Bartlett, TN Social Service Organization: Youth Villages
THE YOUTH VILLAGES 5K STORY
Over the past 26 years, the Youth Village 5K run has raised over $1.5 million for the children and programs at Youth Villages. The money raised has been directly responsible for several vital improvements to the Youth Villages Bartlett Campus. This includes an enclosed dining hall, refurbishment of the living quarters, a lakeside jogging path, a gymnasium within the new Paul W.
Barret, Jr. School, and this years project, the new Intensive Residential Treatment Facility for Girls.
About Youth Villages
Founded in Memphis in 1986, Youth Villages is a private, nonprofit organization that provides an array of programs and services to more than 11,000 children and their families each year in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina, Texas, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Youth Villages provides residential treatment, home-based counseling, therapeutic foster care, adoption and outpatient psychiatric services for those in need.
Youth Villages has been recognized nationally as a model in the treatment of troubled children and their families. Additional information about Youth Villages and its programs can be found online at:
http://www.youthvillages5k.com/
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