings. Currently, the curriculum is being implemented in Langley Park McCormick Elementary School, William Wirt and Buck Lodge Middle Schools, and High Point and Northwestern High Schools.

Boys Reading (A partnership with the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System)
The Boys Reading program is designed to encourage boys in elementary school grades 3-5 to read for pleasure. The purpose of the Boys Reading Club is to ensure that boys are exposed to stimulating reading to include learning, adventure, action and fun.