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Do you share our passion for helping children and families live successfully?
Whether you are a licensed counselor, a recent graduate, a professional with experience working with troubled youth, or you’re a current youth mental health counselor, we’ve got a place for you.
Youth Villages Careers – We Are A Force For Families®
WHO WE ARE
Our approach centers around intensive work with children and families, measuring outcomes, keeping children in the community whenever safely possible and providing accountability to families and funders.
Youth Villages’ commitment to helping troubled children and their families find success spans 30+ years and includes a comprehensive array of programs and services, including:
- In-Home Services
- Treatment Foster Care & Adoption
- YVLifeSet
- Crisis Services
- Residential Treatment and Group Homes
WHY YOUTH VILLAGES?
We’re always looking for people with a strong sense of purpose and drive to make the world a better place for everyone.
- Designated A Great Place to Work®
- Opportunity for career growth
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Partial tuition and licensure reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Focus on wellness and work/life balance
- Annual employee conference
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Still have questions? Check out our Frequently Asked Questions. Here you’ll find answers to our most commonly asked questions.
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Youth Villages offers undergraduate and graduate students in social work, psychology, or related fields an internship experience that is challenging, relevant to your studies and future career – and a lot of fun. Interns work alongside Youth Villages’ professional staff to make a difference in the lives of seriously troubled children. Most interns work on our residential campuses or group homes in Memphis, Nashville or Linden, Tennessee.
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88.5 is LIVE with Youth Villages' Regional Manager of Foster Care and Adoption for TN, La'keisha Gomes, to discuss foster care awareness.
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As the need for foster parents increases in Tennessee, we are always looking for amazing foster parents like Jill and Prentice. Share if you or someone you know would be the perfect foster parent!
www.wate.com/news/local-news/need-for-foster-parents-rises-during-opioid-crisis/2015553408
Need for foster parents rises during opioid crisis
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) - The opioid crisis may be to blame for another growing problem in our area - the need for more foster parents.What does it take to be a foster parent?
No one can tell you better than Wendy Lunsford, Foster Care Trainer at Youth Villages and Donna Neal, Youth Villages Foster mom to 150 foster children!
Take a look: fox17.com/news/local/foster-care-awareness-month-youth-villages-on-why-you-can-be-a-foster-parent
Foster Care Awareness Month: Youth Villages on why you can be a foster parent
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Fox 17 provides local news, weather, sports, traffic and entertainment for Nashville and nearby towns and communities in Middle Tennessee, including Forest Hills, Brentwood, Franklin, Fairview, Dickson, Clarksville, White House, Greenbrier, Springfield, Gallatin, Hartsville, Lebanon, Mt Juliet, Smyr...Do you have the compassion it takes to become a foster parent? If so, come to our Open House! This will give you chance to speak with foster care staff, ask any questions you might have about the process and learn about taking the next steps in a relaxed setting. Come join us TOMORROW (May 28) from 10 a.m. – Noon!
Location: 3310 Perimeter Hill Drive, Nashville TN 37211
“I’m not used to having someone be this concerned about me [or] care about me so much.” Tiney was adopted from foster care as a baby, but after his adoptive mother died, he was back in the system at 15. Fortunately, he found his way to YVLifeSet. Read more about Tiney’s journey and his relationship with his YVLifeSet specialist, Frank Tallent.
Tiney achieves his goals by taking the driver’s seat | Youth Villages Newsroom
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Tiney achieves his goals by taking the driver’s seat Posted by youthvillages | Mar 13, 2018 Tiney’s life has had big ups and downs. He was adopted from foster care as a baby, but after his adoptive mother died, he was back in the system at 15. In just a few weeks, Tiney turns 18 and will age out...