Choice

The Choice Program provides sexual abuse counseling for child victims, their families and the offenders. Counselors are specially trained to work with the needs and issues of child sexual abuse. Individual, family and group counseling are offered.
Counseling is designed to:

Help children recover from the effects of abuse

Help family members provide emotional support to the victim throughout the healing process

Help sexual offenders to be accountable for the abusive behavior, to take responsibility for the disruption to the victim and family and to learn ways to prevent future abuse.

The Choice Program serves:

Children and teens, up to age 17, who are victims of child sexual abuse
non-offending parents/caregivers
adolescent sexual offenders, ages 13-17
adult sexual offenders

The Choice Program is primarily funded by the Steuben County Dept. of Social Services and the United Way

Family Service Society, Inc.