Director of Admissions
Tanya May
Admissions Email
Admissions Phone
Physical Address
12595 Minuteman Drive
Draper,
UT

Youth Care has been helping adolescents between the ages of 11 and 18 years old for 30 plus years through a unique combination of individualized treatment and comprehensive therapeutic care in a comfortable, home-like living environment.
Our clinical intensive therapeutic structure is ideal for youth who are struggling with addiction, behavioral, and/or mental health issues including:
- ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Adoption/Attachment
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Depression
- High-functioning Autism
- OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
- ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder)
- RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder)
- Schizophrenia
- Self-Harm
- Suicidal Ideation
- Trauma & PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Alcohol & Drug Abuse
Our students receive over 20 hours per week of licensed therapeutic services that include:
- Daily group therapy sessions
- 3 individual therapy sessions per week, including process groups, recreational therapy groups, music therapy, pet therapy, therapeutic yoga, DBT skills group
- 1 family therapy session each week
- Weekly session with the psychiatrist
- Extensive recreational therapy options
The amount of therapy that we offer our students helps us provide "in network" insurance coverage with all major insurance companies including Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Cigna, United Behavioral Health, and Value Options. This helps us ensure that our students are covered throughout their entire stay at Youth Care and can receive the full time support and guidance that they need for a successful recovery.




General Information
Corporate Or Public Company
Privately Owned
Youth Care
Residential Treatment
No
11 - 17
Yes
No
4 Months
64
Suburban
Single Rooms with Private Baths
Doubles
Triples
Quads
Staff Secured
No
HIGH: Family Expected on weekly calls (or more) & to attend all family workshops (weekly , monthly or quarterly)
0%
0%
30%
25%
0%
Insurance
No
Full Time Staff Member
Yes
Therapy - Individual
Yes, part of the program cost
3 Hours
3
All therapists are licensed by the state of operation
6 Clients
Yes
Therapy - Group
Yes
10 Hours
5 Hours
1 Hours
Yes
Additional Professionals & Medical Rule Outs
> 50%
Active eating disorders, active seizure disorders
Yes
Yes
Treatment Modalities
Yes
Call For More Information
No
Art
Breathing Techniques / Breath Work
Meditation
Yoga
Yes
Staff
1:4
Yes
Yes
High School Diploma
56 Hours
Academic
5 - 12
Call for more Information
1:14
Traditional teacher-led class
Teachers support blended learning
Yes
Yes
Year Round School (either quarters, trimester, semesters)
Yes
Call For More Information
Tests
Yes
Transition Programming
Yes
we have a day treatment program and an Individual Care Visit program where our students go off site with staff during evenings and weekends.
Yes
< 50%
Accreditation
Nuts & Bolts
Yes
< $1000.00
No
Call for more information
Salt Lake City [SLC]
0.5 Hours
> 50%
No
Yes
We are currently participating in Outcome tools
Elopement
Infectious Disease
Major Injury | Death
Pregnancy
Restraint
Runaways
2 Hours
Mission Statement
At Youth Care, we provide adolescents ages 11 through 18 with a clinically intensive program in a home-like setting where every interaction provides therapeutic value for the road to recovery.