Youth Town opens new facility for troubled teen girls
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MADISON COUNTY, Tenn.-A West Tennessee haven for troubled youth is now open for healing. Eden of Youth Town, a faith-based residential treatment facility for girls ages 12 to 17. The facility speaks to the differences between young women and young men. and the different ways they think, and cope, from an addiction to drugs or alcohol. The boy’s campus, Jericho, is located in South Madison County but both facilities, share the same goal. “They have a sense of peace while they are here they feel physically safe they feel emotionally safe and the people that we surround them with are seeking to form these healthy positive relationships with them,” said Paige Bledsoe, director of programming for Eden. Both campuses work on a 90 day program.
Eden has capacity for 12 girls. Right now, they are housing four young women.
