The main focuses of this agency are to protect vulnerable individuals and promote and maintain self sufficiency.
Division of Youth Services The Division of Youth Services (DYS) service juveniles that have been adjudicated delinquent by the MS Youth Courts. The agency provides counseling, education, rehabilitation, supervised probation and treatment services. The agency has community services programs, Adolescent offender Program, Therapeutic Group Home, and Institutional Programs (Annual Report, www.mdhs.state.ms.us). Over time, there has been a misconception that welfare is only for the poor only. This is false! Welfare is a system that is designed to help the needy, whether they are poor or have fallen on hard times (http://morganwrites.wordpress.com). It is during these times that people need to know that there is assistance out there to help them through their times of needs; and one of these agencies is The Mississippi Department of Human