Services
Boys Town Central Florida Services
Boys Town has been dedicated to saving children and healing families for over 100 years. Boys Town Central Florida offers a variety of services based on the research-proven Boys Town Model.
Children and parents can tap into a wide variety of resources to learn how to help themselves through advice from our experts or receive direct care through specialized services. Most resources focus on prevention rather than intervention. If you’d like to learn more about any of the below programs, please contact our main office at 407-588-2170.
Intervention and Assessment
Offers a short-term crisis shelter for up to 12 at-risk boys and girls ages 9 to 18, providing a safe environment for rehabilitative care and helping transition them into a healthier version of themselves. This program focuses on immediate, skill-based learning to assist youth in finding self-stabilizing tools for their daily lives. To learn more, please call 407-588-2160.
Family Home Program
Boy Town Central Florida provides long-term, on-site foster-family housing under the Boys Town Model of Care, optimizing life-long success for at-risk boys and girls ages 9 to 17 years old. There are 5 residential homes on the Boys Town Central Florida Campus, housing up to 6 youth per home. To learn more, please call 407-588-2170.
In-Home Family Services
Provides individualized coaching to children and parents within their own homes to overcome challenges and systemic problems before they escalate into family crises.
Behavioral Health Clinic
Delivers individual therapy, family therapy, and psychological evaluations for children and young adults (up to age 22). Services address a wide range of conditions, including ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, school difficulties, emotional issues, noncompliance and relationship concerns.
Common Sense Parenting
Coaching and reeducating parents to help them find new skills and positive ways to build on their parenting strengths and develop healthy relationships with their children.
Lift with Boys Town
Supports families through schools by helping educators effectively address behavioral problems, fostering healthy student growth and maturity.
Community Support and Resources
The Boys Town National Hotline® (800-448-3000) is a free resource and counseling service that assists youth and parents 24/7, year-round, nationwide.
Parenting Support We've learned a lot about caring for children and families over the past 100 years. All that knowledge has been adapted and made available to all parents online.
Boys Town Press® produces books, audio products, DVDs, display materials and other resources to assist children, parents, caregivers, educators and other professionals.
YourLifeYourVoice.org is a special website that enables and encourages teens to share their problems and concerns in positive ways and provides access to immediate help in a crisis.
Lift with Boys Town provides a variety of training and instruction resources for teachers, administrators and other school staff that can support or enhance an educational environment. Training programs are based on the Boys Town Education Model®, which focuses on skills teaching, relationship building and effective discipline procedures.