Kids In BYS Residential Treatment

Butterfield's Residential Care programs currently serve up to sixty-seven (67) children (39 boys, 28 girls) daily,  in seven treatment residences. All BYS residential facilities are located in Marshall, Missouri.

Residential treatment is the service of choice for children who are at risk of injury or who present serious risk for injury or losses to others, in their family home or in other community home setting, due to their conditions of behavioral and emotional disturbance. BYS strives to help the children move successfully from residential care into family and community living, without reoccurance of their previously presenting risk conditions, and without their return to residential or hospital care.

For the purpose of evaluating service outcomes, BYS conducts follow-up inquiries and interviewing of all children completing BYS residential care. Follow-up intervals are at one month and four months after each child's discharge. In calendar year 2003, 58 children (74%) of all discharges were classed as successful program completion into community living settings, intended to be long term or permanent. By means of the four-month (120 days) follow-up, BYS found 95% of the 2003 "graduates" remained in the same stable living setting following BYS discharge, 89% were determined to be productively engaged in school or in work, 97% were rated by knowledgable authorities as having caused no injury or property loss to any person, and 88% were rated as having their original behavioral problems under control (by their previous placing authorities to BYS) which specifically had required their earlier residential placement with BYS. These are encouraging indicators indeed.

Of all children served at BYS, approximately 72% are placed by the Missouri Department of Social Services' Children's Division, as abused and neglected children in public custody. Approximately 20% of the children served are also in public custody for abuse and neglect, who are placed by a third-party managed care organization under contract with the state Department of Social Services. The remaining 8% are children placed directly by their custodial parents, with third-party insurance assistance or with Adoption Subsidy assistance. Approximately 86% of BYS operating income is received as payments for services, and the remaining 14% (over $500,000 annually) is private charitable contributions from BYS supporting family of friends.