It's back-to-school for children receiving help on the Youth Villages-Inner Harbour Campus near Atlanta, Georgia, but it's not school as usual. The campus school specializes in helping children with emotional and behavioral problems capture the joy of learning through...
Year: 2018 Articles
Oklahoma: Austin faces life’s challenges
Every young person who leaves foster care has to overcome challenges to become an independent adult. At 19, Austin has had more than his fair share. In the stretch of just a few months, the young man moved out of his foster home, found a job, underwent open heart...
Annual T.O.U.G.H. Run set for Oct. 27
Youth Villages Georgia is hosting its second annual T.O.U.G.H. Run October 27 at 9:00 a.m. at the Inner Harbour Campus near Atlanta, Georgia. The race course goes through 3.1 miles of natural, wooded setting. It will challenge participants physically while allowing...
Birthday Heroes let kids know people care
For many kids, their birthday is one of the most exciting days of the year. Unfortunately, this is not always the case for Youth Villages’ children. For children receiving help on our residential campuses, birthdays can serve as a painful reminder that they are not...
DeNyse becomes T.O.U.G.H. Run presenting sponsor
A volunteer day with children at Youth Villages-Inner Harbour Campus led DeNyse Companies to take a larger role in support of our organization. The Douglasville-based company – through its DeNyse Cares Foundation — will be the presenting sponsor for the second annual...
Kameron becomes part of her family’s solution
When 16-year-old Kameron first came to Youth Villages, she knew she needed help. She had a traumatic upbringing and was struggling with severe depression and aggression. “Kameron’s trauma made her feel scared, angry and aggressive toward other kids and her...
James D. Lackie appointed chairman of the board
MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 10, 2018 -- James “Jimmy” D. Lackie has been named chairman of the board of directors of Youth Villages, the national nonprofit organization headquartered in Memphis. Lackie is founder and president of River Street Management, an investment and...
Step by step, Youth Villages helps Sawyer and her mom overcome her refusal to go to school
The anxiety of going to school caused Sawyer, a seventh-grader, to have migraines and become sick…
Reuniting families after addiction: The Brysons push forward to recovery
As teens, Terra Bryson and her husband used drugs some, but they had been clean 10 years and were raising three children when a moment of vulnerability led to relapse. The Tennessee Department of Children’s Services was called about the children’s safety, and...
Olivia finds hope for the future
“I was in, I guess, what you’d call a permanent depressed state,” Olivia said. She was living with an abusive boyfriend and felt she couldn’t leave, couldn’t make her own decisions. “I went through a phase where I couldn’t even eat. My body stopped digesting food...