Company Profile
Youth Villages
Company Overview
Youth Villages has been a national leader in the adoption and implementation of research-based treatment philosophies in the field of children's mental and behavioral health. Soon after the organization was founded in 1986, Youth Villages adopted the Re-ED (Re-Education of Emotionally Disturbed Children) treatment philosophy. In 1994, with the development of the Youth Villages Intensive In-Home Services Program, the organization became one of the first in the United States to use Multisystemic Therapy (MST) outisde of small clinical trials.
Our approach has been very successful. Today our counselors, teachers and skilled support staff provide Youth Villages' services from office locations across the United States.
Youth Villages is a member of the Child Welfare League, the Alliance for Children and Families, and its programs are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Council on Accreditation. We are a member agency of the United Way of the Mid-South.
Company History
Our History
Founded in the merger of two residential treatment campuses in 1986, Youth Villages has grown to offer a complete continuum of programs and services and to become a nationally recognized leader in the field of children's mental health. Today our counselors, teachers and staff provide services from office locations across the United States.
1986
•Youth Villages is formed in Memphis, Tenn., when Dogwood Village merges with another youth residential center, Memphis Boys Town, creating a new nonprofit organization that helps approximately 80 children.
•Youth Villages achieves accreditation from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
1987
•$1.6 million capital campaign results in the following construction at the Dogwood Village campus: 14,500-square-foot Morris-Wilson Campus School and Activities Center, the Judge Kenneth A. Turner Administration Building and two additional children's cottages.
1991
•Youth Villages expands to Middle Tennessee with the addition of Deer Valley, a residential campus located on more than 1,000 beautiful wooded acres near the Tennessee River in Linden.
1992
•Treatment Foster Care Program is initiated. Offices are added in Nashville, Cookeville and Jackson, Tenn.
1993
•Youth Villages conducts a study of children's services needs in rural West Tennessee. More than 126 children's services officials are interviewed as part of the study. The study reveals that the region's greatest need is intensive in-home counseling for troubled families.
1994
•Through start-up funds provided by the Plough Foundation and other donors, Youth Villages initiates home-based counseling programs in collaboration with the Medical University of South Carolina. Youth Villages becomes the first agency to use Multisystemic Therapy (MST) on a large scale outside of clinical trials.
•Additional offices are opened in Dyersburg, Clarksville, Paris and Columbia.
1995
•The number of children served annually by Youth Villages tops 1,000.
•Youth Villages executes a fully integrated Continuum of Care, which has since become a model for other mental health care providers nationwide.
•A major expansion of the Morris-Wilson Campus School and Activities Center at the Dogwood Village campus adds 5,000-square-feet to the school.
•Youth Villages receives the Tennessee Quality Achievement Award.
1996
•Youth Villages receives the Greater Memphis Award for Quality.
•Youth Villages expands Home-Based Counseling to Mississippi; opens offices in Jackson.
•The United Way of America awards Youth Villages the Silver Excellence in Service Quality Award. Youth Villages is the first agency nationwide to receive this award, based on the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige criteria.
1997
•The Family Link, an agency that operates the area's only emergency shelter for runaway and homeless teens, becomes a program of Youth Villages.
•Office is opened in Jonesboro, Ark.
•Youth Villages opens Paidia's Place, a group home for girls with developmental disabilities.
•The 11,000-square-foot Mike Bruns Family Counseling Center opens at the Bartlett campus, the former Memphis Boys Town.
•Administrator Patrick W. Lawler receives the Thomas Briggs Community Service Award.
1998
•Nashville-based Serendipity House, founded in 1973, becomes a program of Youth Villages, doubling our capacity to care for children in Middle Tennessee. In addition to expanding the Treatment Foster Care and In-home Counseling programs, the partnership with Serendipity House brings new services to Youth Villages, including three group homes in the Nashville area. •Youth Villages offers foster care in Mississippi through a new office in Tupelo.
•The Family Link Shelter moves into a newly renovated and more accessible 5,000-square-foot building.
•Youth Villages opens Coteswood Home, a group home for boys with developmental disabilities and no viable family support.
1999
•The Tennessee Medical Association names Youth Villages recipient of its Community Service Award.
•The Day Foundation funds a $2-million Transitional Living program to help children in aging out of foster care and state custody make a successful move to independence.
•LHS, Inc. makes a $1.5-million four-year grant to fund a research study for a pilot Multisystemic Therapy-based service model designed to prevent at-risk youth from entering state custody.
•Treatment Foster Care and Intensive In-Home Counseling are expanded statewide in Mississippi.
2000
•Adoption services for children with special needs are initiated throughout Tennessee.
•In recognition for its work with young people, Youth Villages receives the Bridges Salute to Youth Award.
•In February, Youth Villages opens Binkley Home, a group home in Nashville, Tenn.
•Services are expanded to East Tennessee with the opening of the Knoxville office.
•Through a donation from the Knights of Columbus, Youth Villages opens a third group home in the Memphis area, Brunswick Home.
•Youth Villages tops 2,000 children served annually.
•The Franklin Covey Company names Youth Villages the recipient of its Humanitarian Service Award at its 7th Annual International Symposium.
•Youth Villages is cited as a national model in a study commissioned by the American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C.
•The National Coalition for Juvenile Justice highlights Youth Villages as a national model in its annual report and calls for other states to implement similar programs.
2001
•The Youth Villages In-home Counseling program expands to Dallas, Texas, and further into East Tennessee with the opening of additional offices in Chattanooga and Johnson City.
•Youth Villages conducts its most successful fund-raising campaign -- raising more than $11 million for the construction of a new school and activities center and a Center for Intensive Residential Treatment on the Bartlett campus. Ground is broken for the two buildings. Highlights of the capital campaign include:
?Matching a challenge grant from the Plough Foundation, raising a total of $6 million.
