If previous years taught us anything, it’s to prioritize our wellbeing and take care of ourselves through difficult times. Each year brings new stressors and challenges, but being able to take a look at your health and make changes that promote...
Midwest Center for Youth and Families
Meet MCYF’s new Director of Clinical Services!
Valerie Rowe, MS, LMHC, DBT-Linehan Board of Certification, Certified Clinician. Valerie has been with Midwest Center for 13 years. Valerie started as a behavioral health worker in 2011 with South Shore Academy. She advanced to Program Coordinator...
No waitlist at Midwest Center for Youth and Families!
What does a typical patient look like at Midwest Center? Midwest Center works with suicidal ideations, behavioral or psychiatric challenges that impact the youth's functioning at home, in school, and within the community. Most patients that come to...
Midwest Center for Youth and Families supports, treats adolescents and teens from military families
Since 1996, Midwest Center for Youth and Families (MCYF) has been committed to helping teens living with complex mental illnesses lead productive and fulfilling lives. Foremost among the therapeutic methods employed by MCYF is full immersion...
A closer look at therapy options offered by Midwest Center for Youth and Families
Midwest Center for Youth and Families provides young people living with complex mental illnesses the support and care they need to thrive and lead fulfilling lives. Midwest Center’s secure residential facility in Kouts caters to males aged 12 to 18...
You can help save a young life
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for teens and young adults in the United States. Approximately one in five children and youths experience a serious mental health concern yet only 20% of them receive help.THE GOOD NEWSIn 2022, the suicide...
How Midwest Center for Youth and Families’ full-immersion dialectical behavioral therapy helps struggling youths
Midwest Center for Youth and Families is a critical resource for children and adolescents with complex mental illnesses, offering residential treatment designed to help those with bipolar disorder, borderline features, depression, severe ADHD,...
Adolescent Suicide Prevention: You can help save a young life
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for teens and young adults in the United States. Approximately one in five children and youths experience a serious mental health concern associated with trauma, social isolation or bullying, yet only 20%...
Midwest Center’s Carmen Gober finds home advocating for patient care, education, and fun
As a mental health facility treating some of Indiana’s most vulnerable, Midwest Center for Youth & Families in Kouts has a consistently positive impact on the Region as a whole. It wouldn’t be nearly as effective, however, if it...
Midwest Center for Youth & Families drives initiative for Patriot Support Program
On Thursday afternoon, the Midwest Center for Youth & Families hosted its Patriot Support Program Celebration. People from all over the Region gathered to commemorate the value of this special day. Midwest Center for Youth & Families...