is a local, non-profit residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed girls. Located in a rural area north of Omaha, Nebraska, the modern cottages and treatment areas reflect our commitment to offering the newest and most effective support systems, while maintaining a wholesome, family-like atmosphere. We have been helping girls recover and rejoin productive society for over 50 years.
In 1950, the Omaha Council of Church Women established Uta Halee Girls Village, then named Uta Halee Protestant Home for Girls. This facility was dedicated to caring for troubled young women, regardless of race or religion. It consisted of a single house, half a dozen staff and ten girls.
By 1994 Uta Halee Girls Village had multiple buildings on a 30 acre campus; over 130 staff served more than 150 girls a year at the Village campus and the Therapeutic Shelter Care facility in Florence. Perhaps the biggest change was that Uta Halee had matured from a "home for girls" to Nebraska’s only residential psychiatric facility exclusively for adolescent girls.
Also in 1994, Uta Halee formed a partnership with The Omaha Home for Boys, a highly respected youth service organization that had been providing care for boys for many years. The goal of the partnership was to create Cooper Village, Nebraska’s only psychiatric residential treatment center exclusively for adolescent boys, utilizing the expertise, experience and accreditation of Uta Halee Girls Village and the physical plant and financial resources of The Omaha Home for Boys.
Currently the Uta Halee Girls Village residential continuum of care is unique to the state of Nebraska and includes three programs exclusively for adolescent girls and their families: residential psychiatric care, residential crisis stabilization and treatment group home. A fourth program within the continuum, day program, is the Village’s only nonresidential coed service. Uta Halee is accredited and certified by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations; Nebraska Department of Education; and Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.