Hilvarenbeek,

Yes We Can Youth Clinics

A large Dutch residential clinic for 13 to 27 year olds where the peer group is the treatment, publishing its rates, its waiting times and the regulator's findings about it.

Assessed

Rank #26Public score 44Tied

Public evidence, LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public evidence · 44

About Yes We Can Youth Clinics

Yes We Can holds 165 residential places at Hilvarenbeek, run as two peer communities of roughly 80 in mirror-image halves of the building, with a separate English-language clinic and 48 intensive day-treatment places in Eindhoven. It treats 13 to 27 year olds (13 to 25 in the international programme) with psychiatric conditions, substance and behavioural addictions, eating disorders and behavioural problems. The model is collective by design: young people are admitted as fellows, live in shared two to three person bedrooms, and move through a short, high-intensity programme of group work, sport and outdoor challenge, peer confrontation and mandatory family participation. Multidisciplinary teams pair psychiatrists, psychotherapists, BIG-registered psychologists and nurses with lived-experience counsellors and youth coaches. Volume, peer contact and family systems work are the mechanism, not privacy. This is an adolescent and young-adult clinic rather than an adult private residential clinic, and several criteria, client separation above all, are structurally capped by the group model. The Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate opened supervision on 21 April 2026 and released its report on 15 September 2026; the clinic's own dated update states that five of eight standards were assessed as sufficient, that house rules and generic restrictions have been substantially reduced, and that a results report is due to the inspectorate by 15 February 2027.

Clinic overview

Founded: The clinic states it was founded in 2010 by its two founders, and has operated for about sixteen years.
Capacity: 165 residential places at Hilvarenbeek in two communities of about 80, plus 48 day-treatment places in Eindhoven. The capacity of the separate English-language clinic is unresolved: the Dutch site gives 24 places (yeswecanclinics.nl/jeugdkliniek-hilvarenbeek) and the English site ten double bedrooms, which gives twenty (yeswecanclinics.com/about-us).
Languages: Dutch is the primary language of the clinic, and a dedicated English-language international programme is published. No other language is published.
Licence: A licensed specialist mental-health (gespecialiseerde ggz) and youth-care provider under Dutch law, supervised by the Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd. The clinic states it is licensed under the WTZI but publishes no licence number, and the national provider register was not retrievable on 15 September 2026. Unverified
Accreditations: The clinic publishes an ISO 9001:2015 certificate, number 1094.01, issued 25 June 2026 and valid to 18 March 2029, on its own site rather than on an accreditor's register. Its English homepage separately claims ISO9001:2008, a superseded edition, HKZ certification, and accreditation by 72 governing bodies, which no accreditor record supports. Unverified
Payment and insurance: Dutch municipalities fund clients under 18 in full and Dutch health insurers fund 18 to 25 year olds. For international clients the clinic publishes in-network relationships with GMMI, AP Companies, Henner, International SOS, CIGNA, AFSPA and GEO BLUE, and coverage relationships with AXA, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Aetna and UnitedHealthcare Global.
Length of stay: Ten weeks residential is the recommended programme, with seven-week and four-week modules also offered, followed by roughly ten weeks of aftercare. Admissions and extensions are stated to require clinical approval from the treatment team.

Leadership

The clinic names its two founders and one clinician with a role at the site, the group's Chief Medical Officer, a psychiatrist and executive board member. Treating psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and nurses are published only as unnamed headcounts. On 2 July 2026 the clinic stated new clinical leadership was appointed in September 2025, without naming anyone.

Jan Willem Poot

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

leadership

Petra Poot

Co-founder

leadership

Oswald Bloemen

Chief Medical Officer and executive board member, psychiatrist, responsible for medical leadership

medicine

No registration number is published for any named individual. A lookup of the Dutch BIG register on 16 September 2026 confirmed the Chief Medical Officer as a psychiatrist.

