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Booth Memorial Home
 Booth Memorial Youth
& Family Services
3600 E. 20th Ave. Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 279-0522
Click here to contact us via e-mail
Spotlight
Opened as a home for unwed mothers in 1965, Booth Memorial Youth & Family Services has evolved into a comprehensive, service provider for young women and families. At Booth, we understand that a sense of personal power that allows the individual to be free to make choices is the first step in constructing a sense of responsibility and direction for their lives.
Our services include:
- Residential Treatment Program
- Emergency Stabilization Center
- Family Reunification Program
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Project
- Community Education
- Outpatient and Aftercare Substance Abuse Program
 Residential Treatment Program:
The Salvation Army Booth Memorial Home serves emotionally and behaviorally disordered adolescent girls, age 12-18, and their families.
Booth Memorial programs provide twenty-four (24) hour basic care and supervision for young women who have a demonstrated need for treatment in a highly structured and supervised environment. Referrals for program placement must originate from the Office of Children's Services. Booth Memorial offers a planned program of:
- Stabilization and needs assessment
- Individualized treatment planning and case management services
- On-Site Educational Program
- Nutritious meals, hygiene needs, shower, clothes
- Individual and group counseling
- Extensive networking with community agencies, local and statewide
- Family mediation
- Life skills training
- Substance abuse assessment, education and treatment
- Pregnancy & parenting education and support
- Medication evaluation and monitoring
- Aftercare
Emergency Stabilization Center:
To address the need for accessible community-based emergency placement services for teenage girls, The Salvation Army opened the Booth Memorial Crisis Stabilization Center in August 2003.
Emergency Stabilization and Crisis Intervention services are provided with a multi-faceted approach to working with young women 12 – 18 years of age.
In the Emergency Stabilization Center, Booth provides short-term shelter to teenage girls. Beds are available on a first come, first serve basis every night.
- Bed Capacity: 6 beds
- Length of stay: up to 60 days
Family Reunification Program:
Through education and supervised visitation, the Booth Family Reunification Program works to reduce and prevent child abuse in order to reunite children in out-of-home placements with their custodial parents. Referrals to this program are received through the Office of Children’s Services and the Alaska Court System.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Project:
Operating with a grant from the Office of FAS, The Salvation Army FAS Program offers a community-based educational outreach program. Activities include presentations to Anchorage School District 8th grade students as part of their standard health education curriculum and classes for high-risk women at several residential facilities in the Anchorage area. A professionally certified FASD Educator staffs the program. To schedule educational presentations or staff training sessions, please contact us.
 Community Education
Booth Youth and Family Services also offers childbirth education and parenting classes that are open to the community. All classes are offered on a sliding fee scale. Contact us for a current schedule.
Booth Outpatient and Aftercare Substance Abuse Program:
Funded by the State of Alaska Division of Behavioral Health, Booth provides outpatient and aftercare substance abuse services for adolescents in the residential and emergency stabilization programs.
On-going Donation Needs:
- Bedroom lamps and radios, throw pillows, towels, washcloths
- Educational computer programs: school and arts/crafts supplies
- Journals, pens and stencils
- Yarn, crochet needles and fabric for sewing classes
- Exercise and sports equipment, snowshoes, soccer nets
- Gloves, ice skates, rollerblades
- Gift certificates for movies, music, books, fast food
- Toys appropriate for preschoolers
- Volunteer Mentors
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