Essex County Youth Bureau

7533 Court Street
P.O. Box 217
Elizabethtown, NY 12932
Phone: (518) 873-3630
Fax: 518-873-3633
Website: https://essexcountyny.gov/department-of-social-services/?target=Youth%20Bureau/

The Essex County Youth Bureau is funded by Essex County and the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. These funds are used to support local programs which will help prevent delinquency and foster positive youth development.

Programs and Services Include:

In addition to recreation programs the Youth Bureau also offers the following programs:

Essex County Youth Employment Program
This program is offered in various towns to provide employment, vocational and job skills to area youth.

Arts Trek
This program is sponsored in part by the Ticonderoga Festival Guild, Inc. The program promotes, develops, sustains, delivers, and advances the performing arts in the Ticonderoga area. Since 1983, the Guild has presented programs that fulfill this mission in regards to area youth and children. Youth programs in Essex County are informed and invited to the programs. Bus loads come from Summer Youth Programs. The Arts Trek performance takes place each Wednesday morning, starting in July.

Schroon Summer Enrichment
The Schroon Summer Enrichment Program was developed to help those students with exceptional needs not necessarily met during the regular school year, or identified needs that can be met with continuing instruction.

Lake Placid Youth Center
The Thomas Shipman Sr. Memorial Youth Center is located in the Town of North Elba. The center is open to youth ages 11-18. The center provided planned activities to increase self-esteem as well as cultural, educational, and recreational experiences.

Summer Food Service Program
The Summer Food Service Program was established to ensure that children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session. Free meals are provided to all children at approved sites in areas with significant concentrations of low income children. The Youth Bureau operates two types of sites, open sites and closed enrolled sites in various towns in Essex County. Sites must meet the criteria for closed enrolled or open to qualify.