Videos

Inside Yes We Can Youth ClinicsSource: Yes We Can Youth ClinicsWatch on YouTube

Yes We Can Youth Clinics & Yes We Can Clinics from aboveSource: Yes We Can Youth ClinicsWatch on YouTube

Yes We Can Youth Clinics - Our world-class sports facilitiesSource: Yes We Can Youth ClinicsWatch on YouTube

The Youth Clinic - When all else fails trailer with english subsSource: Yes We Can Youth ClinicsWatch on YouTube

Treatments

Residential Programme, 10 weeks

Ten weeks

EUR 4,200 a week clinical plus EUR 3,000 a week room and board

The flagship track and the clinic's recommendation. Ten weeks of community living in a peer group, group therapy five times a week of about three hours in groups of about twelve, three one-hour individual sessions a week, sport and outdoor challenge, and a mandatory four-day family coaching and counselling intensive in week five. Designed for young people whose outpatient care has failed. It ends into a structured ten-week digital aftercare programme.

Residential Programme, 7 weeks

Seven weeks

EUR 4,200 a week clinical plus EUR 3,000 a week room and board

The shorter core option, retaining the mandatory four-day family intensive. Suited to young people who cannot commit ten weeks or whose funder authorises a shorter admission. The clinic states that outcomes are better at ten weeks, so seven weeks is presented as a compromise rather than the recommendation.

Residential Programme, 4 weeks

Four weeks

EUR 4,200 a week clinical plus EUR 3,000 a week room and board

The shortest admission. Family involvement drops to a recommended four hours of systemic counselling around admission and discharge rather than the four-day intensive. In practice a stabilisation and reset admission rather than a full course of treatment.

International (English-language) Programme

Ten weeks

Self-pay or international insurance at the published weekly rates

A separate English-language clinic for 13 to 25 year olds from outside the Netherlands, run on the same community method in a castle building on the Hilvarenbeek site with double en-suite bedrooms, male and female accommodation separated and monitored 24 hours a day. In-network and coverage relationships are published with GMMI, AP Companies, Henner, International SOS, CIGNA, AFSPA, GEO BLUE, AXA, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Aetna and UnitedHealthcare Global. The clinic's Dutch site gives this clinic 24 places and its English site describes ten double bedrooms, which gives twenty.

Intensive Day Treatment, Eindhoven

Ongoing, non-residential

Dutch-funded through municipalities and health insurers. No self-pay rate is published.

A 48-place non-residential intensive programme running since 2021 for young people who can remain at home. It works both as a step-down from the clinic and as a lower-intensity entry point into the same method.

Yes We Do aftercare

Ten weeks online, or 10 to 15 weeks at the operator's own outpatient locations, two or three days a week

Twenty 90-minute online group sessions at EUR 1,750, included in the ten-week package price

Structured aftercare following every residential track, delivered online or in weekly groups at the operator's outpatient locations and led by peer counsellors and youth coaches, with a handover to another coordinating lead clinician within the operator. Parent aftercare has no maximum duration. Psychiatric review and medication management after discharge are not published.

Yes We Too family programme

Concurrent with the admission

Included in the residential programme fee. Travel and overnight accommodation during the family programme are excluded.

Structured work with parents and siblings, mandatory in the seven and ten-week tracks, built around a four-day family coaching and counselling intensive in week five, a parent programme of six half-days and a connection day halfway through treatment. Parents and siblings are treated as part of the case rather than as visitors, which is the clinic's most distinctive published design choice after the peer community itself.

Prices

No public price found.

Our assessment

The verifiable client review base is small and sharply split. Trustpilot shows a TrustScore of 2.8 out of 5 from 20 reviews, with half of them at one star and none at four, and the company replies to a minority of negative reviews. Zorgkaart Nederland shows a much larger and much more positive base, an average of 8.4 from 1,364 ratings with visible critical reviews, but that page refused automated access and was captured through a search index only, and the entity mapping to the Hilvarenbeek clinic is not clean. No Google Maps review count or rating could be verified from any accessible source, and it is recorded as not verified rather than estimated. Employer ratings on Glassdoor and Indeed are reviews of the workplace, not of care, and must not be read as client testimony. The clinic's own outcome statistics, 74 percent of fellows no longer requiring specialist care after treatment and 91 percent in school or work, are self-reported and not independently audited. There is no sign of fabricated positive reviews: Trustpilot records no recent history of the company soliciting them.

