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Town of Granby Youth Service Bureau
Proud to serve the youth and families of Granby Connecticut

                                                                                                                          Providing a variety of services:
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Location:
15C North Granby Road
Granby Connecticut 06035

                             (860) 844-5355

Program Evaluation Form
Participated in one of our programs?  Please leave us some feedback so we can continue to offer the best possible programming.
YSB Podcast Series
Click here to listen to the poscasts hosted by the
Farmington Valley PodcastNetwork: 
Podcasts
FALL Programming
​ADDICTION SUPPORT GROUPS:

Monday evenings beginning 10/19:  SMART Recovery Friends and Family support group.  Learn how to love your family member, and the skills to protect your own well being.  Develop the skills to recognize and avoide enablingand increase the chances your loved one will seek treatment.  
7:00 PM onday Evenings
SMART Youth and Teen recovery support group
begins October 13th at 7:00 PM.  For youth and teens with addictive behaviors that are causing them difficulty.  
Evidence based international recovery programs
Cancellations posted on this website

Click the button below for confidential  registration:

SMART Friends and Family
SMART Recovery Teen

Study Skills and Organization Support Group

Open to Middle and High School Ages.  This is a small counseling group, with 1 to 4 students in each section.  The first weeks will focus on identifing individual strengths and weaknesses, articulating the students beliefs about school and school work, and developing a plan to implement new stratigies to better meet the studens personal academic goals.  The first section is being offered Fridays at 6:00 PM beginning 9/11/2020.  Click the link below to registeration information.
Study and Organization Skills Support group
YES: Our Youth Employment Service.  We help connect area youth (with parent permission) to local residents looking for odd job or babysitting help.  Click below for the YES registration form.
Youth Employment Service Registration

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​Are kids really are addicted to their cell phones?  Check out this video that explains some of the unique things that impact this generation of teens and young adults​.
Thie millennial generation and social media addiction


Rolling Registration!
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Teen to Teen Peer Education Program

Interested students from the Middle and High School are invited to join our T2T peer education program.  The premise of a peer educator program is that teens are more likely to listen to peers about issues.  If we educate students about specific topics that are a potential issue for teens, they will have the accurate information to pass on to peers if and when the topic arises organically in a natural setting.  

The YSB T2T program will earn participants community service credit, and will also look pretty good on college applications!  Each peer educator will be expected to attend four of eight training sessions to be held throughout the school year.  A variety of topics will  be covered from the risks associated with under age use of marijuana, to signs of depression, from reducing unwanted teen pregnancies and STD's to issues facing LGBTQIA youth.  Participants and their families will be given a schedule of topics, and are able to pick and choose the topics they are comfortable with learning about.   Parents are always welcome to attend the training's as well.



T2T Education Series Registration

Parenting Workshop
​Parent with less anger, more love!  

Call for information on the next workshop!



  • Free Professional and Confidential Counseling Services
  • Positive Youth Development Programs
  • Parent Education Workshops
  • Prevention Education Programs
  • Juvenile Review Board​
  • Teen Intervene: A brief Intervention with Substance-Abusing Adolescents
  • ​Community Service Opportunities!!​​
  • Summer Programs

Check here for cancellations or closing information:
Closed 11/26 and 11/27
CORVID-19 update:  No Rec Nite 11/19-11/27.  We will resume after Thanksgiving week as long as the schools remain open!


Counseling sessions will continue, using Doxy.me, a HIPAA compliant telemedicine cloud service of at your request, face to face using distancing and masks.  .
Call for more information (860) 844-5355
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The Granby YSB's Prevention  Podcast Series has launched!  ​Click below to look over our current content:  From vapint to adolescent brain development, childhood trauma to parenting in anxious times we are working hard to find ways to keep you informed and ready to parent in todays complicated times!

Prevention Podcasts



MS  Open Rec
Our rec room is open to registered GMMS age students every Thursday evening from 6 to 8 PM  and Friday evening from 7 to 9 PM.  Click below for more information on the activities, rules, and procedures!
 
No Cell Phone Use during Open Rec, phones can be left at home or securely checked while open rec is on. 
Parents must complete a registration form the first evening a student attends, the registration is for the entire 2018-2019 school year.   
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​Click here for general rules and information
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Open Rec Registration Form Here

Brought to Granby by a generous donation from the  Granby Lion's Club:  
Teen Intervene:  
Brief, free screening and intervention for teen substance abuse. Evidence based and effective. Call (860) 844-5355 for more information or to make an appointment.
Check out the link below :


Teen Intervene
More information on Programs and Services






Links to other Town of Granby Departments serving the youth and families of our community:
Senior Services
Recreation
Social Services
Granby Public Schools
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