?The receipt of the at the time largest single contribution in Youth Villages' history -- a gift of $2.5 million from the Barret Trust.
•The Middle Tennessee regional headquarters expands in Nashville.
•Youth Villages is cited in a national report by the American Youth Policy Forum as one of eight "guiding light" models in the United States with programs that successfully reduce the incidence of juvenile crime.
2002
•The Youth Villages In-home Counseling program expands into Alabama with the opening of offices in Anniston and Huntsville.
•The Treatment Foster Care program expands into East Tennessee in the existing locations in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Johnson City.
•An additional Mississippi office opens in Hattiesburg, offering both In-home Counseling and Treatment Foster Care to the coastal region of the state.
•Youth Villages launches a new program, CHOICES, to help children with severe developmental disabilities. Based on extensive research with parents, the program offers two distinct services:
?in-home support to families of children with developmental disabilities
?professional support homes for children whose families are not able to care for them in their own homes.
•The Adoption Program celebrates its 50th placement of a special-needs child in an adoptive home.
•Construction is completed on the Paul Barret Jr. School, and the state-of-the-art learning and activities center opens its doors to Youth Villages students.
•Youth Villages helps more children than ever before -- having served more than 3,000 children and their families during 2002.
2003
•Offices in Dickson and Morristown,Tenn., open in order to enhance services in Middle and East Tennessee.
•The state-of-the-art $7.5-million Center for Intensive Residential Treatment opens at the Bartlett campus. The 44,000-square-foot building accommodates up to 62 children with more serious mental health needs.
•The Specialized Crisis Services program is launched statewide in Tennessee. Mobile crisis counselors serve children under 18 years of age who experience an acute psychiatric emergency.
2004
•The newly formed Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation chooses Youth Villages to receive its first gift -- a $500,000 grant -- and also partners with Youth Villages to promote mentoring and literacy.
•The Multisystemic Therapy (MST), treatment model receives national recognition and approval from the prestigious National Institutes of Health.
•Youth Villages serves more than 8,000 children and their families during 2004.
•Youth Villages receives a $250,000-planning grant from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to work with the Bridgespan Group to develop a strategic business plan.
2005
•Washington, D.C., awards Youth Villages a contract to provide Multisystemic Therapy to foster children.
•Youth Villages increased its presence in the state of Alabama with the expansion of our nationally recognized Treatment Foster Care program.
•Youth Villages begins an In-home Counseling program in the state of North Carolina.
•Youth Villages helps more than 11,000 children and their families.
•The New York City-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation makes grants to help nonprofit organizations that work with youth from low-income backgrounds strengthen their operations and expand their programs to better serve a larger number of young people. Youth Villages was selected by EMFC to receive support for business planning after a comprehensive review of the organization, including the quality of its programs, depth of leadership, financial strength and commitment to using data to assess its programs and make ongoing improvements. The plan lays out how Youth Villages can effectively expand services and improve the quality of its programs.
2006
•Youth Villages receives a second grant for $6 million from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to help the organization implement the plan.
•Youth Villages opens four offices in North Carolina to deliver In-home Counseling.
•Youth Villages opens its Operations Center, serving as headquarters that brings leadership, program support and key administrative staff together under one roof. The building of the Operations Center concludes the first phase of the Project 2010 Capital Campaign.
•U.S. News & World Report features Youth Villages CEO Patrick W. Lawler as one of "America's Best Leaders," along with such notables as investment guru Warren Buffett, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Proctor and Gamble chief A.G. Lafley. The project was undertaken in collaboration with the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, whose mission is to further leadership for the common good through excellence in leadership research, education and development.
2007
•The Youth Villages Transitional Living Program is awarded a $1.5-million grant by the state of Tennessee to help an extra 300 children on their way to independent adulthood. The state grant matches a $1.5-million grant issued by The Day Foundation.
•Youth Villages expands to Massachusetts with In-Home Counseling.
•North Carolina and Alabama operations expand with the addition of offices in Wilmington, Hickory and Mobile.
•Youth Villages begins construction on the Center for Girls, an intensive residential center, designed to meet the special needs of girls who have severe emotional and behavioral problems and must have help in a secure environment.
2008
•Youth Villages opens its first offices in Florida, bringing Intensive In-Home Services to Tampa and Lakeland.
•Youth Villages adds another office in Massachusetts: Woburn, to serve the Boston area.
•Youth Villages expands to Georgia, offering Intensive In-Home Services to children and families in Atlanta.
•Youth Villages opens another office in North Carolina, serving children and families in Pinehurst.
•Youth Villages expands its services in Alabama, opening an office in Dothan.
2009
•Youth Villages opens new offices in Miami, Florida; Asheville, North Carolina; Roanoke, Virginia; and Worcester, Massachusetts.
•The Youth Villages Center for Girls celebrates its grand opening in Bartlett, Tennessee.
•Youth Villages launches the Anaya Partnership, providing services to children and families from a new office in Midtown Memphis.
•Youth Villages is planning new locations in Charlotte, North Carolina and Hernando, Mississippi.
•Harvard Business School publishes case study on Youth Villages, holding it up as a national leader in the field of children's behavioral health.
•Youth Villages earns praise from the White House, identified as being among "effective, innovative non-profits" that are "high-impact, result oriented" organizations.
•Youth Villages agrees to a merger with Inner Harbour in Atlanta, Georgia.
•Youth Villages begins providing intensive in-home services in New Hampshire.
2010
•Youth Villages opens a 10th office in North Carolina: Fayetteville.
•Youth Villages opens its first office in New Hampshire: Manchester.
Benefits
Tuition and Licensure Reimbursement, Relocation packages for cerain offices.