On 7 April 2026 a Dutch investigative television programme broadcast an investigation built on accounts from more than eighty former clients and more than twenty current and former staff, who described treatment at Hilvarenbeek as humiliating or harmful, as reported by NOS and by Omroep Brabant. The clinic's board publicly apologised, stating that situations had occurred that do not belong in good care. Parliamentary questions followed, and the Dutch mental-health umbrella body published a response. The Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd opened supervision on 21 April 2026 and released its report on 15 September 2026; according to the clinic's own dated update, five of eight standards were assessed as sufficient and improvements were required, with a results report due by 15 February 2027. Individual allegations made in the broadcast are not established as fact here.

None verified.

Facility

The main Hilvarenbeek clinic occupies a former conference centre, converted and divided into two mirror-image halves so that two communities of roughly 80 run in parallel. The international clinic is described by the clinic as a medieval castle site in Hilvarenbeek overlooking a moat with forest and wildlife views, holding ten double bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, private closet space, heating and air conditioning. The Dutch and English sites describe the conference centre and the castle in overlapping terms, and which building holds which capacity is not fully resolved from public sources. Bedrooms in the main clinic are shared, two to three people per room, each with a private shower and toilet. New arrivals are deliberately roomed alongside departing residents, and roommate pairings are set by therapeutic staff. Male and female accommodation is separated and monitored 24 hours a day. Housekeeping is daily. The grounds are the distinguishing asset: high rope and altitude courses, an obstacle course, a fitness room, a dojo, an archery range, mountain-bike trails and a fishing pond, set in woodland. Social space is communal living rooms rather than private lounges. No pool, spa or wellness suite is published. This is a clean, well-equipped, activity-rich campus built for supervised group living, not a luxury residence.

Food

An in-house kitchen team prepares three meals a day. Ingredients are described as largely organic and menus as nutritionally balanced and adjusted weekly. Water is provided throughout the day, and coffee and sugary drinks are deliberately excluded, which reads as a considered clinical choice consistent with the addiction and self-regulation focus rather than a cost decision. Not published: any named executive chef, any gourmet credential, any named nutrition professional, any individual dietary or micronutrient assessment, and any personalised nutrition plan per client. Catering is at canteen scale for 165 residents plus staff.

Privacy

shared setting

Yes We Can does not offer privacy from other clients and does not attempt to. Individual sessions exist, so one-to-one therapy is offered, but there is no single occupancy: fellows share bedrooms two to three to a room. There is no no-client-contact arrangement of any kind: fellows live in communities of roughly 80, and peer contact and peer confrontation are the therapeutic method itself. Clients meet each other continuously, by design and by intent. Male and female accommodation is separated and monitored 24 hours a day, and the clinic advises against admitting acquaintances together, which is a group-dynamics rule rather than a confidentiality measure. This is a statement of what the model is, not a criticism of it. Privacy is not what this clinic sells, and a family seeking privacy from peers should not be looking here. Beyond statutory confidentiality and the group's privacy regulations, which name a twenty-year retention period for medical records and deletion of camera footage within two weeks, no confidentiality mechanism is published.

Assessed 2026-10-01

Rank #26Public score 44Tied

Public evidence, LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public evidence · 44

Headline basis: Public evidenceThe headline number is the public score, not the extended score., LROAS 1.0.0, edition 2026-10-01

Public-evidence total: 44

The sum of the ten criterion scores, from 10 to 100, using evidence anyone can check, including the clinic's own pages as self-declared statements. For the licence element of C2 only, it can also use an authority ruling held in our sealed evidence room. It is the only number used for the rank.

Confidence: medium. Provisional: none.

C1 Client separation and occupancy · 1

The standard accommodation is two or three person bedrooms with a private shower and toilet inside peer communities, and the international clinic is described as ten double rooms. Group therapy runs five times a week for about three hours in groups of about twelve, with a weekly community meeting and shared daily moments. Shared bedrooms as the standard offer place the clinic in band 1, the lowest band. There is no sole-occupancy tier and no separation at arrival or departure.

