Child and Youth Services
Description
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential social assistance services for children and youth. These establishments provide for the welfare of children in such areas as adoption and foster care, drug prevention, life skills training, and positive social development. Illustrative Examples: Adoption agencies Youth centers (except recreational only) Child guidance organizations Youth self-help organizations Foster care placement services
Hierarchy
| Code | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 62 | Health Care and Social Assistance 2-digit sector | The Sector as a Whole The Health Care and Social Assistance sector comprises establishments providing health care and social assistance for individuals. The sector includes both health care and social assistance because it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the boundaries of these two activities. The industries in this sector are arranged on a continuum starting with establishments providing medical care exclusively, continuing with those providing health care and social assistance, and finally finishing with those providing only social assistance. Establishments in this sector deliver services by trained professionals. All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. Many of the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational degree held by the practitioners included in the industry. Excluded from this sector are yoga and aerobics instruction in Subsector 611, Educational Services, physical fitness facilities in Subsector 713, Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries, and personal fitness training services and non-medical diet and weight reducing centers in Subsector 812, Personal and Laundry Services. Although these can be viewed as health services, these services are not typically delivered by health practitioners. |
| 624 | Social Assistance 3-digit subsector | Industries in the Social Assistance subsector provide a wide variety of social assistance services directly to their clients. These services do not include residential or accommodation services, except on a short-stay basis. |
| 6241 | Individual and Family Services 4-digit industry group | This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential social assistance to children and youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and all other individuals and families. |
| 62411 | Child and Youth Services 5-digit NAICS industry | See industry description for 624110. |
| 624110 | Child and Youth Services 6-digit U.S. detail | This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nonresidential social assistance services for children and youth. These establishments provide for the welfare of children in such areas as adoption and foster care, drug prevention, life skills training, and positive social development. Illustrative Examples: Adoption agencies Youth centers (except recreational only) Child guidance organizations Youth self-help organizations Foster care placement services |
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Classification References
- 01Youth recreational centers are classified in Industry 713940, Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers;
- 02Youth recreational sports teams and leagues are classified in Industry 713990, All Other Amusement and Recreation Industries;
- 03Scouting organizations are classified in Industry 813410, Civic and Social Organizations;
- 04Establishments primarily engaged in providing child care services are classified in Industry 624410, Child Care Services; and
- 05Child group foster homes and juvenile halfway group homes are classified in Industry 623990, Other Residential Care Facilities.
Index Items
Adoption agencies
Adoption services, child
Aid to families with dependent children (AFDC)
Child guidance agencies
Child welfare services
Community centers (except recreational only), youth
Foster care placement agencies
Foster home placement services
Self-help organizations, youth
Teen outreach services
Youth centers (except recreational only)
Youth guidance organizations
Youth self-help organizations
How Item Can Help
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External Resources
Census.gov NAICS Detail
Official US Census Bureau definition and scope for NAICS 624110.
National Child Care Association
A leading industry association representing child care providers and advocates.
U.S. Department of Education, Head Start
The official federal program for early childhood education and care services.
American Professional Agency Search and Staffing for Schools (APPASSS)
A directory connecting schools with staffing agencies and providers for child and youth services.
