YVLifeSet Articles

Meet Hailey, a Tennessee YVLifeSet youth on the LifeSet Network

Meet Hailey, a Tennessee YVLifeSet youth on the LifeSet Network

Hailey is currently a sophomore in nursing school in Middle Tennessee and studying to become a Nurse Anesthetist. She likes playing tennis, hiking and loves avocados. She also just got her first apartment! Hailey aged out of foster care and is now in the YVLifeSet...

CrossFit competition benefits Youth Villages Middle Tennessee

CrossFit competition benefits Youth Villages Middle Tennessee

Youth Villages partnered with CrossFit Forte in Nashville for the inaugural CrossFit Forte Force for Families competition in April. The first-time, sold-out event engaged 100 athletes in community-wide partner competition raising more than $10,000 for the YVLifeSet...

Event recap: 7th Annual Vanderbilt MBA Golf Classic

Event recap: 7th Annual Vanderbilt MBA Golf Classic

In May, Youth Villages Middle Tennessee hosted the seventh annual Vanderbilt MBA Golf Classic in partnership with the Owen Golf Club, an association of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin,...

KiteTales North Carolina event raises $140,000 since inception

KiteTales North Carolina event raises $140,000 since inception

  Barbara Ashford, Director of Natural Gas Community Relations at Piedmont Natural Gas (PNG), displays the celebratory KiteTales cowbell. A special thanks to PNG, who has been KiteTales’ presenting sponsor for three years.Youth Villages North Carolina...

Tiney achieves his goals by taking the driver’s seat

Tiney achieves his goals by taking the driver’s seat

Tiney’s life has had big ups and downs. He was adopted from foster care as a baby, but after his adoptive mother died, he was back in the system at 15. In just a few weeks, Tiney turns 18 and will age out of the Pennsylvania foster care system. Fortunately, he’s...

Guidestar: Youth Villages uses data to enhance programs

Guidestar: Youth Villages uses data to enhance programs

 Youth Villages was featured in "Your Engine of Impact: Impact Evaluation," on Guidestar: Blog. "Youth Villages is an organization that has benefited greatly from conducting external evaluation of its programs." The article talks about the randomized clinical...

The New York Times features YVLifeSet

 The Youth Villages YVLifeSet program was prominently featured Nov. 19 in The New York Times Sunday edition in the Business section in connection with the release of the annual High Impact Giving Guide from the Center for High Impact Philanthropy. Read the full...

Local program helps teens aging out of foster care

  Memphis' ABC affiliate, Local 24, featured a Good News story about Youth Villages' YVLifeSet program. Hear from YVLifeSet participant Carmill Piggy about her experience with our program, as well as from YVLifeSet specialist Casey Falk. Watch the full...

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