Continuum of Child and Family Services

Intensive Residential Treatment Services  Helps troubled youth ages 7-18 with psychiatric disorders.  As an intensive treatment center, it is specifically designed to offer medically directed care for more seriously troubled youth who require supervision, safety and therapy but do not require inpatient psychiatric care.

Specialized Treatment Group Home Services  Provides medically directed, secure and effective treatment within a family-oriented environment for youth ages 10-18.

Intervention and Assessment Services  Located in Grand Island, Neb., provide short-term emergency residential care for assessment and crisis stabilization for abused, neglected, runaway youth or youth who have been in trouble due to delinquent activities. 

Treatment Family Services  Focuses on the treatment in a family-style setting.  Family-Teachers and Assistant Family-Teachers work on both treatment and skill building in the home, and with community and family resources in the child's life. 

In-Home Family Services  Located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, provide trained counsultants to treat families directly to improve their functioning and keep the family together. 

Foster Family Services  Provides care to youth of all ages in need of a safe, permanent placement or a path or a permanent placement.

Child and Family Support Services  Includes these services: Outpatient Child and Family Services, Boys Town National Hotline, Common Sense Parenting and Parenting.org.

Cross-Cutting Elements  To support the Boys Town continuum, certain fundamental principles, values, and services must cut across all levels of these services and programs, including: Spirituality/Religious, Medical Care, Education Services, and the careful Coordination of Care to the child and/or their family.