Confidence: low

Sources (5 cited items):

yeswecanclinics.nl: The main clinic runs two peer communities alongside a separate international clinic; bedrooms are two or three person rooms with a private shower and toilet.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The programme includes group therapy five times a week of about three hours in groups of about twelve, a weekly community meeting and shared daily moments.
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: The international clinic is described as ten double rooms with en-suite bathroom, with male and female rooms separated and supervised 24 hours a day, and a programme combining group and individual therapy.
zoeken.zorgaanbiedersportaal.nl: Place of care named as: Kliniek Hilvarenbeek, Groenendaal 1, 5081 AM Hilvarenbeek
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Programme described by the clinic: International (English-language) Programme

C2 Clinical governance and medical cover · 5

The Landelijk Register Zorgaanbieders lists Stichting Yes We Can Clinics at Groenendaal 1, Hilvarenbeek, with codes for psychiatric care and residential mental-health or substance-use care, which meets the licence element. A Chief Medical Officer who is a psychiatrist leads medical care. Licence and psychiatrist lead with no further medical element gives band 5. Band 6 would need one more element: night cover is a night watch, a nurse and coaches with no physician or psychiatrist named, detox is provided by an external partner, no escalation hospital is named, and the ISO 9001 certificate is a quality-management certificate, not a clinical accreditation. The inspectorate opened supervision of the operator on 21 April 2026.

Confidence: high

Known gaps:

The register entry does not state the licence scope, date or number.
The English quality page claims HKZ certification with no register record found.

Sources (9 cited items):

zoeken.zorgaanbiedersportaal.nl: The Landelijk Register Zorgaanbieders names Stichting Yes We Can Clinics, main establishment Groenendaal 1, 5081 AM Hilvarenbeek, with SBI codes for psychiatric care (86.22.2) and residential care for long-term mental-health or substance-use needs (87.20.2), and states "Deze zorgaanbieder heeft een toelatingsvergunning." No licence scope, date or number is given.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The clinic states it is a recognised specialist mental-health institution licensed under the WTZI and holds a certified quality system, with no licence number given.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The board since October 2025 includes a Chief Medical Officer, stated as a psychiatrist responsible for medical leadership, alongside headcounts of 20 psychiatrists, 12 nurses and more than 110 treatment staff.
yeswecanclinics.nl: Overnight cover is a night watch, a nurse on duty for medical needs and coaches on night shift; parents receive an emergency number reachable 24 hours a day.
igj.nl: The Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd opened supervision of the operator on 21 April 2026, including information requests and inspection visits.
Yes We Can Clinics footer links (no imprint page): Search of Yes We Can Clinics footer links (no imprint page). Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (licence category disclosed). Result: no record found.
Kwaliteit en verantwoording page: Search of Kwaliteit en verantwoording page. Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (licence category disclosed). Result: record found.
LRZa Zorgaanbiedersportaal, Stichting Yes We Can Clinics (KvK 52716058): Search of LRZa Zorgaanbiedersportaal, Stichting Yes We Can Clinics (KvK 52716058). Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (licence class). Result: record found.
LRZa Zorgaanbiedersportaal, Yes We Can Youth Clinics B.V. (KvK 67635695): Search of LRZa Zorgaanbiedersportaal, Yes We Can Youth Clinics B.V. (KvK 67635695). Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (licence class). Result: record found.

C3 Diagnostic depth on admission · 5

Intake takes about half a day: a case manager leads the first part and a treatment provider and a psychiatrist the second, and a preliminary diagnosis is drawn up and reported to the young person and their parents, with the indicating lead clinician setting the diagnosis. This psychiatrist-led assessment with a preliminary diagnosis gives band 5. No physical examination by a physician, laboratory panel or written formulation is published, which blocks a higher band.

Confidence: medium

Sources (3 cited items):

yeswecanclinics.nl: Intake takes about half a day; a case manager leads the first part and a treatment provider and a psychiatrist the second; the intake assesses suitability and treatment type, and a pharmacy medication list is required.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The indicating lead clinician sets the diagnosis and indicates whether clinical treatment is appropriate, a preliminary diagnosis is drawn up at intake, and the programme includes medical and pharmacotherapeutic treatment and psychiatric consultations.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The board page names a Chief Medical Officer who is a psychiatrist, the one clinician the operator names with a clinical role.

C4 Clinical intensity · 4

The programme publishes three one-hour individual sessions a week with a fixed therapist and five group sessions of about three hours, so roughly 83 percent of scheduled clinical hours are groups. That group share triggers the cap at band 4. Each young person has a therapist and a case manager, but the clinical team is pooled across the community. Admissions and extensions follow clinical approval across 4, 7 and 10 week programmes.

