Redmond, Ore. – Youth Villages Oregon has expanded services to Central Oregon to help children with emotional and behavioral problems and their families in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties.
Youth Villages will offer its Intercept intensive in-home services in the area and launch a new program to help children who are seen in hospital emergency rooms for mental health-related issues. To provide the services, Youth Villages Oregon has a new office in Redmond and will employ a supervisor and eight intensive in-home and ER specialists.
The new program started in Redmond on November 2nd.
“We are proud to be working with others in Central Oregon to fill gaps in services for children with very serious mental, emotional and behavioral health needs and their families,” said Rebecca Hancock, executive director of Youth Villages Oregon.
Through the program, family intervention specialists with low caseloads meet an average of three times each week in the family’s home at the family’s convenience. Specialists are on call 24/7 to help in case of family emergencies and work in the home, community, neighborhood and school.
“Our Intercept intensive in-home program provides help to the entire family, not just the child,” Hancock said. “It helps strengthen families so they can help their children.”
The organization’s ER diversion program will help children who are seen for mental health issues in area hospitals receive the most effective help and support.
The Youth Villages ER specialists may go home with the family from the hospital to help ensure the safety of the child in the home. Youth Villages also supports the child and family for up to two weeks after hospital discharge to help the family receive effective services in the home and community.
Youth Villages Oregon is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children with emotional and behavioral problems and their families. The non-profit uses a special approach that focuses on family restoration and measures the outcomes, and has a long-term success rate of 80 percent.
One of the nation’s first and largest providers of intensive in-home services. The organization has been recognized by Harvard Business School and U.S. News & World Report, and was identified by The White House as one of the nation’s most promising results-oriented nonprofit organizations. For more information, visit www.youthvillages.org.
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