Today, Mars Home for Youth (MHY) is committed to providing a sanctuary to help youth (ages 11-18)  heal and cope with psychological and social traumatic experiences. Through the implementation of Sanctuary Model for Trauma Informed Organizations*, MHY provides a safe and connected community for clients and staff to actively engage in treatment and programming that encourage healthy recovery, healing and growth for clients.

* The Sanctuary Model represents a comprehensive trauma-informed method for creating or changing an organizational culture in order to provide a cohesive context within which healing from psychological and social traumatic experience can be addressed.