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16 The present day RePlace, with local headquarters on the second floor at 4 Muzzey Street, retains a tradition carried over from the old RePlace of working to be identified with Lexington, carrying on advocacy for youth and families, and empowering youth as well as being prevention- oriented. It differs from what it was in its earlier decades: it is more bureaucratically organized and professional with a higher level of staff training, documentation of services, and reporting. Since 1996, it has had a solid relationship with its parent agency,the Wayside Youth and Family Support Network,with headquarters located in Framingham, which serves a large, multi- suburban range of communities. In addition to programs of youth skill building, and efforts at bullying and violence prevention which complement the Domestic Violence Task Force work of the Police Department, and health education, RePlace provides counseling and crisis intervention services for emotionally distressed children and youth. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2002,the agency provided 459 hours of counseling sessions to 119 Lexington residents and their families on the contract with the town. They also offered group and individual counseling to a few groups of children and middle school youths at Fiske, Harrington, and Clarke schools. Issues addressed in some of these settings included social skills,teasing and bullying, grief and loss, and anger management. The annual operating budget for the year was $108,000,which included $74,087 awarded by the Town of Lexington. This funded the work of five part-time and fee for service staff workers with 1.5 full time equivalents. RePlace generally sees higher functioning youths. It does not treat those with psychotic or mood disorders or psychoneuroses. Some individual youths have been referred to RePlace staff by the guidance counselor at Clarke. The high school staff could use RePlace as a referral resource but does so very rarely. In the judgement of two senior administrators at Wayside Replace, Lexington youth should be involved more in community governance. Adults should reach out to them for their views and recommendations. This was attempted at a youth"summit"meeting in March, 2002,with some success, according to both adult and youth participants. The youth at the summit recommended that efforts should be made to make shops and restaurants youth-oriented, and there should be a mobile youth center. Events should be held in different places and oriented