Confidence: medium

Sources (7 cited items):

yeswecanclinics.nl: The programme is five group therapy sessions a week of about three hours and three one-to-one sessions a week of one hour with the individual therapist, in groups of about twelve led by a peer counsellor and a therapist, supervised 24 hours a day by coaches.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The inpatient programme runs 7 or 10 weeks on a daily schedule from 06:45 to 22:30, with group sessions in the morning and individual sessions in the afternoon.
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Each fellow is assigned a therapist and a case manager.
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Admissions and extensions are only possible upon clinical approval from the treatment team, across 4, 7 and 10 week programmes.
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Programme described by the clinic: Residential Programme, 10 weeks
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Programme described by the clinic: Residential Programme, 7 weeks
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Programme described by the clinic: Residential Programme, 4 weeks

C5 Continuity and aftercare · 8

Treatment ends with a final meeting and a summarising report with advice sent to the referring GP with consent, and a written relapse prevention plan. Aftercare runs 10 to 15 weeks at the operator's own outpatient sites in Breda, Waalre and Abcoude, with published prices for online groups, one-to-one and family sessions, plus a step-down day site in Eindhoven. These elements give band 8. Higher bands are not reached because no psychiatric review or medication management after discharge and no clinician-run aftercare of six months or more is published.

Confidence: medium

Sources (5 cited items):

yeswecanclinics.nl: Treatment ends with a final meeting and a summarising final report with advice, sent to the referring GP with consent; the young person and their parents make a relapse prevention plan; aftercare runs 10 to 15 weeks, two or three days a week, at outpatient locations led by peer counsellors and youth coaches, with a handover to another coordinating lead clinician.
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Yes We Do Online is twenty 90-minute group sessions at EUR 1,750, with ten 60-minute one-to-one sessions at EUR 2,000 and five 60-minute family systemic sessions at EUR 1,250.
yeswecanclinics.nl: Aftercare sites operate in Breda, Waalre and Abcoude, with day treatment in Eindhoven.
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Programme described by the clinic: Yes We Do aftercare
yeswecanclinics.nl: Programme described by the clinic: Intensive Day Treatment, Eindhoven

C6 Admission integrity and commercial conduct · 7

A sweep of the clinic and group domains found no self-ranking page, press logo strip, sponsored content or text addressed to AI assistants. The English pages claim accreditation by '72 governing bodies' and HKZ certification with no supporting record, and cite an outdated ISO edition; these are unsupported claims, not paid recognition. Three positive signals are met: a fixed weekly price (EUR 4,200 clinical plus EUR 3,000 room and board) with no negotiability statement, referral back to the GP or another provider where there is no suitable offer, and a statement that treatment is voluntary and can be stopped at any moment. No referral-fee position is published. A clean sweep with three positive signals gives band 7.

Confidence: medium

Known gaps:

The voluntary-treatment statement sits alongside a September 2026 inspectorate finding on coercion; that finding is scored under C8, not here.
The stated average cost of EUR 7,400 is EUR 200 above the sum of the two price components.

Sources (5 cited items):

Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Clinical treatment is EUR 4,200 a week and room and board EUR 3,000 a week, published under a statement of no hidden costs, with Dutch regulated maximum prices applying.
yeswecanclinics.nl: Where there is no suitable offer the indicating lead clinician refers back to the GP or advises another provider, and the intake states whether the clinic can help.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The FAQ states that treatment is voluntary and that a young person can stop at any moment, and that of more than 3,500 applications a year about 1,000 young people are admitted.
yeswecanhealthcaregroup.com: The group homepage lists group companies and uses the phrase Centre of Excellence as a self-description; no ranking page, awards, press logos or text addressed to AI assistants was found on it.
clinic and group domains, web search: Search of clinic and group domains, web search. Scope: domains checked yeswecanclinics.nl (homepage, /llms.txt returned 404), yeswecanclinics.com (homepage, /ai-instructions returned 404, /investment, /faq, /meet-us, /contact), yeswecanhealthcaregroup.com (group homepage), yeswecangroup.com (301 redirect to yeswecanhealthcaregroup.com).... Result: sweep recorded; outcome per the C6 V elements.

