Libertyville student interns at Youth Villages in Bartlett

Submitted by Youth Villages

Samantha Jeanne Travers of Libertyville spent her summer interning at Youth Villages, a private nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children and families live successfully.

Youth Villages provides a variety of programs to help children who may have suffered abuse or neglect, or who may have emotional and behavioral issues. Travers interned at Youth Villages’ Bartlett Campus, helping children in residential treatment learn more positive behavior patterns and deal with past trauma.

Travers, a senior at Illinois State University, is majoring in sociology with a minor in psychology. She is a leader for Young Life and Wyldlife and received the 2009 Rotary Youth Leadership Award. Travers plans to become a school counselor.

Headquartered in Memphis, Youth Villages this year will help more than 20,000 children and families in 11 states and Washington, D.C., through an array of programs, including intensive in-home services, residential treatment, foster care and adoption, transitional living services, mentoring and crisis services.

Youth Villages’ focus on strengthening families consistently produces an 80 percent success rate of children living successfully at home or in a homelike setting two years after completing a Youth Villages program.

Named one of the Top 50 Nonprofits to Work For by Nonprofit Times and Best Companies Group in 2010 and 2011, Youth Villages has been recognized by Harvard Business School and U.S. News & World Report, and recently was identified by The White House as one of the nation’s most promising results-oriented nonprofit organizations.

For more information about Youth Villages, visit www.youthvillages.org.

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