IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Our vision at Millie’s Youth Services (MYS) is to continue to provide a safe and growing environment for young girls who are unable to be with their families or live independently.

MYS’ mission is to successfully implement the new STRTP model, to further enhance our service and enrichment activities in the areas of academic support, personal development, mental health, self-esteem building, healthy decision making and conflict resolution, and making positive health choices. While maintaining a nurturing and safe residential therapeutic environment, MYS will provide the services that meet the specialized needs of each young girl and their families. We will use the STRTP model to provide a continuum of services that are trauma informed, culturally relevant and age/developmentally appropriate through coordinated management and collaborations among our staff, professional, and organizations who practice like visions and missions.

MYS’ purpose is to achieve a successful outcome for each young girl’s treatment plan and designated goals, while assisting and guiding her to develop the skills and self-esteem which will enable her to become a self-sufficient and productive individual.

MYS’ method will be to provide supervised 24-hour residential care and treatment to at-risk Youth, in a structured therapeutic environment utilizing licensed professional, trained staff, and community resources, e.g., educational institutions, churches, local agencies, and recreational facilities. MYS will utilize a therapeutic residential environment, where at-risk Youth and their families can address issues adversely affecting their relationship(s), reunification, and increasing the potential for independence and success.

Specifically, MYS will utilize a broad range of promising and effective practice models in working with specialized populations, including Youth experiencing trauma and complex trauma; also, the specific types of trauma experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, queers, questioning, transgender, sexually exploited Youth and NMD are addressed at MYS. In fact, special attention is to at-risk Youth’s

emotional needs; providing empathy, support, encouragement, adult mentoring, therapy, and psychiatric care if necessary

•  physical and psychosocial needs, including behavior management and de-escalation techniques

•  trauma exposure measures, PTSD, crisis management planning, including the use of emergency interventions;

•  stress level / effects of trauma, including grief and loss, and child abuse and neglect on child development

•  response to traumatic experiences or child abuse and neglect, including behavior and response to methods intended to behaviorally modify conduct

•  awareness and identification of commercial sexual exploitation, 

•  employing best practices for providing care and supervision to commercially sexually exploited children.

MYS’s primary goal is to create and maintain a short-term healthy and respectful residential environment, with mental sheath services, that improves at-risk Youth’s behavior so they may become eligible to obtain a less restrictive living or permanent home environment - through reunification with their families, transfer to a foster care home, or transition to an independent living arrangement.

Our continuing goal will also be to provide professional treatment to at-risk Youth, ages 12 to 18, whose social or developmental issues and/or family situations prevent them from living in a less restrictive setting.

·  MYS STRTP will accept Female Youth of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and gender identities who require intensive residential treatment to help recognize, synthesize and stabilize high risk behavior.

·  MYS STRTP will accept and has successful experience working with Youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, flexisexual, intersexual gender expanding, queer, questioning, or transgender, and, will accept NMD age eighteen (18) requiring a safe and supportive environment that provides intensive residential care.

·  MYS STRTP will accept and has extensive experience working with and advocating for commercially sexuallyexploited children (CSEC).

·  MYS STRTP will provide a highly structured treatment environment designed to support Youth whose needscannot be met in a less structured setting. MYS’s goal is to help prepare its clients for transition to and functional living experiences in a natural setting.

·  Behaviors of Youth accepted by the program include, but are not limited to:

·  aggressive and/or assaultive behaviors;

·  drug and alcohol use offenders;

·   property destruction;

·  suicidal and self-harm behaviors; and,

·   Sexualized behavior, e.g., sexually abused.

·  MYS STRTP will accept a wide range of youths with mental health and medical conditions, provided the program is able to meet the severity of their needs.

·  MYS STRTP will accept youth and NMD with mild to moderate developmental, mental and physical disabilities.

Millies Youth Services was started in 2000, where we obtained our Non profit 501C3 status and opened a 6 bed Group Home for Girls 12 - 18 years old.  We have since transitioned to what is now a Short Term Residential Therapeutic Program (STRTP).  Where our focus is on Trauma and how to effectively and successfully address it with the youth we serve.  

MYS contracted with Alameda County Medi-cal to bill for the Mental Health Services we provide, and are Certified through the State of California as a Mental Health Program, as well as being a fully Accredited Organization, through CARF international.  We are proud to partner with a variety of organizations and businesses to support our community. Our partnerships enable us to expand our reach and provide even more resources and services to those in need. MYS proud partners with Alameda County Behavioral health (ACBH). CARF International, California Department of Health and Children's Services, Community Care and Licensing, LaFamilia Agency, Misssy Inc., Seneca Family of Agencies, and numerous county Social Service Agencies throughout the Bay Area.

At Millie's, our strength lies in the incredible women whom most have been with us since the very beginning. We are proud to have a dedicated team of long-standing, trauma-informed professionals—clinicians, credentialed staff, and compassionate caregivers—who bring both expertise and heart to everything they do. Their commitment to providing exceptional care, patience, and understanding creates a safe, nurturing environment where our girls can truly heal and thrive. It's this unwavering dedication that makes Millie’s more than just a program—it makes us a family.