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Originally founded in the early 1920s as an outreach of the United Methodist Church to be a residence for homeless and abandoned children, Youthville is a nonprofit child welfare agency in Kansas involved in Foster Care, Adoption, Residential Treatment, Counseling and Therapy. At any given time, Youthville exercises custody of over 1,400 Kansas children and is one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the state of Kansas. ==History== In the early 1920s, Mr. Edward P. Libbey left the bulk of his estate to the United Methodist Church's Youthville project. The City of Newton, Kansas led additional fundraising efforts. The new funds enabled of land to be purchased for an orphanage, which then became the site of the Kansas Methodist Home for Children. Libbey Hall, named after Mr. Libbey, was built in 1929. The campus also included an orchard, barns, a farmhouse, stables, granaries, cow lots, and chicken houses. Over the next three decades, a chapel and residential cottages were also built. In 1960, the Board of Trustees officially changed the agency name to United Methodist Youthville. They also approved a plan that focused on providing services to adolescent youth with emotional or social adjustment problems. That same year, Youthville took over the Bronco Buster Boys Ranch in Dodge City, Kansas.〔(Youthville activities to feature games, horses, art, exercises ), Dodge Globe, May 21, 2008〕 Youthville then planted offices across the state. In 1996, Kansas became the first state in the nation to fully privatize its adoption, foster care, and family preservation services. Youthville has maintained the state's Region 5 foster care / reintegration contract since the inception of privatization by Kansas' Social and Rehabilitation Services (Child Protection Services) in 1996. From 2001 through 2003, Youthville went through voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. In early 2007, the Wichita Branch NAACP and Youthville held the first of a series of meetings to discuss the possibilities and options available for increasing the number of extended family and/or culturally compatible placements. According to the NAACP, "Of the 356 African American children from Sedgwick County, 47% are sent outside of the county to foster homes in more rural areas of Kansas, most often not of the same cultural background. And of the 147 Bi-Racial children from Sedgwick County, 31% are sent outside of the county to foster homes in more rural areas of Kansas, most often not of the same cultural background."〔(The Wichita NAACP joins with Youthville in an effort to encourage more African American families to become foster parents ) - Wichita Branch: NAACP blog, August 30, 2007〕 The organization acquired Family Consultation Service in July 2007, which employs over 20 therapists and offers psychiatric services and medication management. In August 2008, Youthville's Trauma Recovery Center in Wichita, Kansas adopted Dr. Bruce Perry's Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics as its official clinical framework.〔(Youthville’s Partnership with Dr. Bruce Perry )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Youthville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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