Partnership for Children

For children who have shown an inability to attach to appropriate care-giving adults, Youth Homes has formed a unique collaboration with Intermountain Children’s Home of Helena. The Partnership provides services to children ages 4-11 with severe emotional disturbances due to early childhood trauma. The Partnership for Children merges the tested and proven positive treatment approach that Intermountain Children’s Homes has modeled on its Helena campus with the knowledge of the local community and ability of Youth Homes to deliver sophisticated children’s group treatment homes and its own unique foster care program. This combination of care and expertise of the two partners gives the children the gifts of permanency, safety and stability throughout their entire healing process. The operation of the Partnership for Children as a non- profit agency, by the two partnering non-profit agencies is rare – but very successful.

The Partnership has two intensive Treatment Homes for six children each, ages 4-11. Treatment there lasts 12 to 18 months with the promise of family placement and permanency after successful completion of the course of treatment.

The Partnership also operates its own foster care program. The program places children out of the Treatment Homes, does the work up front to support eventual adoption, works with troubled foster placements prior to placement into a treatment facility, and can work with birthfamilies where the issues of attachment can be addressed within the family setting. The program is staffed to support a daily census of up to 24 children in placement and also to provide assessments on attachments within current placements and families.