Bill’s Place®
Bill’s Place®
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Intensive Treatment
Bill’s Place provides a closely supervised environment for the treatment of the most serious emotional and behavioral problems, such as suicidal or self-harming conditions, psychotic symptoms, sexual behavior problems and behavioral issues complicated by medical problems.
Our services include:
- Comprehensive child and family evaluation
- Group, individual and family therapy
- Master-level counselors
- Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy
- Crisis Prevention Institute Nonviolent Crisis Intervention®
- Collaborative Problem Solving approach
- 3:1 staff ratio
- Speech, language and recreational therapies
- Physical and occupational therapy rooms
- Sensory therapy rooms containing leading-edge tactile equipment
- Neurofeedback therapy program
A Focus on Education
While they don’t leave the facility, our youth do experience the routine and discipline of going to school. This ensures they stay on track, earn a degree or can return to a traditional school after leaving.
- Special, individualized curricula
- Traditional classrooms
- Accredited to offer diplomas
- Modern computer lab
- Individual focus on returning to grade-level skill
Therapeutic Recreation
Certified recreational therapists regularly engage the youth in therapeutic activities in order to teach teamwork, encourage sportsmanship, strengthen trust, improve communication and allow children to expend “stored-up” energy.
Activities include:
- Art center
- Library
- Computer lab
- Exercise room
- Swimming pool
- Gymnasium
- Outside playground
- Theater and musical performance room
- West African-style therapeutic drumming
- Neurofeedback therapy program
Safe and Secure
While Bill’s Place is a fully monitored, hardware-secured residential environment where safety is a top priority, large and open spaces filled with natural light help alleviate the institutional quality often associated with programs featuring this level of intensity and security.
Our facility includes:
- Close supervision by a child-and-adolescent psychiatrist
- 24-hour nursing care
- An enhanced health clinic with nursing and psychiatric staff, pediatricians, dentists and optometrists
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7426 Memphis Arlington Road
Memphis, TN 38135 | Phone: 901-252-7980 | Fax: 901-252-7990To inquire about referring a child to a Youth Villages residential treatment center that meets his or her treatment needs, please complete our referral form.
Social News
We strongly believe that, if possible, a child is best raised with their parents. Our Intercept program helps parents like Rudolfo Duenes have the skills and preparedness to raise their children successfully.
After the tragic death of his ex-wife, Rudolfo fought to gain custody of his children. He began meeting with his Intercept Specialist regularly. Rudolfo now has full custody of his children where they are happy and proud to be with dad. Read Rudolfo's full story:
Alabama Dad goes the distance to reunite his family | Youth Villages
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Alabama Dad goes the distance to reunite his familyJun 17, 2017 Rudolfo Duenes was in Atlanta when he got the phone call that changed his family’s life. His ex-wife, living in Birmingham, Alabama, had been found unconscious in her home. Drugs were involved. Their children, Gavin, 3, and McKenzie, ...Major thanks to Theresa Vargas and Washington Post for shedding light on the need for #Covid19 relief for youth aging out of our foster care system. Special thanks to @FosterClub and @DCCFSA too! #UpChafee #fostersafety
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Deshala Royster was 16 when she ended up in D.C.’s foster care system.Young people who turn 18 in foster care are resilient and want to become successful adults. Zoe has had many hardships, but when faced with leaving the foster care system without a plan for the future or solid support, he knew he needed help.
“LifeSet has allowed me to network and make connections with other youth, similar to me and from completely different walks of life,” Zoe said. “The program has given me tremendous support and guidance and has kept me motivated to reaching my goals.” Read Zoe's Story:
www.youthvillages.org/through-lifeset-and-yvscholars-zoe-builds-his-future/
Through LifeSet and YVScholars, Zoe builds his future | Youth Villages
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Young people who turn 18 in foster care are resilient and want to become successful adults. Zoe, entered state custody at 14 years old and moved around a lot before “aging out.” “I never really unpacked my clothing because I moved so much. I kept it in whatever bag I could find,” he says.“I'm really just trying to take everything that I’ve been through to make a difference in other people’s lives and make it mean something.”
Reagan is an amazing young person who is using her journey of entering and aging out of foster care to give light and hope to youth in her foster care support group. Learn more about Reagan's story:
www.youthvillages.org/you-are-not-alone-foster-care/
You Are Not Alone: Foster care | Youth Villages
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Reagan tells WBIR News in Knoxville, TN about her journey entering and aging out of foster care. She’s now 19, co-president of a foster care support group, and on her way to study social work at the University of Tennessee.How inspiring! Thank you Reagan!
We love to encourage our youth to express themselves in therapeutic ways like singing! The Wallace girls group home in Nashville was selected by the Nashville Film Festival again this year to partner for the Livin’ Reel project which connects local artists with at-risk youth to create an original piece of art. This year, the Wallace girls and local artists created an original song called “You’re Not Alone” and the song was premiered at the Nashville Film Festival’s virtual event this week.
Teens in Nashville group home write song about their experience
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A group of teen-aged girls in foster care wrote a song in helps of changing their lives.Beautiful song ladies. You all sounded amazing
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