Youth & Family Services - Green Chimneys

Farm Program Grows in the Forest at Clearpool

May 7, 2021

Community-Based Services for Positive Youth Development

Green Chimneys provides comprehensive community-based services for at-risk, runaway, homeless, street and foster care youth, as well as seriously emotionally disturbed, behaviorally disordered, and typically developing youth and their families across Putnam County and surrounding areas.

From fun and constructive activity programs at the Community Outreach Center to Arbor House youth shelter to connecting families with necessary resources for their children, Green Chimneys offers a wide range of support services for all ages up 21 years old. The goal of Green Chimneys’ community-based programs is to reunite families, encourage conflict resolution and help strengthen family communication and optimal functioning through comprehensive prevention and intervention services.

Services are available throughout the year with special programming offered during summer months and school vacations.

All services are free and confidential. Bilingual staff available.

Cow

Blossom is a 1-year-old Holstein cow, and she was born a freemartin. A freemartin calf is a common result of twin calves; the female twin absorbs genetic material from a male twin in utero, and after birth develops male traits and subsequently becomes sterile. Since Blossom can’t produce milk, the dairy farm where she was born asked Green Chimneys if we’d like to have her, and of course, we agreed! Blossom came to us around the same time as another calf named Alfie, and the two have grown up together while being cared for by staff and students alike.

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Farm Program Grows in the Forest at Clearpool

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