MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Jennifer Hoffman Jones has been named chief marketing officer at Youth Villages, the Memphis-headquartered private nonprofit organization that helps more than 22,000 emotionally troubled children and their families each year in 12 states and the...
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From living on the street to leading Youth Villages Oregon: A Flawless Hero Gives Back
https://youtu.be/Q5379E6sCzY Andrew Grover, executive director of Youth Villages Oregon, was highlighted in a recent Huffington Post article by Janine Francolini, founder of the Flawless Foundation and Flawless Strategies. Francolini attended the "A Day to Soar"...
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Moving from Pass/Fail to continual progress
This article by Patrick Lawler, Youth Villages CEO, was written as part of a series on "Defining Positive Outcomes." Moving From Pass/Fail to Continuous Progress It’s hard to fully understand the effects of interventions that aim to address several life challenges at...
Kiera finds her way with YVLifeSet
Growing up, Kiera and her siblings were often caught in the middle of their parents’ violent fights. Kiera vividly remembers driving in a car with her parents when a fight broke out between them and her mother started hitting her father. It was one of many of her...
Teachers use a new kind of ABC’s to help students learn problem-solving skills
Youth Villages and Gestalt Community partner in Collaborative Problem Solving project. It’s a scorching summer day in Memphis, but Dr. Stuart Ablon, director of the Think:Kids program at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is easily holding the attention of...
Tulsa — a city with small-town warmth — is a great place to begin a Youth Villages career
Youth Villages Oklahoma offers opportunities in new programs in Tulsa and Oklahoma City Whitney Caldwell grew up in Tulsa, but has lived in various cities throughout the last decade, even South Africa. With a soft spot in her heart for her hometown, Caldwell recently...
Parents learn Plan A, B and C to solve their children’s behavior problems
Youth Villages adopts Collaborative Problem Solving in national partnership with Mass General's Think:Kids His mom thought Neko had been smoking marijuana again. Doing drugs was part of a slew of problems that had gotten him sent to a Tennessee youth detention center,...
Transforming the system: Youth Villages employee receives national activist award
Mary Lee uses her experience, legal degree to focus on helping the 23,000 young people who age out of foster care every year without family support. Mary Lee on the Champions of Change in Foster Care panel at the White House in 2015. By Christina Morgan Mary Lee may...
SPEED Round: North Carolina creates leadership course
Top from left to right: Lisa Vuchak, Brittany Williams, Jennifer Deaton, Tiana Sherrod and Diedre Herring. Bottom left to right: Christen Walker and Kelly FreemanNot pictured: Elizabeth Dory and Emma Summers As an organization that prides itself on professionally...
Flexibility and desire to make a difference drive YVLifeSet’s Amber Price
Amber Price meets with a YVLifeSet participant in her apartment in Memphis. A YVLifeSet specialist dedicated to helping young adults aging out of foster care succeed as independent adults, Amber Price knows to expect the unexpected. Many mornings, she rushes out of...