Orange Youth & Prevention Programs

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Congratulations to the 2024 Orange Youth Services Scholarship recipients: Lydia Bissenden, Camryn Flaherty, & Amia Miller (Caroline Tirollo not pictured.)

Orange Youth Services (OYS) provides $1,000 awards to three graduating Orange seniors who demonstrate outstanding character, community service and leadership potential. Interested seniors apply through an application and recipients are selected by the Youth Services Scholarship Committee. Click the button below for the 2025 application information and form.

Free 30-minute, community-wide, and in-person Naloxone training. In this 30-minute training, you will learn to: recognize the signs of an opioid overdose, how to administer naloxone, rapidly reverse opioid overdose, and better understand the opioid crisis nationally and in CT. 

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 Are you an Orange resident in grade 7 thru 12 and want to work to encourage positive youth development, promote prevention, engage in community service, and help plan events in town? If yes, then Orange Youth Services is looking for you! Orange Youth Services Teen Representatives (OYSTR) is led by Orange Youth Services Coordinator Chantelle Bunnell and our two School Resource Officers (SRO’s). Does it sound like a good fit? Join us!

In conjunction with the Orange Fire Department and the Orange Student Resource Officers, we provide classes that cover fire and personal safety, visitors, responsibilities, and "do's and don'ts" when home alone. We have three sessions scheduled in May.

Orange Youth Services is tackling the critical issue of digital media's impact on children with a special screening of the documentary "Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age" (Elementary School Age Edition). The event is designed to equip families with the tools and knowledge to navigate the digital world. Click here to view the film through

April 2, 2025

The Orange Youth Committee creates cards to be given out to Veterans in our community. Contact us to learn more about this wonderful program.

For more information about our volunteer program, click the button below. The volunteer application form is available here. 

Information coming soon.

Orange Community Women sponsor backpacks for youth in Orange for the beginning of each school year. These backpacks are filled with all sorts of supplies. If you'd like to help us, or if you'd like to donate items or help sponsor, drop us a line.