Youth Villages’ residential treatment programs serve boys and girls with serious to severe emotional and behavioral problems combined with other needs. Although placement criteria vary for each campus, the programs accept adolescents and teens with IQ scores of 45 or above. Almost 95% of those admitted have multiple presenting issues.

Our goal is to return children to a less restrictive environment to continue their progress through intensive in-home services, with their family when possible, or therapeutic foster care when it is not. Based on outcomes from July 2002 to March 2010, 79% of youth exited residential treatment successfully either through step-down to foster care or in-home services or through discharge with family.

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	Bartlett Campus Located just outside Memphis, the Bartlett Campus provides residential mental health treatment for boys ages 8-17 and girls 11-17 who have serious emotional and behavioral problems.
	Christie Campus Located next to Marylhurst University in Lake Oswego, Ore., the Christie Campus features two cottages for intensive residential treatment in a secure environment as well as enhanced psychiatric residential treatment with extra staff and psychiatric support for higher acuity youth. The beautifully landscaped setting that is often a backdrop for wildlife offers boys and girls a peaceful therapeutic environment. A third cottage houses the Cedar Bough Native American Program, which offers help for Native American youth and others who can benefit from a strong cultural and spiritual life program.
	Clackamas River Campus Situated on 35 acres of pristine evergreens along the Clackamas River in Oregon City, Ore., the Clackamas River Campus regularly hosts youth receiving help in the Cedar Bough Native American Program featuring culturally responsive residential treatment for Native American youth as well as youth who can benefit from a strong cultural and spiritual life program. The campus also is home to the staff of Youth Villages’ Intercept intensive in-home services program.
	Dogwood Campus Also located just outside Memphis, Youth Villages’ Dogwood Campus provides residential mental health treatment for boys ages 8-17 and girls ages 11-17 who have serious emotional and behavioral problems.
	Deer Valley Campus The Deer Valley Campus provides psychiatric residential treatment for boys ages 11-17 who have serious emotional and behavioral problems in a natural setting amid more than 1,000 acres of wooded land and rolling hills near Linden, Tenn.
	Germaine Lawrence Campus Germaine Lawrence Campus is located in the Boston, Mass., area and provides services for adolescent girls with complex behavioral, psychological and learning challenges.
	Inner Harbour Campus The woodland setting of the Inner Harbour Campus offers an experiential therapeutic environment for seriously troubled children on 1,200 acres in Douglasville, Ga., just outside Atlanta.
	Group Homes Youth Villages operates group homes in the Memphis and Nashville areas to allow young people to receive mental health support while they learn to live successfully in the community.

More intensive treatment is available at the separate Centers for Intensive Treatment for boys and girls, each located on the Bartlett Campus.

	Boys Center for Intensive Residential Treatment The Youth Villages Intensive Residential Treatment Center provides a safe environment on the Bartlett Campus to help boys ages nine to 17 with serious emotional and behavioral problems.
	Girls Center for Intensive Residential Treatment Youth villages offers intensive, individualized treatment for girls ages nine to 17 at our Girls Center for Intensive Residential Treatment located on the Bartlett Campus.

Campus Life
Children live in cottages with eight to 12 children of similar ages and with similar problems. A professional staff manages each cottage – a master's-level counselor, teacher-counselors and night monitors – with access to a psychiatrist, nurses and other specialized staff.

Group and individual therapy is conducted within the cottages. Administration buildings host family visits and provide additional therapy rooms.

Each residential campus features accredited schools, 24-hour nursing care and both indoor and outdoor recreational facilities with extensive health and wellness programs.

Treatment
Youth Villages’ programs are accredited by the Joint Commission (JCAHO), and our open campuses located in natural settings combine a unique balance of structure and freedom. This balance enables children and their families to identify, understand and cope with their individual needs and develop the skills necessary to succeed in a stable, supportive home and family when the residential phase of their treatment is complete. Learn more about Evidentiary Family Restoration® and the evidence-based practices Youth Villages uses in treatment.

Education
Children receive academic instruction in a therapeutic environment at each on-site campus school. A low student:teacher-counselor ratio allows our staff to fully focus on each child's individual needs to help propel that child toward academic success. Our schools look like regular schools with regular classrooms, gyms, cafeterias and administrative offices. Our ultimate goal is to help each child return to the community and to public school as soon as possible. Our campus schools prepare students for the transition back to the community.   

Recreation
Joy plays an important role in treatment at Youth Villages. We believe that in growing up, each child should experience some joy in each day. Recreational activities, therefore, take on a crucial part in daily therapy.

Recreational therapists guide these activities, engaging children in games to help build specific skills - problem solving, working in teams, enhancing trust - as well as allow children to just have fun and release their energy.

Teacher-counselors also regularly plan outings with their classes. Outings may take them to the zoo, a park, bowling or to restaurants.