The Youth Emergency Shelter, Inc. (YES) is proud to announce that a contractual partnership arraignment has been reached with the Helen Ross McNabb Center (HRM).

As you are aware, YES has been struggling for some time to achieve the ever increasing requirements of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services.

YES will continue to provide  emergency shelter care, as it has since YES began,  for children brought to YES by the  Hamblen County Juvenile Court,  Morristown Police Department, the Hamblen County Sheriff’s Department and surrounding counties juvenile courts and law enforcement agencies.

Since January 1, 1979  there has never been a night that YES has not had children in the shelter.   YES is  proud that we have been allowed to serve  as the temporary home for over 12,000 children ages three day  old through 17 years. 

YES Executive Director Eddie Davis stated that he “is excited and honored to partner with HRM, an agency who insists on the same high standards of care that YES has always strived to provide.”

“I am very happy that our Board of Directors have found a way to insure YES WILL continue to be here providing the emergency shelter care as YES has for almost thirty years.”  Davis also said that “YES will now, more than ever,  need the community’s prayers and continued support.”

With the partnership, approximately eleven new jobs will be created in Morristown.

HRM will issue their press release in the next few days announcing the services they will provide to lakeway area children at the YES facility.

YES is a non-profit agency, governed by a 27 member volunteer Board of Directors.  YES is an Center of the United Ways of Hamblen, Jefferson and Union Counties.