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Day In the Life

Youth Villages' mission is to help children and families live successfully. Spend a day with family counselor Alicia Cobb as she works with her team to help make a difference in one family.

After watching the video, follow the links below to share "a day in the life" of other Youth Villages staff in photo gallery form.

	Intensive In-Home Services -- Gretchen Gretchen joined the Youth Villages Intensive In-Home Services program a little more than one year ago. Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, Gretchen and her husband, a police officer, wanted to move to a different area of the country after getting married. Gretchen favored Tennessee, which she fell in love with while earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and the couple settled on Nashville. Gretchen had already worked a counseling job similar to the family counselor role, and she was hired by Youth Villages before she and her husband relocated to Nashville. Click through the slide show to see what a day as a family counselor looks like for Gretchen and what she loves about her job and the children and families she works with. (read more)

	Foster care -- LaTava LaTava, a foster care counselor in the Therapeutic Foster Care Program in Memphis, began her career at Youth Villages on our Bartlett Campus. The social work major from Mississippi started out as an overnight teacher-counselor for a cottage of girls. Though she loved helping the teenage girls, her passion was working in foster care. After getting her feet wet in residential, she eventually moved to our foster care program. Click through the slide show to follow LaTava for a day and to see why she loves working as a foster care counselor. (read more)

	Residential Treatment - Brent Brent Doyle came to Youth Villages after finishing his bachelor's degree in pyschology. Since starting as an overnight teacher-counselor at the Youth Villages Bartlett Campus, Brent has had the chance to work with kids with a wide variety of emotional and behavioral problems, as well as learning disabilities. Many of the boys he has helped in his cottage have suffered extensive abuse -- physical, emotional and sexual -- have been neglected by their families and are aggressive, defiant, have mood disorders, suffer from depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. Many of the young people Youth Villages helps have low IQs and are academically far behind other children of the same age. Many more children and teens at Youth Villages have never had their emotional and physical needs met. For Brent, working with these children is a challenge he finds rewarding. Click through the slide show and follow Brent for an afternoon to learn more about what it's like working on a residential campus. (read more)