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Blog: Bartlett kids take flight to North Pole posted with vodpod Boys from the Bartlett Campus recently hopped a Delta flight to the North Pole for a visit with Santa Claus! Each year Delta Airlines invites children from local nonprofit organizations to enjoy a “flight” to the North Pole. This year kids from Youth Villages St. [...]

This year is quite a milestone for Youth Villages – our 25th year of helping children and families live successfully.

Blog: Youth Villages a national leader in children’s mental and behavioral health services has begun helping children and families in Indiana opening its first office in Madison on Dec. 16. The private nonprofit organization is partnering with the Indiana Department of Child Services to provide intensive help to troubled children and their families in their own [...]

Blog: Sierra Kehoe with Youth Villages stopped by the WFMY Good Morning Show (Greensboro NC) to talk about the signs of depression. Youth/Teen Depression During The Holidays posted with vodpod Filed under: IN THE NEWS Intensive In-home North Carolina YOUTH VILLAGES

Blog: More than 150 guests showed their support for Youth Villages at our Dec. 5 Holiday Heroes Gift Drive at The Vault in Boston. The event generated more than $2 800 and 100 in-kind gifts to help us fulfill the holiday wishes of more than 260 children and families in our programs! Boston Holiday Heroes Gift Drive [...]

Blog: Kaitlin Kennedy a teacher counselor at Youth Villages’ Bartlett Campus introduced recycling to Cottage 1 as a way to teach a life skill. But the youth owned it after that first trip to the Bartlett Recycling Center. The group now visits the center twice a month and has expanded what they do to the Bartlett [...]

Blog: Some of them are easy. Maybe a simple online search or connecting through Facebook brings out family members of a child who has been in state custody for some time. But many of them aren’t easy and involve exhaustive investigation countless phone calls and interviews with family acquaintances. Andrea Davis makes calls and investigates – [...]

Blog: Jordan happily left Youth Villages’ Dogwood Campus last spring after spending nine months there. He misses the counselors and staff there and reels off their names in quick succession each followed with a superlative. Megan Buffum awesome; Anna Tukivakala awesome he said. He mentioned many more highlighting the fun he had playing basketball and participating [...]

Blog: I will never forget Dec. 3 2003. It was the day my life changed completely. I was 13 and I clearly remember how two of my siblings and I came home from a walk to McDonald’s. There was a car we had never seen parked in front of our house. Inside there was a woman [...]

Blog: Monica Richardson recently was nominated for a Mary Catherine Strobel Volunteer Award hosted by HandsOn Nashville. Mary Catherine Strobel was a community volunteer who led charitable efforts to serve others who were less fortunate. The awards were created in honor of Strobel. There were so many amazing people there with amazing stories Monica said. I [...]

Blog: Earlier this year Bridgestone Americas Inc. hosted an open-house and career coaching lunch-and-learn for more than 50 Middle Tennessee young adults in Youth Villages’ transitional living program. In addition to a tour of the corporate office and learning about Bridgestone’s history the youth also heard inspirational stories from some of the Bridgestone staff where they [...]

Blog: Lateria spent five years or exactly 70 months in state custody before finding a forever home with her aunt. Lateria lived in foster care the Wallace Group Home and the Girls Center on Youth Villages’ Bartlett Campus. When I first met Lateria she was pretty lost. She had no anger management skills and had aggression [...]

Blog: Middle Tennessee youth in the transitional living program visited Middle Tennessee State University earlier this year for a campus tour and to learn more about the university’s Next Step program. Attending college is a life-changing event and Next Step eases the transition from foster care to more independent college life. MTSU in conjunction with the [...]

Blog: Last month when The Biggest Loser’s Jillian Michaels announced that she’s considering adopting a child from foster care the fitness entrepreneur joined a growing number of Americans who are re-thinking domestic adoption and want to know more about adopting a child from the foster care system. This month is National Adoption Month and no matter [...]

Blog: Youth Villages Chief Executive Officer Patrick W. Lawler joined other child advocates for a roundtable discussion with President Obama’s Domestic Policy Council staff Nov. 14 at the White House. The meeting with Melody Barnes director of Pres. Obama’s Domestic Policy Council focused on the recently passed Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act. Other [...]

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Youth Villages is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families live successfully. Founded in 1986, Youth Villages helps more than 18,500 children and families every year from more than 20 states and Washington, D.C., through a wide array of programs, including intensive in-home services, residential treatment, foster care and adoption, transitional living services, mentoring and crisis services. Youth Villages’ focus on strengthening families consistently produces an 80 percent success rate of children living successfully at home even two years after completing a Youth Villages program.

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