| Youth Dynamics Inc.,
has been helping build healthy families and shape strong children
for over 25 years.
The organization, designed to help youth with behavioral
problems as well as their families, has expanded its services
throughout the years to have Youth Case Management, Therapeutic
Foster Care, Family Support Teams, foster parenting, and more.
All of the services have a part in accomplishing this non-profit
orgnization's goals to provide effective and involved behavioral
health services.
"Ultimately, our goal is to help a child to learn,
and do what they need to do to maintain in the household,"
said Area/FSA Coordinator Angie Lohrke.
Lohrke also realizes how important the parents are to the
success of a Youth Dynamics Program. She said parents have
the role of working to implement the behavioral treatment
program into a child's life and also developing goals for
the future.
"They're hugely important," she said.
A motto of Youth Dynamics is, "Every child deserves
a family." Lohrke stressed the importance of having a
strong, secure family unit because of the influence it has
on the rest of a child's life.
"If home is good, usually everywhere else is good, too,"
she said.
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Youth Dynamics is in Miles City
and in many locations across Montana to offer treatment, and
although a program might only last for a brief period in a
person's life, the results are meant to carry on for a lifetime.
"We know that we've planted a seed," Lohrke said.
Often times a patient will reflect on the treatment they received
earlier in life, Lohrke said, and realize the impact it had
on making them a better person.
Youth Dynamics Inc., has service locations in Miles City,
Glasgow, Glendive, Butte, Livingston, Great Falls, Helena,
Lame Deer, Sidney, Boulder and Wolf Point. Wherever the location
is, Youth Dynamics has the same philosophy.
"The greatest resource we have is our families and
communities we serve,” Executive Director Peter Degel
said in a press release. "We believe that every child
deserves a family, and in keeping families together. Because
this philosophy is at the very core of our organization, YDI
has become the premier Montana provider of behavior health
services for children and families."
Those in need of services locally can call Lohrke at the
Miles City office at 232-4233. The address is 201 S. Seventh
St.
Youth Dynamics is licensed as a mental health center, child
placing agency, therapeutic youth group home, youth shelter
care and youth group home, according to the press release.
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