Bill’s Place

Youth Villages’ Bill’s Place is an expansive and state-of-the-art facility designed to address specifically a gap in services for youth with a greater need of integrated care and the growing community need for intensive treatment options to serve the most at-risk and vulnerable youth.

Bill’s Place will serve both boys and girls from ages 10-17, some who may have a greater need of integrated care and complicating or co-occurring medical and mental health conditions.

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