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Camp POSTCARD (Peace Officers Striving to Create and Reinforce Dreams) is a Volunteers of America Northern Rockies camp for 5th and 6th grade students to help them develop leadership and teamwork skills. It also aims to build positive relationships between youth and law enforcement and criminal justice professionals in the hope of reducing their risk of committing crimes and using tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.Hosted at the Allen H. Stewart Lions Camp on Casper Mountain, it marks its 20th anniversary in 2023.
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The facilities will allow Volunteers of American to provide additional services and enhance their existing ones as the demand for them has risen. These include mental and behavioral health treatment, housing assistance for low-income and the homeless, addiction treatment, and transitional veterans housing, among other human services. The facilities are set to be completed in 2024. VOA also serves residents in all 23 Wyoming counties.
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Stepping Stones has eight beds for youth in crisis and is operated by the Volunteers of America Northern Rockies.
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Wyoming has one of the highest juvenile incarceration rates in the nation, and state budget cuts are likely to make that problem worse, according to…