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5 <br />youth drop-in center which provided counseling, supervised emergency foster homes, peer <br />counseling, and a child assault prevention program and hotline. In the 1970s, 1980s and <br />until the 1990s, it was identified with the Hancock Church and was housed in the church <br />building. (For the period from November 1994 until late 1995, Eliot Community Health <br />Services took over from RePlace and offered drop-in services and peer counseling for <br />youth <br />from a clubhouse in Depot Square. It proved difficult to reconcile the activities of youth at <br />that location with the business interests of merchants based on the Square. The contract <br />reverted to Wayside RePlace). <br /> The present day RePlace, with local headquarters on the second floor at 4 Muzzey <br />Street, retains a tradition carried over from the old RePlace of working to be identified <br />with Lexington, carrying on advocacy for youth and families, and empowering youth as <br />well as being prevention-oriented. It differs from what it was in its earlier decades: it is <br />more bureaucratically organized and professional with a higher level of staff training, <br />documentation of services, and reporting. Since 1996, it has had a solid relationship with its <br />parent agency, the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network, with headquarters <br />located in Framingham, which serves a large, multi-suburban range of communities. <br /> In addition to programs of youth skill building, and efforts at bullying and violence <br />prevention which complement the Domestic Violence Task Force work of the Police <br />Department, and health education, RePlace provides counseling and crisis intervention <br />services for emotionally distressed children and youth. In the fiscal year that ended June <br />30, 2002, the agency provided 459 hours of counseling sessions to 119 Lexington residents <br />and their families on the contract with the town. They also offered group and individual <br />counseling to a few groups of children and middle school youths at Fiske, Harrington, and <br />Clarke schools. Issues addressed in some of these settings included social skills, teasing and <br />bullying, grief and loss, and anger management. The annual operating budget for the year <br />was $108,000, which included $74,087 awarded by the Town of Lexington. This funded the <br /> <br />