Good Shepherd Services is a youth development, education and family service agency that serves more than 20,000 program participants annually. It aims to provide a range of individual, family and school-based services to prevent youths from becoming disconnected from family, school and society. Good Shepherd Services offers community-based programs focused on problems arisen by poverty, school failure, substance abuse and crime. It provides youths with foster care and residential care services. The agency s domestic violence advocacy and service program offers a hot line, counseling, and safety-planning and advocacy for the survivors of domestic violence, as well as runs a 20-bed shelter. Its transfer high schools provide drop-out youths with a second chance to complete their education. Good Shepherd Services maintains a location in Brooklyn, N.Y.