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"...
Year: 2016 Articles
Giving Tuesday gives Youth Villages 80 Holiday Heroes in Asheville
See a photo gallery from the event. Youth Villages’ Holiday Heroes party helped find Holiday Heroes for 80 children and former foster youth helped by Youth Villages in the Asheville area. The event was held on Giving Tuesday (Nov. 29, 2016) at Off the Wagon Dueling...
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...
Youth Villages names Jenny Bush to national board
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Nov. 18, 2016) – Youth Villages, one of the largest providers of children’s behavioral health services in the country, has named Jenny Bush, president of Cummins Mid-South and Southern Plains, to its national board of directors. Bush, a native of...
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...
Steven Tyler to receive 2016 Humanitarian Award at the UN Ambassadors’ Ball
Legendary rocker honored for Janie's Fund -- his partnership with nonprofit Youth Villages. NEW YORK (Nov. 17, 2016) – The Hospitality Committee for United Nations Delegations has named Steven Tyler the recipient of its 2016 Humanitarian Award. Tyler will be honored...
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...