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What we do

Provide productive life skill development services to children, adolescents, and  families currently unable to thrive in their homes and/or community.

How we do it

Residential Youth Unlimited’s Residential Program has both Mental Health and DSS licensed homes. Our programs focus on reducing behaviors that make residential treatment necessary “more…”

Therapeutic & Family Foster Care Youth Unlimited’s Foster Care Program provides both therapeutic and traditional foster care for children from birth to age 18. Because a foster family serves as a temporary home for a child who is unable to live within his or her own family, “more…”

Intensive In-Home Services Intensive In-Home Services are clinically oriented, short-term therapy services provided to the child and family in their home. The Intensive In-Home Services team “more…”

Outpatient Counseling Services Youth Unlimited provides individual and family outpatient counseling. Licensed Professional Counselors, “more…”

Morrow Office Our Morrow office houses our Intensive In-Home Services Program, Outpatient Counseling Program, Phychiatric/Behavior Health Medication Management Clinic, and Comprehensive Clinical Assessment Services. It is located “more…”

Staff & Board

Youth Unlimited’s staff are experienced, well-trained and professional. A board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, qualified professionals, and residential counselors are among our staff’s qualifications.


Frank Mullins

Director of Clinical Operations

Frank Earned a Master’s Degree from Liberty University and is Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor.  During his sixteen years at Youth Unlimited he has served as a residential coordinator, therapist, and the director of Intensive In-home Services.


Kelly Foster Blackwell

Kelly earned a Bachelor’s degree from Salem College and course work in Social Work from Walden University.  She has nine years of experience working in the area of human services and is presently serving as our Foster Care Case Manager


Laura Johnson

Laura earned a Bachelor of Social Work Degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  She was hired in 2012 as a residential counselor and currently serves as the Smith Home Director.


Cliff Parker

Executive Director

Cliff has a BS in psychology, a MA in counseling, and has been Licensed Professional Counselor since 1991.  He previously worked as a inpatient program director and has been a divisional vice president for a hospital specialty company.  He and his wife also served as houseparent for Youth Unlimited from 1982-1985.  Cliff also conducts the PCIT program at the Morrow Office in Sophia, NC.


Vivian Thomas

Administrative Assistant

Vivian started at Youth Unlimited in 1968 as a volunteer at our first program – a storefront ministry in downtown High Point.  She was hired in 1974 to assist her late husband, former Executive Director Larry Thomas, in opening the Slane Home for boys where she worked as a houseparent.  She currently serves as the Administrative Assistant in the High Point Office.


Mary E. Froelich, MD

Medical Director

Dr. Froelich is a licensed psychiatrist who provides clinical / medical supervision of Youth Unlimited’s programs and services.


Matt Faulkner

Residential Program Director

Matt earned his degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and has over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents and their families.  Matt started at Youth Unlimited as the House Director of the Slane Home.  He is currently the Residential Program Director for our Level III homes.


Hannah Lundy

Hannah earned a Master’s Degree of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro / North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.  She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker – Associate.  Hannah works as an Outpatient Therapist and in the Intensive In-Home program.


Kristen Sealey

Kristen earned a Master’s of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Capella University.  She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor – Associate and works as an Outpatient Therapist.

Board of Directors:

Chairman – Mr. Jorge Mata

Vice Chairman – Rev. Jonathan Lewis

Secretary – Mr. Jonathan Thomas

Treasurer – Ms. Becky F. Wray

Executive Director – Mr. Cliff Parker

Board Member – Mr. Barry Sikes

Board Member – Mr. Herman Hunter, Jr.

Board Member – Ms. Sarah Hunter

Board Member – Mr. Lamar Boykin

Board Member – Ms. Jennifer Boyles

Board Member – Mr. Brad Wallace

Year In Review

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The year 2021/2022 marks Youth Unlimited’s fifty-fourth year of service to the area’s children and families. It is also the third year of our agency’s integration of ARC training which continues to be highly successful. ARC, an icon for Attachment, Self Regulation, and Competency, is a Trauma Informed Therapeutic approach utilized in our programs for the community’s children and families.

• Intensive In-Home Services – Staff are being trained in Trauma Focused – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Our Intensive Therapist, Hannah Lundy, is receiving this training. This service is provided in the Sophia Office.

• Outpatient Therapy – We have a new therapist in our High Point Office, Kristen Sealey, who is providing services to children and adolescents ages 7 to 19.

• Slane and Hayworth Level III Homes – which offer residential treatment for adolescents, are providing our residents the opportunity to succeed in school. All academic grades are improving to average or above and behavior grades from unsatisfactory to satisfactory.

• The Millis and Smith Homes – continue caring for younger children who have been removed from their homes. Although the emphasis is on keeping siblings together, all age appropriate children are considered. The staff utilizes the Trauma Informed Therapeutic approach to create an environment which minimizes the effects of leaving home. Children remain in these programs until a permanent placement can be arranged.

• Our Foster Care Program – has a new director. Kelley Foster Blackwell has begun serving in that position and is enthusiastically working toward strategies to expand that program’s outreach and recruit new families.

Program Outcomes

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    Foster Care 

  • At discharge 80% of grades were A’s, B’s & C’s
  • 64% of the children were discharge to a permanent placement 
  • 67% reached all their treatment goals at discharge 

    Residential Care

  • 88% had satisfactory behavior grades at discharge
  • 63% were discharged to a lower level of care
  • 100% had no academic failing grades at discharge 

    Outpatient Therapy   

  • 20% increase in number of visits over last year  
  • 100% client responses were favorable

    Intensive In-Home Services  

  • 60% remained in their home
  • 88% client responses were favorable
  • 47% reached at least 75% of their treatment goals

Surveys

    Employee Satisfaction

  • 96% employee responses were positive

    Client/Family Satisfaction

  • 90% positive client/family responses across all programs

    Community Partners Satisfaction 

  • 100% positive responses from community partners