Father Flanagans Boys Home HQ
Saving Children, Healing Families
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Improve circumstances for those who are suffering from abuse, addiction, abandonment or violence, so they can reach their potential.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Family-Style Residential Care
This program provides long-term, family-style care for youth who are not able to live with their own families and who can benefit from learning social skills and building health relationships.
The Boys Town Family Home ProgramSM offers a safe haven for children ages 10 to 18 who have been removed from their homes. These children are cared for Family-Teachers, trained married couples who live in Family Homes and provide a much-needed, family-style environment where the children can regain their trust in others, learn valuable social and independent-living skills, and experience what it's like to just be a kid.
Boys Town Foster Family Services provide professional training for Foster Parents who open their own homes to children of all ages to provide safe, effective care. Foster Parents receive 24-hour support from Boys Town.
Parent Education Services
These services are designed to help parents and other caregivers develop effective child-rearing skills and build healthier family relationships in order to prevent crisis situations.
Common Sense Parenting provides parents with proven techniques that can help them build strong family relationships, prevent and correct misbehavior, and improve positive behavior.
BoysTown.org/Parenting is a free online resource that provides practical, skill-based materials and information for parents and caregivers of children of all ages.
The Boys Town Press produces books, audio products, DVDs, display materials and other resources to assist children, parents, caregivers, educators and other professionals.
Educator Training Services
These services include programs that are focused on empowering teachers and school staff with the necessary skills to help children succeed in the classroom, academically and behaviorally.
Boys Town School-Based ProgramsSM provide a variety of training and instructional resources for teachers, administrators and other school staff that can support or enhance an educational environment.
Boys Town Schools include school programs operated by specially trained Boys Town teachers and administrators that help students with learning or behavioral problems find success in the classroom, including students who are being served by Boys Town programs or have struggled or failed in mainstream schools.
Family & Community Services
These services help struggling families stay together or help families reunite if children have been removed from the home.
Boys Town In-Home Family Services have trained In-Home Family Consultants who help families right in their homes. They empower parents by teaching them new parenting skills and provide emotional support 24/7.
Boys Town Care Coordination Services help families identify and access needed supports and resources, and navigate systems of care in order to keep children safe and improve home stability. Consultants assist with parenting skill development and teach parents to advocate for themselves.
Boys Town Outpatient Behavioral HealthSM therapist work with children, toddlers to teens, and their families to identify and treat difficult youth behavior issues. Issues could include anxiety, depression, school problems or anger management, just to name a few.
Crisis Services
These provide immediate care to youth or families whose physical safety or emotional or mental health is in jeopardy.
Boys Town Intervention and Assessment Services provide short-term care for abused, neglected, runaway and delinquent youth by removing them from dangerous situations, determining their needs and working toward family reunification or other permanent care.
The Boys Town National Hotline (800-448-3000) is a free resource and counseling service available to youth and parents 24/7 nationwide, receiving more than 150,000 contacts a year.
Another service the Hotline offer is YourLifeYourVoice.org, a special website that enables and encourages teens to share their problems, concerns and challenges in positive, creative ways and provides access to immediate help in a crisis.
Psychiatric Treatment Services
These services benefit youth who face serious mental health disorders and require the most intensive treatment available. Boys and girls receive inpatient care at two treatment centers on our home campus in Omaha, Neb.
The Boys Town Residential Treatment Center provides medically directed care for youth (ages 5-18) with severe behavioral health problems or mental illness.
The Child-Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Unit serves children and adolescents in crisis, meeting a real need in the community.
Boys Town National Research Hospital
The hospital provides medical and surgical services at two hospital locations and six outpatient clinics in the Omaha, Nebraska, metropolitan area. it is recognized internationally as a leader in communication disorder research and as a referral center for children with disorders of the ear, hearing and balance, cleft lip and palate, speech, and voice, as well as related disabilities.
Boys Town Pediatrics, our group of pediatric physicians, provides primary care and specialty
pediatric medical services at four clinic locations in the Omaha area.
