Resources for Helping Children

Alpine Academy: (Part of Youth Village) The Village changes the lives of troubled children and families and offers residential care in Treatment Foster Homes and in Group Homes. The Village also offers in-home help through Families First, an intensive program that teaches parents valuable skills. Other programs include Parenting For Success classes, therapy, and privately funded higher education grants for Village graduates.

One of the Group Homes is the Village's Alpine Academy which provides residential treatment for teenage girls from all over the country. Located in rural Tooele County, Utah, Alpine Academy provides a small, family-style environment with an emphasis on individualized treatment and academic excellence, using the Teaching-Family Model, the treatment model used in all Village programs. Help One Child, Help Generations to Come.

http://www.youthvillage.org

Hope Meadows: Hope Meadows is a unique residential community -- a five-block small-town neighborhood where neglected and abused children who have been removed from their biological parents for their safety, find a permanent and caring home, as well as grandparents, playmates and an entire neighborhood designed to help them grow up in a secure and nurturing environment. Hope Meadows is a place where children, adoptive parents and surrogate grandparents develop supportive relationships capable of healing the hurts of abuse and neglect - a place where three generations care for and learn from each other.

www.generationsofhope.org

Idaho Youth Ranch: The Idaho Youth Ranch provides troubled children and families a bridge to a valued, responsible and productive future. To this end, we help each child find the hope, vision, courage and will to succeed. We provide stability, opportunity and security. We encourage growth and offer a chance to develop confidence, independence, esteem and respect. We teach values, responsibility and self-discipline in honest, caring environments. We believe in family, work, accountability, education and responsible behavior. We are a catalyst for change.

www.youthranch.org

Foster Care Alumni of America: FCAA successfully advocates for people in and from foster care, working toward improvements in practice and policy in child welfare. We build the capacity of our members and the foster care system through our strength in numbers and our deep expertise gained by experience.

www.fostercarealumni.org

Girls and Boys Town: Girls and Boys Town is America's largest privately funded organization serving severely at-risk, abused, abandoned and neglected children. The nonprofit, nonsectarian organization provides these children with a safe, caring, loving environment where they gain confidence to get better and learn skills to become productive citizens. Now 90 years strong, Girls and Boys Town continues to carry on Father Flanagan's mission to bring help, healing and hope to America's children.