Youth Villages Memphis

The Bartlett campus of Youth Villages has operated since 1986 and runs as a residential setting for young people who need structured care. Its grounds cover 82 acres of quiet, tree-filled property in Memphis, and the living arrangements are split into separate cottage-style residences so that residents are grouped by gender, age, and diagnosis or level of functioning.

Day-to-day life inside a cottage centers on shared routines rather than isolation. Residents live together, go to school on campus, eat meals as a group, and fill their days with organized activities. The program describes its approach as a balance between guidance and personal freedom, with treatment services layered into the residential schedule. This Memphis center offers gender-specific cottages that group young people by age and diagnosis.

In addition to its residential rehab track, the center provides mental health needs alongside substance use. Young people who come with both emotional health concerns and substance use concerns receive treatment through a coordinated plan that addresses both, rather than referring one issue to a separate provider.

The campus has its own school on site, where a counselor with a master’s degree oversees evaluation and teaching, and residents are watched over at all hours. Since the program holds a licensed primary mental health specialization, a relative should find out early whether this kind of care fits what the young person requires, and make plans from there.

Programs at Youth Villages Memphis

The two care options at Youth Villages Memphis are residential rehab and co-occurring mental health, offered through approaches that are gender-specific, personalized, and based in a therapeutic community. Counseling one-on-one, group therapy, psychoeducation, and recreation therapy are all part of treatment. The alcohol and drug treatment offered here follows a therapeutic community model with a peer structure. In practice, that means each young person's plan reflects their own history and needs, using gender-specific grouping and a structured peer setting.

Care offered on site covers anger, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, grief and loss, ptsd plus personality disorders and ocd, and schizophrenia. For substances in particular, services include alcohol, drug addiction, and co-occurring disorders. Dual diagnosis treatment in Tennessee at this Memphis campus pairs mental health care with care for substance use. When a young person has both a mental health diagnosis and a substance use concern, the plan is built to treat them together rather than in sequence. Left untreated, a mental health condition often means that addressing the substance use alone falls short, so ask how the two plans are combined.

• Psychoeducation
• Gender-Specific
• 1-on-1 Counseling
• Recreation Therapy
• Personalized Treatment
• Group Therapy
• Therapeutic Community

Who the youth program is built for

• Adolescents who need residential structure rather than weekly outpatient visits
• Boys and girls, housed in separate cottages by gender, age, and diagnosis
• Children and younger teens whose needs fit a licensed primary mental health setting
• Teens with a substance use disorder as well as a mental health diagnosis
• Residents who need an on-campus school program with individualized instruction
• Youth with intellectual disabilities or sexually problematic behaviors, who receive support designed for those needs

youth villages Memphis setting

A standard program lasts 30 days although the team can talk through an individual situation when you call. The campus covers 82 acres of wooded land with access to nature, and residents share rooms inside cottage-style houses. Families weighing residential rehabs in Tennessee can ask how the 30-day stay gets planned. Services are provided in English. If you want a look at the grounds before deciding whether to visit, four photos are available. When a stay is set for 30 days, aftercare planning should begin well before discharge, so ask who is responsible for it.

Paying for care and insurance in Memphis

This page publishes no payment options, and costs depend on the level of care and the length of the stay. Before admission, ask which insurance plans this Memphis center accepts for residential care. If you are considering a Tennessee residential rehab for a young person, call and ask which plans are accepted, whether state Medicaid is billed at this level of care, and what the family share would come to. Your plan can only confirm coverage for a residential stay once the center verifies benefits, so ask for that in writing before admission. Should coverage remain unclear, request the answer in writing before you agree to any start date.

Questions worth posing before admission

• Which insurance plans and Medicaid coverage does the center accept for residential care, and what will the family pay?
• How are roommates and cottage assignments decided, and can siblings be placed together or apart?
• How is a usual day structured, with school time, therapy sessions, and recreation?
• How does the team coordinate substance use treatment with mental health care for a dual diagnosis?
• What family contact, visiting, and aftercare planning are offered during and after the 30-day stay?
• How quickly can a bed be confirmed, and what happens if the young person needs a different level of care?