A. Girls and Boys Town offers a variety of other unique and innovative programs to provide care to as many troubled youths as possible, including:
GIRLS AND BOYS TOWN - Takes the programs developed in the Village of Boys Town and establishes them across the United States. The USA sites may include long-term Residential Services homes, one or more – more... of four other services, or a combination of any of these programs. Besides long-term Residential Services, other programs include Emergency Services, Family Preservation Services, Treatment Foster Family Services and Common Sense Parenting®. These programs are offered in the community and to surrounding regions.
EMERGENCY SERVICES - Short-term, emergency care for youths ages 10 to 18 who are runaways or cannot stay in their own homes. The program features family style living, counseling, parent training, parent-youth mediation sessions and follow-up services. It emphasizes family reunification if it is in the best interest of the child.
FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES - Intensive in-home treatment for families in crisis. Trained Family Consultants work in the home to help parents build and develop parenting skills that will heal family pain and abuse through structure and problem-solving. The staff is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
TREATMENT FOSTER FAMILY SERVICES - Foster parents are recruited and trained by Girls and Boys Town to incorporate the effective treatment techniques of healing children developed in our long-term residential homes. The program is unique in that it focuses attention on the special problems of the children in our foster care and helps them change problem behaviors. The program provides regular counseling services, respite services, and 24-hour on-call support services for foster parents.
COMMON SENSE PARENTING® - A parent-training session where parents, in small groups, learn new parenting skills and build upon their strengths and those of their children. The six-session class focuses on resolving difficulties and allows parents to learn, practice and demonstrate new parenting skills.
BOYS TOWN NATIONAL HOTLINE (1-800-448-3000) - A toll-free telephone crisis, resource and referral service for children and parents. It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, utilizing highly trained, professional telephone counselors. All calls are maintained to completion - meaning a referral is made or the problem is resolved. More than 370,000 calls from children and their families were answered in 1995.
NATIONAL RESOURCE AND TRAINING CENTER - Develops workshops, training programs and materials to help other child-care providers, teachers, school administrators and mental health care workers. Specially designed programs also are applicable to treatment foster care programs, family preservation services, emergency shelters and parent training courses. The center provides other professionals with skill-based training and on-site consultation in order to share Girls and Boys Town's unparalleled expertise in treating children who are emotionally or behaviorally disturbed, delinquent or academically delayed.
The National Resource and Training Center offers the following services:
- Affiliated Site Services - Agencies may formally affiliate with Girls and Boys Town and receive site certification and access to technical and program services.
- Specialized Workshops - Provide information to non-affiliated professionals and organizations on topics including working with aggressive youth and intervention with suicidal youth.
- Program Development Services - Technical services are tailored to a child-care provider's specific needs, and follow-up services are provided.
- Educational Training - Uses workshops to train other school systems, administrators and teachers to use Girls and Boys Town's highly successful techniques.
BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL - A state-of-the-art research, prevention, diagnostic and treatment facility for youngsters with speech, language and hearing disorders. In 1990, the hospital, which is located in Omaha, NE., was designated by the National Institutes of Health as the first National Research and Training Center for Childhood Deafness.
An important objective of the facility is to train other professionals in the clinical and research techniques pioneered by our hospital.
In 1996, more than 24,000 children and adolescents were treated at the hospital. Since 1977, when the hospital opened as the Boys Town Institute, more than 100,000 children have been examined, diagnosed or treated for speech, hearing, learning and related disorders.
BOYS TOWN READING CENTER - Conducts applied research on literacy programs at Girls and Boys Town schools. The center is using this research to design programs aimed at improving the reading and writing skills of "at-risk" adolescents, ages 14-17. The goal of the Center is to help Girls and Boys Town students improve their reading skills and to disseminate these programs to other schools around the country. – less – More from ZoomInfo »
