Traditional Group Home

Kruse Traditional Group Home in Grand Island has 10 beds for clients. They also have a kitchen and laundry facility. This level of care is the least structured portion of the Epworth Village, Inc. program. All the youth at this level must have a need for out of home placement, but do not need to meet medical necessity.

Kruse does have clients in therapy with community-based people, unless the students are in the Day Treatment Program at the Epworth Village Learning Center in York.  Children at this level of care range in age from 12 to 18.  Kruse children do the cooking, their own laundry and the cleaning of the house. They are out in the community and most attend public school. Clients do many projects at the YMCA, go shopping and to the movies. They may also have jobs in the community. Therapy is conducted with community-based people unless the students are in the Day Treatment Program at the Epworth Village Learning Center. Learn more about Curt Vodehnal, Kruse Group Home Unit Manager...

Kruse Clients Volunteer

"The lessons in a serving spoon"
“My boys will do it,” Wanda Kincheloe announces from the Salvation Army kitchen in Grand Island. They sure will. Nathan, Cody, Prestin, Kyle and Tommy all know what it takes to work hard at something.  They know what it takes to face life’s challenges.  They are learning even more by volunteering their hearts and hands to serve others.  The five young men are examples of the success stories that daily arise from Epworth Village, Inc., a family-centered treatment program located in York and Grand Island.  These five young men live at Kruse Group Home in Grand Island, one of the agency’s six, residential treatment facilities. Read the full story...