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History

Durham Achieving Results for Youth & Children (formerly known as the Durham At Risk Youth Collaborative) origins stem as a result of a need to have a systematic approach to provide alternative educational services to youth truant and/or at risk of dropping out of school. The call for a seamless continuum of services that target this population was currently not available in Durham County. Despite frameworks such as Systems of Care (SOC), Results Based Accountability (RBA) and the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC) youth were continually falling through the cracks of the splintered systems.

In March 2007, three non-profit agencies, (Restoration Institute for Leaders (RIL), African-American Male Leadership Academy (AAMLA), and Year of Opportunities for Durham Youth (YO: Durham)), began meeting to discuss how they could work together to begin creating wrap-around services. In September 2007, two more non-profit agencies, the Durham PROUD Program and the Truancy Triage Center (TTC), joined the discussions and together formed the Durham At Risk Youth Collaborative.

Since its inception the Collaborative has received state grants from NC Department of Public Instruction, two NC Governor's Crime Commission grants, private, local and foundation funds to create an infrastructure to oversee the operation of the projects, collaborative efforts and to build capacity among the agencies within the organization.

In March of 2009, DARYC received its official tax exempt non-profit status from both the federal and state.

In July 2009, DARYC was charged by the Gang Reduction Strategic Committee to convene and facilitate a Prevention Team to address the gang prevention and early intervention efforts in Durham. Our Prevention Team has over 50 community stakeholders at the table.

In December 2009 the Board of Directors reviewed our mission, vision and various activities realizing our work expanded out of the realm of at risk youth.

Therefore a name change was made to reflect the comprehensiveness of our work.

Members

• Community-based initiative with Community-based oversight
• Local partnership and local leadership
• Local partners provide participation of high level staff (Program Directors/Executive Directors)
• Local partners are experienced in working with Juvenile Court System, Durham System of Care, Safe and Drug Free Schools, United Way
• DARYC staff are experienced and knowledgeable in the needs of Durham youth

Project partners

• Durham Truancy Project
• Triumph, LLC
• PROUD
• Sales & Service Training Center
• Restoration Institute for Leaders
• Partners for Youth
• African-American Male Leadership Academy
• YO: Durham
• Gang Prevention Initiative
• Durham TRY
• Durham Literacy Center
• Measurement Inc.