YV Services* is a private nonprofit organization that helps emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families in the Dallas area. Since it began serving the Dallas are in 2000, the organization has helped more than 700 children and families.

Success in Texas
Using intensive in-home counseling services, YV Services counselors help the area’s most vulnerable youth and families in Dallas, Dallas County and Rockwall County. YV Services also offers a transitional living program that helps young people aging out of state custody get a successful start on independent adulthood.

YV Services treats young people in Texas through Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) and our program works. Based on research conducted one year post-discharge**:

• 76% of youth are at home with family or in a home-like setting
• 72% of youth report no trouble with the law
• 83% of youth are in school, have graduated from high school, or are in GED classes

* YV Services is part of Youth Villages, headquartered in Memphis.
** These percentages reflect outcomes recorded through March 2011