The Centers provides a variety of behavioral health services and prevention programs for children and youth, ages two up to age 21. We serve more than 8,000 children and family members in Arkansas each year. We help parents, runaway and homeless youth, foster children and parents, emotionally and behaviorally disturbed youth, impoverished youth, children of incarcerated parents, learning disabled youth and pregnant and parenting teens.
Centers for Youth and Families’ mission is to provide specialized prevention, intervention and treatment services that promote emotional and social wellness for children and families of Arkansas. We meet this mission through services provided at our prevention services, residential care facilities, youth emergency shelter, therapeutic foster care, school-based and outpatient counseling and day treatment programs.