YFCS provides a full range of services:

Integrated Care, Improved Outcomes.YFCS offers an integrated approach to treatment that helps to achieve positive outcomes for patients. Our clinical philosophy centers on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), which is based on the premise that changing maladaptive thinking is the key to overcoming negative feelings and behaviors in children and adolescents. Our facilities and programs rely on coordinated interventions by multidisciplinary teams to deliver care. In addition to being guided by CBT, our teams are fully trained in therapeutic crisis intervention (TCI). Developed by Cornell University, TCI is aimed at minimizing the need to restrain or seclude children as part of treatment. TCI has helped YFCS achieve significant system-wide reductions in both restraints and seclusions. Education is an integral part of our comprehensive approach to treating abused and neglected children. We operate accredited and chartered schools for special education, and we believe that teachers have a vital part to play in children’s overall care. Teachers are part of our interdisciplinary treatment teams, bringing to the process unique and valuable information, observations, and perspectives about children’s behavior.

The Continuum Of Care. For YFCS, our continuum of care provides the opportunity for abused children and adolescents to potentially become productive adults.

Finally, we believe that the true measure of what we do is in the outcomes we achieve for the children. Since the company’s founding in 1997, we have achieved thousands of successful treatment completions, as evidenced by discharges to lower levels of care, higher educational testing scores, and improved clinical results. Collecting outcomes data and using it to improve what we do is of paramount importance to us, and we participate fully in JCAHO initiatives for evaluating performance based on outcomes.

Proud Recipient Of The Ernest A. Codman Award YFCS’ approach to care was recently recognized with a national award. Millcreek, a YFCS facility in Magee, Mississippi, recently received the Ernest A. Codman Award from The Joint Commission. Named for the physician who is widely recognized as a pioneering leader in the field of outcomes measurement, the Codman award recognizes organizations who have used performance measures to improve quality of care and enhance knowledge, and whose work encourages others to use effective measurement to achieve improvements in quality. We are honored to have been accorded this recognition.