What career would enable me to counsel teenagers and have an impact on their lives?

I want to give back to the youth who have had a rough life almost like a summer camp counselor only full time. I love making an impact on teens and i want it to be my career. What category of careers does this description fall under?What career would enable me to counsel teenagers and have an impact on their lives?
Counselor! You have it in your answer. Perhaps you should be a child psychologist, especially if you are wanting to impact a child's (teen's) life. Maybe a psychiatrist? Did you want to be able to prescribe drugs? I think maybe you should think specifically on what you'd like to do and how you'd best help, such as talking to them, or caring for them as a nurse, or even taking them in to live with you and being a foster parent. I don't know where you live, but where I'm at now there's a bunch of places where kids go for a variety of reasons, such as drugs, promiscuity, truancy, or just for a respite. These places hire people to facilitate their return home, such as:





Houseparents: overseeing some kids in a household setting on an extended, live in basis


Care Worker (or something similar): overseeing them in various settings, not live in


Case Worker: being the liaison between the child and basically the outside world


Psychiatrist/psychologist: monitor the mental health of the kids





There are lots more and the best way to find out where you could get started may be at your local YMCA, where they should have a list of safe places for kids to play, be sheltered, or get help. Then you could maybe volunteer/apply for a position at one of these places.





However you do it, I commend you for wanting to do such a selfless thing. Please write and update once you've started working with kids and tell us how it's going.