Valley Youth House recently received the Gold Seal of Transparency on GuideStar, the world’s largest source of information on nonprofit organizations. Guidestar allows millions of annual visitors to more than 200 charitable sights to view information about VYH. Achieving this accolade represents Valley Youth House’s commitment and dedication to transparency.  By reaching gold standard, this […]

Joelle Pitts, VYH Associate Director, and Kim Kitterer from Valley Youth House’s Project Silk program presented at the Bridging the Gap Conference held at Delaware Valley University. The event came from the ‘Bucks County Now is the Time: Healthy Transition Grant’ and was in partnership with the Bucks County Departments of Behavioral Health.  The event […]

Camp Fowler had a great summer with the youth for Valley Youth House’s 2017 Summer Programming. The programs consisted of week-long therapeutic camps which began on June 19th. These programs gave an opportunity for youth that is unlike any other form of therapy. Nature can be restorative as well as stress-reducing and Camp Fowler allows […]

Bill Motsavage, Executive Vice President of Programs at Valley Youth House, co-presented workshops at the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) 2017 conference. Over 2,000 service providers, government leaders, advocates and consumers attended the event in Washington DC, coming together to continue the fight to end homelessness. Motsavage led three workshops at the conference: Housing […]

Valley Youth House was honored as a beneficiary of the Philadelphia Union’s Pride Night on July 26th. The event featured a pre-game Couches Don’t Count pop up, with proceeds from ticket sales going towards Valley Youth House’s Pride Program. Patrick Cahill, VYH Board of Governors Chair, was named as the Union’s Hometown Hero before the game. […]

Margie Kelly, Valley Youth House’s Office Manager, has been given a campaign spotlight by for her work as Valley Youth House’s campaign coordinator with United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley. United Way is an organization that helps communities globally with education, health organizations, labor and more. United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, which […]

Valley Youth House staff and youth were representatives at a meeting held by the Region III Interagency Council on Homelessness, a subgroup of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH). USICH is the federal agency whose task is to combat homelessness in the United States. During this meeting the Regional Council focused on a panel […]

Robert “Woody” Wood of Valley Youth House’s street outreach program, The Synergy Project of Bucks County was  mentioned in Bucks Coalition Against Trafficking (BCAT) Stop the Traffic Summer 2017 issue. The mission of BCAT is to eradicate human trafficking in Bucks County through victim identification, community education, and enhancement of arrests and prosecution of traffickers, […]

Valley Youth House has received a grant of $10,000 from the Today, Inc. Foundation to support our Intake & Therapy Coordinator staff position in Bucks County.  The Intake & Therapy Coordinator is a master’s level clinician who works with all incoming clients in our Bucks County programs, providing services such as mental health screenings, brief […]

This year, Royal Bank was a sponsor at Valley Youth House’s Backpack Challenge event. VYH received a generous donation from Royal Bank of $1000. Royal Bank also donated pens for the closing ceremony of the event. In the picture above Christina Schoemaker, Vice President of Development and Marketing at Valley Youth House is receiving the […]