Programs
Butterfield Youth Services provides a continuum of programs for children requiring out-of-home care. BYS provides specialized treatment and educational support Services across all of the programs.
The BYS Continuum of Programs
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Foster Care : Specialized care and treatment provided in licensed community family homes. BYS recruits, trains and licenses the participating families, and all children placed in TFC homes remain eligible for all ongoing services of BYS and the BYS School.
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Day Treatment : Specialized care and treatment for children who are able to live in their own family homes. BYS transports those children daily, to and from the BYS Center and their family homes.
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Residential Care : Specialized care and treatment provided in group homes of various designs and locations within BYS.
The BYS programs are child centered and family focused. Our goal is to enable the children to develop essential skills, values and personal attributes necessary for successful family living. Those are skills and values that will serve them for the rest of their lives. Success or failure to achieve a reasonable balance of family living skills and values will greatly impact the lives of others close to them.
Child Centered
Our programs are child centered because each child is treated at BYS according to a carefully developed individual plan of services that is specific to his or her particular set of needs and experiences that have led to this placement. Multiple programs are offered at BYS, so that progressive options are available to each child's changing needs over time. For example a child may progress from a more structured residential facility at BYS to a more open, community-centered residential facility of BYS. Similarly a child may progressively move from a BYS residential facility into a therapeutic foster family home. Still another child may progress from residential care into the day treatment program. In the day treatment program the child resumes living in his/her own family home each night and weekend, and continues to benefit from the BYS program services and alternative school each weekday.
In similar manner, if a child experiences a relapse while in a BYS program, (s)he may move into a more intensive program of BYS until the crisis is resolved. With such a continuum of program offerings to serve as a safety net, the child may remain at Butterfield and avoid additional, disruptive placements. Butterfield's continuum of care is a critical factor in helping each child achieve emotional stability prior to discharge.  |
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The Programs of Butterfield youth Services are licensed in the State of Missouri and Nationally accredited by the by Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children.
Our Mission and dedication is to provide the highest quality of services for the children we serve, and to include all interested parties who can be a positive part of this effort. |
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A standardized needs assessment scale, the "Child Severity of Psychiatric Illness" (CSPI) is used by the State of Missouri, Division of Family Services, to determine that classification of "need level". The most severe need classification is "Intensive Need", or "Level IV". Level III classifies a "Severe Need", and Level II a "Moderate Need". BYS serves children at Levels III and IV in specialized Residential Treatment Homes, and serves children at Level II in Therapeutic Foster Homes and in Transported Day Treatment programs.
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Butterfield Youth Services'
Mission Statement |
| It is the mission of Butterfield Youth Services to advocate for and provide compassionate care and exemplary treatment for children and families at their place of need. |
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Butterfield Youth Services'
Vision Statement |
| Our hope is for all children to be loved, educated, confident, responsible, and emotionally prepared for tomorrow. |
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BYS is accredited nationally as a Children's Residential Treatment Center, by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children (COA) http://www.coanet.org/ | |
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