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About Our Services
Shelter Care
When families are in conflict, it is the children who often become homeless. Youth Homes offers shelter and attention to kids who are on the street because of family conflict, abuse, or because the children are acting out as a result of the conflict or abuse. In response to a community effort to change the way we respond to runaway youth, we established our first Attention Home in 1976. Today we have three Attention Homes in Missoula, Kalispell and Hamilton. We provide them a safe, stable and home-like environment where they can rejoin the community and perhaps reunite with their families. The outcome is kids being safer, crisis resolution and a plan that may better meet their long-term needs for stability and relationship. By giving attention to kids who act out, we can help them to express healthy and appropriate emotions and increase their self-esteem.
Our shelters are all seven to eight-bed homes with counselors in the home working directly with the youngsters. The homes are located in neighborhood settings. The three homes serve a daily census of up to 23 youngsters. All serve young people ages 11 to 18.
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