Youth Villages

Programs: Each day in East Tennessee Youth Villages provides services to more than 450 children in many different ways. Counselors assist young people transitioning into adult life and responsibilities and other counselors visit families in their homes to help create safe loving environments where children can thrive. In other blog posts we highlight a family who [...]

Programs: DCS Youth Villages partnership cited in 34 percent reduction since 2000 Tennessee has reduced the number of children in its foster care system by 34 percent since 2000 while providing more effective help to families according to a new study released by Casey Family Programs this week. The study by Casey’s Common Knowledge project was [...]

Programs: The NonProfit Times and Best Companies Group have named Youth Villages as one of the 50 Best Nonprofit Organizations to Work For in the United States. One of the largest providers of services to troubled children and their families in the country Youth Villages was founded in Memphis in 1986. This year 2 300 counselors teachers [...]

Programs: (Memphis Daily News) The Memphis Daily News has a great story about us today as a result of our being named one of the 50 Best Nonprofit Organizations to Work For in the nation by The NonProfit Times and Best Companies Group. For most college graduates a first job is a stepping stone to something [...]

Programs: Another successful year of helping children and families has passed. As we begin 2010 Youth Villages has opportunities to help more children than ever before. With new offices in North Carolina Georgia and New Hampshire and growing services — especially in Mississippi and Tennessee — we have the ability to reach an ever-growing number of [...]

Programs: The 28th annual YV5K was a big success again this year. The April 17th event was held at Ridgeway Center in Memphis Tenn. Almost 1 600 runners ed along with 476 Spirit Runners who gave a donation. The race raised over $76 000 for Youth Villages’ programs serving young people with behavioral and emotional problems and their [...]

Programs: UDPATE – ABC24 Eyewitness News broadcast a story about this issue April 29. Watch the story at myeyewitnessnews.com. Calls for help for children experiencing psychiatric emergencies went up in Tennessee in 2009 and have increased by 20 percent since the economic downturn began in 2007 according to Youth Villages the nonprofit organization that operates the [...]

Programs: Youth Villages hosted an honored guest yesterday as Sonal Shah director of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation visited our operations center in Memphis. Her visit was part of a “Community Solutions Tour” launched in 2009 when President Obama charged the Office of Social Innovation to travel across the country “to [...]

Programs: Everyone has a chance to make the most of their opportunities facing each day with a goal to help others and leave something positive behind. Whether it is grand or a subtle indirect approach a special type of person makes an effort to do it each day. Part of what makes Youth Villages special is [...]

Programs: The way the Bruces speak of Marqavius he was already a member of the family. It just wasn’t official. But on a windy Monday morning in Holly Springs his foster parents Marvin and Linda Bruce adopted Marqavius. The Bruces were reluctant foster parents. They have two birth children. One’s at college and the younger is [...]

Programs: The Nashville Tennesseean recently profiled Donna Goad and Linda Dillard identical twin sisters living in Ashland City Tenn. a town located about 20 miles northwest of Nashville. Their parents began fostering children more than 30 years ago. Both sisters began fostering children after they married and combined the family has cared for more than 700 [...]

Programs: Mississippi Youth Programs Around the Clock is a unique program developed by the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to assist families of troubled children and adolescents by providing community-based alternatives to residential treatment. The MYPAC program was created under a waiver that allows Medicaid to focus on keeping youth with serious emotional disturbances in their home [...]

Programs: Delorse and Sherman Lofton are cut from old cloth. To them family means more than being related. Their living room has many family pictures graduation photos and photos of a lot of happy smiling children. The Loftons have been foster parents going on 30 years and have adopted three children. As of April they were [...]

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Youth Villages is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to helping emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families live successfully. We help more than 18,000 children and families each year from more than 20 states and Washington, D.C. Our Evidentiary Family Restoration™ approach involves intensive work with the child and family, a focus on measuring outcomes, keeping children in the community whenever safely possible, and providing accountability to families and funders. The EFR approach produces lasting success for children with success rates twice that of traditional services at one-third the cost of traditional care.