Who We Are
“The most important part of IYS is being able to take youth one step further than they were when they walked through the door.”
Making sure our youth have a better future
Integral Youth Services started with a group of social workers who wanted to make a difference in the Klamath Falls Community. What started with a simple card table on the side of the road, signing up youth for services in the late 80's, and has progressed into what IYS is today.
Since the beginning, we strive to be a facilitating partner to develop strong programs which help not only engage our community in a healthy atmosphere, but encourage a positive support system for local youth. Our programs provide services to various age ranges anywhere from 1-26 across our eight programs.
Over 55,000 youth have received services from IYS from Klamath and Lake County communities since 1988. Current program focus areas include Nutrition, Life Skills training, Education, Workforce Development, Shelter, Rural Outreach, and Transitional Living.
Our Core Values
Our Mission – At Integral Youth Services, our mission is to Honor God in Offering Hope to Youth, Providing For Their Needs and Mentoring Toward Positive Choices and Healthy Relationships.
Our Vision – Integral Youth Services is a Faith-Based organization providing intervention services and lifestyle alternatives to at-risk youth and their families; with a mandate to be a cooperative and facilitating community player with other organizations with similar goals.
Our Values – We are accountable to all whom we interact with. As such, we are committed to modeling our values every day; to each other, to our youth and families, to our Partners and the community at-large. Through prayerful consideration and considerable deliberation, our Staff, Leadership Team and Board of Directors have adopted the following…
- Honor Christ
- Family
- Mentoring
- Accountability
- Ministry
- Grace
- Trust
- Respect
- Integrity
- Financial Responsibility
- Professionalism
- Teamwork
Our DEI Statement:
Integral Youth Services views diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as the pathway to achieving inclusive success for our families and youth while fostering a positive culture where everyone can thrive. Our community is made of clients, staff, and partnering agencies who draw from a dynamic range of backgrounds to contribute to the pursuit of our common goals. We believe diversity benefits and enriches the development for our youth in services.
Filling the Gaps
At Integral Youth Services, our programs are created to fill the gaps and meet the needs of the community. Because of our long standing relationship within the community and the youth, when we see data arise, we see the need, and we implement programs to remove barriers.
We acknowledge the war on poverty is an ongoing battle that impacts the majority of our community and strive to increase accessibility and making connections to local resources for youth and their families.