Youth Homes, Incorporated

Our goals includes ensuring that ALL children have access to a safe and healthy family home, a supportive and nurturing network of adults, opportunities to expand their well-being, including education, life and job-skills trainings, and access to trauma-informed care.

Our programs support basic needs, create safe environments, and provide therapeutic support to build optimism and confidence for the future. Our skilled team of clinicians and counselors use an individualized approach to meet the needs of each youth we work with. They role model positive social skills and help youth develop effective coping behaviors. Through this process youth recognize their self-worth, the value of their opinion and voice, and feel empower to advocate for themselves.

We combine the positive parenting principles of the Nurtured Heart Approach with the crisis management techniques of Pro-Act and Collaborative Problem Solving to deliver individualized, high quality services focused on strengthening permanent families ties and life long skills.

Our Continuum of Care includes a comprehensive range of community-based programs that allow youth and families to access resources where they live. These programs help our clients to process trauma, begin to heal, and build skills to navigate life's challenges. Our Programs are:

Short-Term Residential Therapeutic Program: Safe, secure, and stable home environments for foster youth (four 6-bed licenced STRTP homes)
Family Pathways Program: Working together to create connected families
Transition Age Youth Programs: Supporting underserved young adults through the transition into adulthood
Enrichment Programs: THerapeutic activities to enhance the healing process
Therapeutic Behavioral Services: Short-term family based behavioral interventions

We are celebrating 55 years of service to the community this year! From starting out as a small nonprofit providing foster youth shelter in group homes, we are now a mid-sized human service organization serving 300+ youth and families a year with our comprehensive continuum of care. We provide behavioral mental health services, enrichment programing, and much more (see above).

With a new CEO at the helm, we are entering a new era that is taking a strong look at how we can continue to impact the lives of deserving youth, while providing a high-quality of care that is efficient and cost effective. We a focusing more than ever to ensure that our clients and our staff experience a equitable, inclusive, and diverse environment when engaging with this organization. We've set big fundraising goals and are also thrilled to be operating a new Thrift Shop that will help diversify our income and also provide our Transitional Age Youth with opportunities for employment and job training.