Youth Villages helps more than 11,000 emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families each year in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
- More than 90 percent of the children in our care come from families who have income low enough to qualify them for state aid.
- While we help children from birth to age 22, the majority of the children who receive services from Youth Villages are between 12 and 17.
- Slightly more of our children are male than female.
- Sixty percent are Caucasian; 35 percent African American.
- Children come to us because of emotional and behavioral disorders, physical or sexual abuse, substance abuse or suicidial ideation or attempt.
- Seventy-five percent of Youth Villages children have multiple problems, which may include developmental or learning disabilities.