Youth Empowerment Services (YES)

We are Youth Empowerment Services (YES), and we are dedicated to helping our youth reach their highest potential through access to a variety of community-based services and supports.  The Youth Empowerment Services Waiver is a 1915(c) Medicaid program. This waiver allows for more flexibility in the funding of intensive community-based services to assist children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances to live in the community with their families.
1. Reducing out-of-home placements and inpatient psychiatric treatment by all child-serving agencies
2. Providing a more complete continuum of community-based services and supports
3. Ensuring families have access to parent partners and other flexible non-traditional support services as identified in a family-centered planning process
4. Preventing entry into the foster care system and relinquishment of parental custody
5. Improving the clinical and functional outcomes of children and adolescents