New Zealand
Youth Horizons
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About Youth Horizons
Youth Horizons' mission is to provide evidence-based and bi-culturally focused programmes that create better futures for rangatahi who are impacted by conduct problems.
We are a national charitable trust working to improve the lives of children and young people who are dealing with behavioural, emotional, mental health or development issues. We have over 250 staff and caregivers supporting young people and their families and whanau across the North and lower South Islands.
Our story
Youth Horizons began in 1997 when two child and adolescent psychiatrists, Dr Peter McGeorge and Professor John Werry, along with educational psychologist Tom Guild, were invited by the then Department of Social Welfare (now Oranga Tamariki) to design a treatment programme for young people diagnosed with Severe Conduct Disorder.
Today we deliver proven programmes that meet the needs of young people from different backgrounds and focus on therapy in the home, parenting support, bringing families back together, and foster care and group home placements.
Our values
Youth Horizons is committed to the continuous development of an effective bi-cultural approach to treatment and service delivery. To ensure this is achieved, our values and kaupapa are integrated throughout our organisation with all services committed to professional practice that reflects our core values of aroha, whanaungatanga, wairuatanga and manaakitanga.
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