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States: May is Foster Care Awareness Month. Every year about 500 000 children enter foster care in the United States due to abuse neglect or abandonment or because their families can no longer care for them. For organizations like ours who work in partnership with state governments to find loving foster homes for children people like Ervin [...]

States: Youth Villages’ mission is to help children and families live successfully. Spend a day with family counselor Alicia Cobb as she works with her team to help make a difference in one family. Subscribe to this blog. Filed under: Alabama Arkansas Careers Florida Georgia Intensive In-home Internships Massachusetts Mississippi New Hampshire North Carolina Tennessee (East) [...]

Programs: We are so grateful for the partnerships we have forged with the Department of Children and Families the Department of Mental Health the Family Networks staff with whom we work closely and the many other amazing human service organizations we’ve come to know through our participation in the Children’s League of Massachusetts Citizens for Juvenile [...]

Programs: Transitional Living helps teens aging out of foster care defy the odds Stability was a foreign concept to Antoine who was adopted at 3 months old then pulled out of his adoptive home and put into foster care. I wasn’t into the foster kid thing Antoine says. I got into a little bit of trouble [...]

Programs: Youth Villages Massachusetts’ first annual Holiday Heroes gift drive was Dec. 1 at The 21st Amendment in downtown Boston. The event attracted more than 50 young professionals who helped raise $1 000 and provided many gifts for the children and families Youth Villages served this holiday season. Filed under: Events Intensive In-home Massachusetts Transitional Living Volunteer

Programs: This year has been one long learning experience for Brandon. It began in a Memphis jail cell. As it ended he received a hug from White House Director of Social Innovation Sonal Shah. White House director visits Youth Villages Learn more about Sonal Shah’s stop at Youth Villages as part of the White House’s Community [...]

Programs: Youth Villages’ transitional living program is part of a national clinical trial to measure its effectiveness. Conducted by MDRC through grants from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation the study will evaluate the difference between the TL program and usual services available in the community. Participants will be interviewed [...]

Programs: Middle Tennessee organizations stepped up to help Youth Villages during the holidays by helping to ensure more than 650 children receiving help through Youth Villages’ foster care and residential programs along with families helped through intensive in-home services and young adults participating in the Transitional Living program received Christmas gifts. Holiday Heroes in Middle Tennessee [...]

Programs: Youth Villages is grateful for the work that Dance Avenue the outreach and education arm of Ballet Memphis is doing at the Girls Center for Intensive Residential Treatment at the Bartlett campus of Youth Villages. During a 10-week program that began in June the girls are learning some ballet African dances modern step and hip-hop [...]

Programs: Several local basketball legends will compete in the Youth Villages Classics basketball tournament Friday and on the weekend to help raise funds for Youth Villages. Youth Villages children basketball fans and players are invited to watch the games. Admission is free. Among the players are University of Memphis legend Penny Hardaway’s TAD All Stars which [...]

Programs: Davina Bolinger has taken a special interest in what Sara does. In a few short months it has made an enormous difference. Last summer Bolinger a clinical supervisor at Youth Villages’ Morristown Tenn. office was told about a child who was a perfect match for her to mentor. Become a MentorIf you can commit at [...]

Programs: Michael Baisden an author motivational speaker and host of the nationally syndicated talk show The Michael Baisden Show recently toured Tennessee during his national One Million Mentors Campaign. Baisden stopped in several Tennessee cities including Chattanooga Nashville and Memphis to raise awareness of the need for mentors and to motivate adults to mentor children. Youth [...]

Programs: Developing new interests. Teaching each other. Seeing the world through a teenager’s eyes. Achieving an understanding. Those are only a few things a mentor and mentee may learn. Ann and Tory meet regularly for lunch and trips to the library. Ann Tory’s mentor shows her new things to expand her interests. Become a MentorIf you [...]

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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.

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