C7 Transparency toward the client · 6

Six transparency elements are met: fee inclusions and exclusions, the legal entity with Chamber of Commerce number 52716058 and address in the quality statute, a complaints route ending at an external disputes committee, published inspection results, privacy regulations with a twenty-year medical record retention period, and a statement of limits. Band 7 requires payment and refund terms, and no payment, deposit, refund or early-departure terms are published, so the clinic is at band 6. The licence is cited without a number or register link, and no shareholding or ultimate owner is published. No contradiction deduction applied.

Confidence: medium

Known gaps:

The provider register places the Chamber of Commerce number at Hilvarenbeek while the quality statute gives a Waalre address and names a B.V. as operator; this address and entity mismatch is unresolved.

Sources (4 cited items):

Yes We Can Youth Clinics: Included are the clinical programme, room and board and the mandatory four-day family coaching in week five for the 7 and 10 week tracks; excluded are travel expenses and overnight accommodation during the family programme and other visits.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The quality statute names the operating entity with its Chamber of Commerce number 52716058 and its Waalre address, membership of the disputes committee for mental-health care, and detox supplied by an external partner when required.
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: The privacy regulations state that the group's executive board holds overall responsibility, that medical records are retained for twenty years under Dutch law and that camera footage is deleted within two weeks.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The quality page links the 2018 inspection report, the ISO certificate, the quality statute, the professional statute, the complaints regulation and the privacy regulations.

C8 Track record and regulator standing · 2

On 15 September 2026 the inspectorate (Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd) found that the operator applies forms of coercion and liberty-restricting measures to all clients without a legal basis and must stop, and must stop unrecognised interventions that can have a negative impact; a results report is due by mid-February 2027 and no fine or closure was imposed. An order to stop a practice is a serious finding, and a serious finding within the last five years gives band 2. The clinic's own update states that five of eight standards were assessed as sufficient. Accounts from former clients and staff reported after a broadcast investigation remain attributed allegations and score nothing.

Confidence: high

Known gaps:

Follow-up supervision is ongoing; the mid-February 2027 results report could change this criterion.
The element reading for this criterion is not published as a list; the band is explained in the reasoning.

Sources (13 cited items):

igj.nl: The inspectorate's news release of 15 September 2026 states that the operator applies forms of coercion and liberty-restricting measures to all clients without a legal basis and must stop this as soon as possible, and that it must stop unrecognised "out of the box" interventions that can have a negative impact. A results report is due by mid-February 2027. No fine, instruction or closure was imposed.
igj.nl: The inspectorate started supervision on 21 April 2026 to assess the quality and safety of care for young people, with information requests and inspection visits including interviews of management, staff, clinicians, parents and young people, and stated that results would be published in an inspection report.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The clinic's update of 15 September 2026 states that the inspectorate's report was released, that five of eight standards were assessed as sufficient, that house rules and generic restrictions have been substantially reduced, that individual arrangements replace blanket rules on parent contact in the first weeks, that counsellors are restricted to supporting roles under clinicians, that interventions not aligned with guidelines were reviewed or stopped, and that a results report is due by 15 February 2027.
nos.nl: NOS reported that the inspectorate began its investigation after a broadcast investigation citing more than eighty former clients and more than twenty current and former staff who described humiliation and mistreatment at the Hilvarenbeek location, and reported the board's apology. The individual allegations are attributed, not established.
trustpilot.com: Trustpilot shows a TrustScore of 2.8 from 20 reviews, half of them one star, with company replies to 41 percent of negative reviews and no recent review invitations.
IGJ news and report page: Search of IGJ news and report page. Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (last inspection). Result: record found.
LRZa Zorgaanbiedersportaal, Stichting Yes We Can Clinics (KvK 52716058): Search of LRZa Zorgaanbiedersportaal, Stichting Yes We Can Clinics (KvK 52716058). Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (last inspection). Result: record found.
LRZa Zorgaanbiedersportaal, Yes We Can Youth Clinics B.V. (KvK 67635695): Search of LRZa Zorgaanbiedersportaal, Yes We Can Youth Clinics B.V. (KvK 67635695). Scope: register entry for the clinic or its operator (last inspection). Result: record found.
general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: "Yes We Can Clinics" inspectie OR uitspraak OR rechtbank OR boete. Result: record found: Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ) report released 15 September 2026, after supervision opened on 21 April 2026 following the BNNVARA BOOS broadcast of 7 April 2026 and almost 30 further....
general web search: Search of a general web search engine. Scope: uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl "Yes We Can Clinics". Result: record found: Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ) report released 15 September 2026, after supervision opened on 21 April 2026 following the BNNVARA BOOS broadcast of 7 April 2026 and almost 30 further....
Script fetch: Search of Script fetch. Scope: igj.nl news release 2026-09-15. Result: record found: Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ) report released 15 September 2026, after supervision opened on 21 April 2026 following the BNNVARA BOOS broadcast of 7 April 2026 and almost 30 further....
press and news search: Search of press and news search. Scope: first-hand bylined reporting from inside the facility, last 5 years. Result: no record found.
statutory regulator records: Search of statutory regulator records. Scope: inspection history and grades of this site. Result: record found: IGJ inspection in December 2018, which the clinic reports as meeting requirements on all points (report PDF hosted by the clinic, text not extractable). IGJ supervision in 2026 with inspection....

