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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...

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...

$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...

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...

$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...

Youth Villages welcomes Nashville-based Serendipity House - 1998 Nashville-based Serendipity House, founded in 1973, becomes a program of Youth Villages, doubling our capacity to care for children in Middle Tennessee.

Memphis-based Family Link joins Youth Villages - 1997 The Family Link in Memphis, an agency that operates the area's only emergency shelter for runaway and homeless teens, becomes a program of Youth Villages. The 11,000-square-foot Mike Bruns Family Counseling Center...

Youth Villages expands Home-Based Counseling to Mississippi - 1996 Youth Villages expands Intercept intensive in-home services to Mississippi. The United Way of America awards Youth Villages the Silver Excellence in Service Quality Award. Youth Villages is the first...

Over 1,000 Children Served - 1995 Youth Villages executes a fully integrated continuum of care, which becomes a national model for other mental health care providers. A major expansion of the Morris-Wilson Campus School and Activities Center at the Dogwood Campus adds...

Home-Based Counseling Programs are Initiated and Additional Offices are Opened in Tennessee - 1994 Through start-up funds provided by the Plough Foundation and other donors, Youth Villages initiates Intercept intensive in-home services in collaboration with the...