Where we work
Accreditations
Council on Accreditation (COA) [for Children and Family Services] - Accreditation 2010
Council on Accreditation (COA) [for Children and Family Services] - Accreditation 2019
Council on Accreditation (COA) [for Children and Family Services] - Accreditation 2022
Awards
100 Best Communities for Young People 2011
America's Promise Alliance
Affiliations & memberships
Alliance for Children and Families - Member 2022
Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance 2019
Teaching Family Association 2019
Charity Navigator 2020
BBB WISE GIVING ALLIANCE 2020
BBB WISE GIVING ALLIANCE 2021
Charity Navigator 2021
BBB WISE GIVING ALLIANCE 2022
BBB WISE GIVING ALLIANCE 2022
Chairty Navigator 2023
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of children served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth
Related Program
Family & Community Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
545,847 children were impacted by the services of Boys Town.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Boys Town's Mission is to change the way America cares for children and families. We believe that every child deserves a future, every family deserves to stay together and every community deserves to thrive. And we believe that all of these things should be achievable without regard to race, religion or background.
Boys Town will pursue its Mission guided by five principle goals: 1) ensure all Boys Town programs are delivered with the highest quality 2) innovate the next generation of effective models of care 3) prove through research that its programs generate high impact and are worth the investment 4) influence decision-makers through local and national advocacy to support high-quality services for children and families and 5) continue to enhance the impact of Boys Town Health Care.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Boys Town's Strategic Plan for identifies2022-2026 is attached. Each of the initiatives has an implementation leader and team whose responsibility is to manage the plan, timelines, and milestones for implementation.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Though we have grown to become a national organization that reaches communities from coast to coast, and our scope has expanded to include in-home family counseling, health care and programs to rebuild at-risk schools, Boys Town remains forever driven by our founder’s singular vision. And with your help, we will do so well into our second century and beyond.
Based on more than 100 years of experience helping children and families, Boys Town has a well-defined national program support model that includes training, evaluation, consultation, and administrative systems designed to ensure implementation and measurement of quality services. The Boys Town Translational Research Center, staffed by highly qualified scientists, conducts research in collaboration with external partners to inform and advance the evidence-base for Boys Town programs. The Boys Town Advocacy team leads the national advocacy efforts at the federal level as well as to support the local advocacy efforts at Boys Town affiliate sites. The Boys Town Health Care division has strong leadership and vision for the future of health care services.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
On December 12, 2017, Boys Town celebrated 100 years of service to America's most vulnerable children and families. Today, Boys Town carries on the vision of our founder, Father Edward Flanagan, as a multifaceted haven of hope and healing that touches the lives of more than two million people across the country every year. What began as a revolutionary idea to change how America cared for children is now one of the country's largest nonprofit child and family organizations.
Boys Town has enthusiastically accepted its leadership role in reshaping and reforming child and family care. Boys Town's obligation has always been to help fix what is broken, improve what works well, and to share expertise, experience and knowledge so more children and families benefit. As the needs of children and families have changed and become more complex, Boys Town has responded by developing new ways to make a positive difference in their lives.
As Boys Town moves into its second century, it will continue to shine as a beacon of hope for all America – ignited by faith, dedication and love, sustained through knowledge, research and experience, and forever burning brightly because so many believe every boy and girl deserves a happy, healthy, productive life.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Father Flanagans Boys Home
Board of directorsas of 06/24/2024
Kathleen Driscoll
Barker Tom
Kathleen F. Driscoll
Archdiocese of Boston
Jodi L. Probst
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Thomas Barker
Linda LeBlanc
Thomas J. Culhane
Erickson & Sederstrom
Helen Fox-O'Brien
Sherrye L. Hutcherson
EVP - Bellevue University
Richard J. Velasco
Joni W. Wheeler
BC/BS
Robert Nkogo-Nze
Orion Advisor Solutions
Mark Tilden, Esq
Janet Twyman, Ph.D.
Dorothy Zolandz
Ph.D.
Anthony Aquino
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.