Regardless of the nature or level of the crisis in their lives, YESS is focused on serving any and all children in need of its services. Young children, birth through age eight may reside at the Blumenthal Crisis Nursery during times of emergency and crisis. Pre-adolescent kids and teenagers may stay in YESS’ emergency shelter. While at YESS, the children are provided a safe, structured, and supervised environment, a warm place to sleep, food, access to medical care through an on-site clinic, access to education (community based school or on-site Area Education Agency programming), and referrals to other community services as needed. Kids and their families are also connected with counseling services during their stay to help work through their problems – keeping the family intact whenever possible and appropriate.