The Road Home

For many children we help, the road of life has been anything but easy. Because most of our children have already endured more hardship, trauma and troubles than many adults will see in their entire life’s journey, our programs focus on setting them on the path for a lifetime of success.

We focus on serving children and families effectively while helping to transform child welfare systems. This year, we helped 16,295 children and their families—2,343 more than last year—chart a different course for their lives. You’ll meet some of them in this report. Even with such growth, our programs’ integrity remained intact, with success rates reaching more than 80 percent.

Some highlights of our year include:

◊ Expanding into New Hampshire.

◊ Continued recognition from the White House.

◊ Recognition in a Casey Family Programs case study for partnering with Tennessee to safely reduce the number of children in foster care by 34 percent.

◊ Being named one of the Top 50 Nonprofits to Work For by The Nonprofit Times and Best Companies Group.

◊ Receiving employee contributions of more than $850,000 to help with our important work.

We’ve also encountered hardships along our journey this year, with flooding in Atlanta and Middle Tennessee destroying offices and homes. But our Youth Villages team continued to help one another and our families in these challenging circumstances. Their generosity and that of our volunteers, mentors, foster parents and donors is overwhelming.

Helping our children and families step solidly on the road to success takes all of us. With your support, we can do more next year: we can expand into new communities and help more children and families. We can be the force for good, the force for change—the force for families.

Thank you for your help,

Michael J. Bruns Chairman of the Board of Directors

Patrick W. Lawler CEO

“And think about Youth Villages, which Sonal Shah—the director of my Social Innovation team—visited in Memphis as part of our Community Solutions Tour… In 1994, Youth Villages decided to focus on a home-based model to help children struggling to overcome serious emotional or behavior challenges. Since then, they have seen remarkable results…Imagine if we could help every child with these challenges reintegrate into their community? Youth Villages tells us it’s possible.”

Youth Villages

17,000 children problems intensive in-home and vision www.YouthVillages.org.

Villages family counselors have helped more than children with serious emotional and behavioral and their families since it began offering in-home services in 1994.

Services Commissioner, custody since 2000.

-The NonProfit Times and Best Companies Group