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2008

Breaking Ground in Florida and Georgia - 2008 Youth Villages opens its first offices in Florida, bringing intensive in-home services to Tampa and Lakeland. Youth Villages expands to Georgia, offering intensive in-home services to children and families in Atlanta.

2007

$1.5-million grant Awarded by the State of Tennessee for YVLifeSet Program - 2007 The Youth Villages YVLifeSet Program is awarded a $1.5-million grant by the state of Tennessee to help an extra 300 children on their way to independent adulthood. The state matches a...

2006

Operations Center Opens - 2006 Youth Villages receives a second grant for $6 million from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to help the organization implement a growth plan. Youth Villages opens its Operations Center, bringing leadership, program support and key...

2005

Multisystemic Therapy Expands to North Carolina - 2005 Youth Villages begins offering Multisystemic Therapy in North Carolina.

2004

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Awards Youth Villages with a $250,000 Grant - 2004 Youth Villages receives a $250,000 planning grant from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation to work with the Bridgespan Group to develop a strategic business plan.

2003

44,000 sq. ft. expansion to Bartlett campus - 2003 The 44,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art $7.5-million Center for Intensive Residential Treatment opens at the Bartlett campus. The Specialized Crisis Services program is launched statewide in Tennessee. Mobile crisis...

2002

YVIntercept expands to Alabama - 2002 The Youth Villages YVIntercept intensive in-home services program expands into Alabama. Construction is completed on the Paul Barret Jr. School, and the state-of-the-art learning and activities center on the Bartlett Campus opens...

2001

$11M campaign is most successful to date - 2001 Youth Villages conducts its most successful fundraising campaign -- raising more than $11 million -- for the construction of a new school and activities center and a Center for Intensive Residential Treatment on the...

2000

Tennessee initiates special needs adoptions - 2000 Adoption services for children with special needs are initiated throughout Tennessee. Youth Villages is cited as a national model in a study commissioned by the American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. The...

1999

$2M gift expands transitional living offerings - 1999 The Day Foundation funds a $2-million Transitional Living program, which would become YVLifeSet, to help children aging out of foster care and state custody make a successful move to independence. Treatment Foster...

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