Youth Villages is a national non-profit organization that provides residential, in‑home, foster care, and community‑based services for children, adolescents, and families with emotional and behavioral challenges, with a mission to help vulnerable young people live successfully in their families and communities.
Advocacy and policy work focused on child welfare and foster care reform, access to youth mental and behavioral health services, Medicaid and public funding for evidence‑based community‑based care, alternatives to institutionalization, and juvenile justice diversion and reentry supports.
Mixed funding model including government contracts and reimbursements (Medicaid and state child welfare payments), fee‑for‑service revenue, private philanthropy and foundation grants, and individual donations.
Partnerships with state child welfare agencies and Medicaid managed care organizations, collaborations with community mental health providers and university research partners, and support from philanthropic foundations and major individual donors.
Non-profit (501(c)(3)) social service organization
