NCS and its partners provides career-readiness and workforce-development services at re-engagement centers:

• Comprehensive career guidance and counseling
• Career exploration and development
• Job skills training and certification
• Paid job experiences, apprenticeships and internships
• Access to technology and non-traditional careers and programs; and entrepreneurial skills

NCS hosts engagement events featuring career exploration training and job expos to connect youth with potential employers.

In partnership with Fairfax County Public School (FCPS), NCS and partners collaborate to reconnect young adults to FCPS educational pathways that help them reach self-identified goals such as completing a high school diploma, GED, or postsecondary credential or degree.

Young adults are supported in registering for FCPS Adult Community Education (ACE) classes, including ESOL, health and medical careers and apprenticeship/trade industry.

Using a human-centered design and holistic approach, NCS provides wraparound services, including referrals to county programs, and purchasing services and supports to help youth/opportunity youth mitigate numerous barriers such as cost, location, prerequisites, etc.

NCS case management partners with youth/opportunity youth to help them acquire the resources, skills, and sustained behavior changes (or self-regulation) necessary to overcome poverty. Project staff works with youth/opportunity youth to develop an individualized plan to include youth-driven educational and employment goals as well as referrals and connections to available private and public resources to address immediate basic needs and related barriers.

Services and supports include assisting youth in:

• Obtaining certifications
• Purchasing job seeker services (e.g., interview clothing, shoes, uniforms, transportation, ID documents, and driving classes)
• Food
• Healthcare (physical and mental)
• Housing
• Childcare

NCS provides young adults with opportunities to develop and practice their leadership skills and styles. Participants are invited to take part in program design, including data collection, communications and coordination. NCS matches youth with staff who provide training to build their capacity and confidence with decision-making. NCS will also invite youth to serve on councils established at key re-engagement centers.

Youth-led teams and a mentor develop action plans including high-level presentations to county and community leaders on collaborative efforts to implement approved projects and pilot programs. NCS youth civic engagement efforts are informed by two essential dimensions of its upward economic mobility framework: community belonging, and power and autonomy.

Please call center for Re-Engagement Hours

Cathy Hudgins Re-Engagement Center at Reston Community Center

2310 Colts Neck Road, Reston, VA 20191
703-476-4500, TTY 711

Gum Springs Community Center

8100 Fordson Road, Alexandria, VA 22306
703-360-6088, TTY 711

Hybla Valley Community Center

7950 Audubon Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22306
703-324-9270, TTY 711

James Lee Community Center

2855 Annandale Road, Falls Church, Virginia 22042
703-534-3387, TTY 711

Jim Scott Community Center

3001 Vaden Drive, Fairfax VA 22031
703-865-0520, TTY 711

Kingsley Commons

3037B Monticello Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042
703-698-1496, TTY 711

Lorton Community Center

9520 Richmond Highway, Lorton, VA 22079
703-550-7195, TTY 711

The Minnie H. Peyton Community Center at Bailey’s (formerly Bailey’s Community Center)

5920 Summers Lane, Falls Church, VA 22041
703-931-7027, TTY 711

Mott Community Center

12111 Braddock Road, Fairfax, VA 22030
703-278-8605, TTY 711

Reston Teen Center

12196 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, VA 20190
703-326-7040, TTY 711

Sully Community Center

13800 Wall Road, Herndon, VA 20171
703-322-4475, TTY 711

Willston Multicultural Center

6131 Willston Drive, Falls Church, VA 22044
703-536-8943, TTY 711

The Commons Mount Vernon

8333 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, VA 22309
703-704-6234, TTY 711
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