When Yellowstone Academy’s (YA) Casper Education Center was completed in 1965, YBGR was a facility for troubled boys. Today, YBGR is an accredited youth mental health treatment center, and the boys and girls who now attend YA require a higher level of care and supervision.
The main bathrooms in Casper were designed like most school buildings with boys’ and girls’ bathrooms each having multiple stalls, allowing several individuals to use the bathroom at the same time. However, due to safety concerns, more than half of YA students must have an adult accompany them to the bathroom and wait outside, and only one youth can be in the bathroom at a time, often causing long wait times to use the bathroom.
Remodeling the Casper bathrooms would create four single-use bathroom units plus a monitoring area for staff to wait in. In addition, portable panels can be used in anyone of the bathrooms to provide some privacy for students who are on suicide watch and require an adult to be in the same room, increasing the safety of the most at-risk students attending YA.
Will you help us improve the comfort and safety of youth struggling with mental health challenges?
Consider a gift to Yellowstone Foundation in support of Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch and similar organizations that treat youth facing the damage severe trauma has had on their lives.
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