Patrick Lawler, CEO of Youth Villages, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children and their families live successfully, will speak at the Customer Response Summit in Memphis at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23. The summit, presented by Execs In The...
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Journal features Youth Villages’ take ‘Pay for Success’ Highlights Tennessee’s DCS performance-based contracting
An article featuring the work of Youth Villages is among more than 20 articles on “pay for success,” the performance-based contracting concept that is touted to improve outcomes for children and families while increasing accountability for taxpayers and governmental...
Public/private partnership boosts former Tennessee foster kids
While former foster children nationally are more likely to experience homelessness, unemployment and incarceration, a report released today shows that former foster kids in Tennessee are achieving higher rates of success through a program that may save taxpayers more...
Youth Villages-ChristieCare of Oregon receives $250,000 donation
More home-based help for children with emotional and behavioral problems and their families in rural Oregon will be one of the results of a recent $250,000 donation to Youth Villages-ChristieCare of Oregon from Roseburg’s Ford Family Foundation. The donation...
Youth Villages begins helping troubled children and their families in Boone area
Youth Villages, a private nonprofit dedicated to helping children with emotional, behavioral and mental health issues and their families, recently began offering help to children and families in their own homes in five counties in the Smoky Mountain Center area. Youth...
Youth Villages helps more than 2,500 Children in North Carolina
Youth Villages North Carolina has reached a milestone serving more than 2,500 children and their families throughout the state, safely helping hundreds of troubled children every year in their own homes as an effective and cost-effective alternative to group homes and...
Day Foundation announces $42 million legacy challenge grant to Youth Villages
The Day Foundation announced today it will give Youth Villages a $42 million legacy challenge grant primarily to help expand the organization’s transitional living program that helps older foster children become successful adults. It is the largest single grant ever...
ChristieCare and Youth Villages celebrate merger with Native American drumming, honor songs
Drumming and honor songs were featured as ChristieCare of Oregon merged with Youth Villages, a national nonprofit organization, in a celebration today at the nonprofit organization’s campus in Lake Oswego. Youth Villages-ChristieCare offers one of the only culturally...
A new program is bringing intensive help to children with emotional and behavioral problems and their families in Clackamas and Washington counties
A new program is bringing intensive help to children with emotional and behavioral problems and their families in Clackamas and Washington counties. Oregon Intercept, a partnership between ChristieCare and Youth Villages, a national nonprofit organization, provides...
Bullhorn CEO serves as Youth Villages career coach for former foster child
Most of the time, Art Papas of Weston, Mass., co-founder and CEO of Bullhorn, is busy developing web-based applications to improve business processes. During the past month, he has set time aside to volunteer as a career coach to Keith Marquez, a young adult who spent...