The new Ember Recovery Campus will offer a residential addiction treatment program, crisis stabilization and crisis recovery services. A central Iowa nonprofit will open a new addiction treatment ...

Better mental health services are on the way for Iowa's youngest as YSS, a youth nonprofit, announced its new youth recovery campus, called Ember, on Tuesday.The 50-acre campus will be near Cambridge, ...

MAINTAINING ALL SORTS OF RELATIONSHIPS. A NEW PROGRAM AIMED AT MAKING SURE YOUNG ADULTS AT RISK OF EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS SUCCEED HAS PLANTED ITS ROOTS HERE IN DES MOINES. IT’S RUN BY NONPROFIT ...

YSS broke ground Tuesday on its Ember Recovery Campus near Cambridge, an event that “marks one of the most significant days in YSS’s 46-year history,” the organization’s CEO and president, Andrew ...

An Iowa nonprofit that offers social services to youth statewide will open an addiction treatment facility near Ames next month. Youth and Shelter Services, known as YSS, will run a residential ...

Our ideal client is an adolescent (ages 12-18) struggling with substance use disorder. Our residential treatment program is voluntary, which means they come to YSS because they want to make a change.

LaRae Bennett never considered himself a farmer, but a new program teaching him how to grow vegetables is giving him the chance to plant the seeds for his future. "I'm excited," said Bennett, one of ...

The partnership between YSS and an Iowa State landscape architecture professor started with a donation. YSS CEO Andrew Allen noticed a generous donation from a name he didn't recognize as he wrote ...

An annual central Iowa fundraiser benefiting the local homeless population is turning 20. Reggie's Sleepout is named in honor of Reggie Kelsey, a young man who passed away in 2001 after experiencing ...