{"id":82005,"date":"2020-06-02T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-roy-maas-youth-alternatives-rmya-achieves-national-coa-accreditation\/"},"modified":"2020-06-02T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T02:18:02","slug":"roy-maas-youth-alternatives-rmya-alcanza-la-acreditacion-coa-nacional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/roy-maas-youth-alternatives-rmya-alcanza-la-acreditacion-coa-nacional\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA) Achieves National COA Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN ANTONIO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<b>Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA) <\/b>has achieved national accreditation through the <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>-based Council on Accreditation (COA). Since 1976, the <span class=\"xn-location\">San Antonio, TX<\/span> based RMYA programs have served over 83,000 abused, neglected, and high-risk youth and families through residential and counseling services. Youth in RMYA programs receive expert therapeutic intervention and specialized educational instruction\u00a0through a continuum of care from birth to age 24. RMYA programs include two specialized emergency shelters, a long-term residential campus, a transitional living program for youth who have aged out of foster care and homeless youth, a family counseling and resource center and RMYA Centro Seguro Drop-In Center for Sex Trafficked Youth, the first 24\/7 specialized center in the nation to achieve national accreditation from COA. <span class=\"xn-person\">Centro Seguro<\/span> was created in 2017 and established initially as a joint project of RMYA, Bexar County Juvenile Probation, the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation and the Texas Office of the Governor. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgf3celeft\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgf3celeft\" title=\"High School Graduation at RMYA Meadowland Charter District\" border=\"0\" alt=\"High School Graduation at RMYA Meadowland Charter District\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1175949\/RMYA_Meadowland_Charter_School_Graduation.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>RMYA achieved accreditation following eighteen months of rigorous self-examination and documentation of its agency-wide processes. Organizations pursue accreditation to demonstrate the implementation of best practice standards in the field of human services. COA evaluated all aspects of RMYA&#8217;s programs, services, management, and administration. In all, 899 individual standards were examined during the process. Based on their findings, COA&#8217;s Accreditation Commission voted that Roy Maas Youth Alternatives had successfully met the criteria for accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The COA accreditation process provides a unique view of RMYA as seen through the eyes of highly experienced professionals,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Jody Levison-Johnson<\/span>, President and CEO of COA. &#8220;This achievement represents the fulfillment of countless hours of hard work and the dedication of many people\u2013most notably RMYA staff and the members of its board and executive leadership team. <\/p>\n<p>RMYA CEO <span class=\"xn-person\">Bill Wilkinson<\/span> remarked, &#8220;COA accreditation validates who we are and what we value as an organization serving children and youth in crisis. We are proud to be counted among the fewer than 25% of child-serving residential providers in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> that have received accreditation, which is a critical component of RMYA&#8217;s path to being certified as a Qualified Residential Treatment Provider under the federal Family First Prevention Services Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>COA accreditation is an objective, independent, and reliable validation of an agency&#8217;s performance. COA accreditation demonstrates accountability in the management of resources, sets standardized best practice thresholds for service and administration, and increases organizational capacity and accountability by creating a framework for ongoing quality improvement. An endorsement of COA and the value of its accreditation process is reflected in it being the only national accreditor designated by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop accreditation standards and processes for human service programs provided to military personnel and their families.<\/p>\n<p><u>About Council on Accreditation<br \/><\/u>Founded in 1977, COA is an independent, not-for-profit accreditor of the full continuum of community-based behavioral health care and social service organizations in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span>. Over 2,000 organizations \u2014 voluntary, public, and proprietary; local and statewide; large and small \u2014 have either successfully achieved COA accreditation or are currently engaged in the process. Presently, COA has 47 service standards that are applicable to over 125 different types of programs. To learn more about COA, please visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2819906-1&amp;h=1618559534&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coanet.org%2F&amp;a=www.coanet.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.coanet.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><u>About Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA)<br \/><\/u>Roy Maas Youth Alternatives helps children and families in crisis become healthy, happy, productive members of our community and works to end the cycle of trauma and abuse. The programs are designed to help children navigate through the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, abandonment, violence and neglect they have experienced. RMYA provides a safe, supervised setting, on-campus accredited schools, medical care, cultural and recreational enrichment programs, individual, family and group counseling services, life skills, and parenting classes. Since 1976, RMYA programs have served over 83,000 abused, neglected, and high-risk youth through a nutritious diet, residential and counseling services. RMYA COA-accredited programs include The RMYA Bridge and <span class=\"xn-location\">La Puerta<\/span> Emergency Shelters, RMYA Meadowland long-term residential campus, RMYA TurningPoint Transitional Living Program, RMYA Centro Seguro Drop-In Center, the RMYA Meadowland Charter District and the RMYA Family Counseling and Resource Center.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2819906-1&amp;h=2888707935&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rmya.org%2F&amp;a=www.rmya.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.rmya.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Contacts:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Gail Ribalta<\/span><br \/>210-340-8077 <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Gina Eisenberg<\/span><br \/>210-254-5661 <\/p>\n<p>Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA)<br \/>3103 West Avenue<br \/><span class=\"xn-location\">San Antonio, TX<\/span> 78213 <br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:gribalta@rmya.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">gribalta@rmya.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg4ed8left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg4ed8left\" title=\"RMYA &quot;We are Family&quot; Summer Fun on Campus\" border=\"0\" alt=\"RMYA &quot;We are Family&quot; Summer Fun on Campus\" align=\"middle\" imagelabel=\"General\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1175951\/RMYA_We_Are_Family_Summer_Fun.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2819906-1&amp;h=4001151897&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1175949%2FRMYA_Meadowland_Charter_School_Graduation.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1175949%2FRMYA_Meadowland_Charter_School_Graduation.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1175949\/RMYA_Meadowland_Charter_School_Graduation.jpg<\/a> <br \/>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2819906-1&amp;h=3611331888&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1175951%2FRMYA_We_Are_Family_Summer_Fun.jpg&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fmma.prnewswire.com%2Fmedia%2F1175951%2FRMYA_We_Are_Family_Summer_Fun.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1175951\/RMYA_We_Are_Family_Summer_Fun.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SAN ANTONIO<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 2, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0<b>Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA) <\/b>has achieved national accreditation through the <span class=\"xn-location\">New York<\/span>-based Council on Accreditation (COA). Since 1976, the <span class=\"xn-location\">San Antonio, TX<\/span> based RMYA programs have served over 83,000 abused, neglected, and high-risk youth and families through residential and counseling services. Youth in RMYA programs receive expert therapeutic intervention and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}