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The Clark County Youth Shelter and Family Services is a communitybased youth shelter and family resource. Our Youth Shelter is located in Downtown Jeffersonville Indiana and provides youth in Clark and Floyd County a safe alternative when they have no place else to go and resources for families in need. Youth in Crisis Before our founding in 1986 the unfortunate reality was that local youth that found themselves in abusive homes or suffering from parental neglect or truancy would be locked up in the Clark County Jail. A Vision for a Better Future In 1984 Jim and Barbara Williams along with Edwin and Joan Crooks met with Judge Clementine Barthold of Clark Superior Court 1 to try and come up with an alternative to this problem.