Ware Youth Center is located approximately 3 ½ miles outside the town of Coushatta in Red River Parish, State of Louisiana on US Highway 71. Red River Parish is in the northwestern quadrant of the state, and Coushatta, the parish seat, is 25 miles east of Mansfield, 32 miles northwest of Natchitoches and 52 miles southeast of Bossier City.

Ware Youth Center. 3565 Louisiana Highway 71, Coushatta, Louisiana 71019 (318) 932-4411 [email protected]

Ware Youth Center offers a 24-bed non-secure residential group home for twelve females and twelve males and a 16-bed substance abuse treatment program for eight males and eight females.

Ware Youth Center. Recreational Activities in the facility gym, on campus, or off campus. Activities on campus may include basketball games, dance-exercise, volleyball, badminton, softball, football, or fishing.

Ware Youth Center offers 34 beds to males and females between the ages of 10 and 16 at the Coushatta facility. We also offer 21 beds to males and females between the ages of 10 and 16 at the Bossier facility.

PREA sets a standard that protects the Eighth Amendment right (Constitutional right prohibiting cruel or unusual punishment) of Federal, State, and local youth offenders. The goal of this law is to prevent, detect and respond to sexual abuse in confinement facilities.

3565 US-71 Coushatta, Louisiana 71019

3565 US-71 Coushatta, Louisiana 71019