Building a Brighter Future
What We Do
For over 40 years, Payback, Inc. has helped youth, their families, and the broader community break the cycle of juvenile delinquency by providing support, guidance, and resources that foster lasting positive change.
PayBack works in partnership with Metropolitan St. Louis Area Family Courts to help children, their families, and our community break the cycle of juvenile delinquency. Our goal is to fund and administer restorative justice programs for youth offenders and victims by raising restitution funds, locating job sites, and restoring the youth's sense of self through personal accountability, community service, and job skills.
How it Works
assignment
Youth offenders assigned to a work site or crew
service
Youth offenders credited at minimum wage for community service hours
restitution
Money earned is paid as restitution to their victims
Our Impact
Restoring the health of the community, repairing the harm done, meeting victims’ needs, and emphasizing that the offender can — and must — contribute to those repairs, restores the youth's sense of self through lessons in personal accountability. It restores their sense of pride through work skills, community service and mentoring, it provides nonprofit and public agencies with a resource of volunteer manpower, and it restores the victim’s sense of community and sense of security and control.