The Residential Care Consortium

The Consortium works to assist to advance the interests of underprivileged, at-risk, and disadvantaged children, young adults, and their families. To fulfill this mission, the Consortium is dedicated to promoting residential care as a vital component of the youth care continuum through demonstration programs, outcome measurement and evaluation and dissemination of this work to the field of youth care.

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Maryhurst

Louisville, Kentucky

A journey of hope.  A gift of love.

In 1843 the Sisters of the Good Shepherd founded Maryhurst, the oldest operating child welfare agency in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Sisters provided a caring environment for girls who suffered physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as well as homelessness. Maryhurst is built on the principles of individual nurturance, appropriate structure, and professional treatment. It provides nine different programs that address the unique needs of more than 600 children and their families.

In addition to the residential programs, Maryhurst also offers neighborhood-based group homes, after-school programs, intensive in-home programs and foster-care and adoption services for both girls and boys. 

Experience, coupled with the ability to change and grow, are but two reasons why the partners of the Consortium, having successfully met the needs of children for hundreds of years, will also succeed in extending the same quality of care and service to their families.

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