On April 1, 2011 Acadia acquired Youth and Family Centered Services, Inc. (YFCS), the largest private, for-profit provider of behavioral health, education and long-term support services exclusively for abused and neglected children and adolescents. At acquisition YFCS operated 13 facilities in eight states. Its services include residential treatment care, community-based services, acute care, specialized education services, therapeutic group homes, therapeutic foster care, and medical and behavioral services. The YFCS purchase was the platform deal that Acadia built its public company around, completed roughly seven months before the PHC reverse merger took Acadia public.
- 01 Largest for-profit operator in its niche
- 02 with a multi-state
- 03 multi-modality footprint that became Acadia's operating core
On April 1, 2011, we acquired Youth and Family Centered Services, Inc. (“YFCS”), the largest private, for-profit provider of behavioral health, education and long term support services exclusively for abused and neglected children and adolescents.