C9 Environment, safety and nutrition · 4

C9 is the mean of a housing sub-band of 6 and a nutrition sub-band of 2, which gives 4. Housing meets six elements: extensive grounds and activity facilities, on-site clinical space, night cover by role, a hospital emergency department about 8 minutes by road from Groenendaal 1, and the site recorded as the licensed provider's main establishment. Band 7 for housing would need emergency readiness, and no emergency equipment, medication policy or risk assessment is published. Meals are provided with kitchen staff but no nutrition professional, assessment or plan, which caps nutrition at 2.

Confidence: medium

Sources (5 cited items):

yeswecanclinics.nl: The grounds hold high rope courses, a fitness room, a dojo, an archery range, a fishing pond, climbing and mountain biking; overnight there is a night watch, a nurse on duty and coaches on night shift; an in-house kitchen team serves three balanced meals a day with largely organic ingredients on weekly-adjusted menus, with water provided and no coffee or soft drinks.
yeswecanclinics.nl: The daily programme runs one-to-one sessions, group sessions and activities at the clinic, with consultation options with the medical service, a parent programme of six half-days and a connection day halfway through treatment.
yeswecanclinics.nl: Support services are listed as kitchen, housekeeping and technical maintenance.
zoeken.zorgaanbiedersportaal.nl: Place of care named as: Kliniek Hilvarenbeek, Groenendaal 1, 5081 AM Hilvarenbeek
yeswecanclinics.nl: Place of care named as: Dagbehandeling Eindhoven, Barrierweg 219, 5622 CN Eindhoven

C10 Clinical seniority and academic standing · 2

The clinic names one clinician with a role at the site, its Chief Medical Officer, confirmed as a psychiatrist on the BIG register on 16 September 2026. The organisation page gives only headcounts of psychiatrists and other clinicians, and the Meet Us and Hilvarenbeek pages name no treating clinicians, so nothing else can be verified. One verified specialist in a leadership role gives band 2.

Confidence: high

Known gaps:

The provider register search was not retrievable on 15 September 2026 but the licence entry was retrieved later; this does not change the score.

Sources (4 cited items):

yeswecanclinics.nl: The organisation page names a board of Chief Executive, Chief Medical, Chief Technology and Chief Financial Officers and a supervisory board of four, with 20 psychiatrists, 12 nurses and more than 110 treatment staff as unnamed headcounts.
zoeken.bigregister.nl: A BIG-register lookup on 16 September 2026 confirmed the Chief Medical Officer as a psychiatrist.
zoeken.zorgaanbiedersportaal.nl: The national provider register search was not retrievable on 15 September 2026, so the facility licence is not proven.
Yes We Can Youth Clinics: The Meet Us page and the Hilvarenbeek youth clinic page name no clinicians, and the quality statute names only a quality contact in a non-clinical role.

Frequently asked questions

How much does treatment at Yes We Can Youth Clinics cost?

The clinic publishes its rates, which is rare in this sector. Clinical treatment is EUR 4,200 per week and room and board a further EUR 3,000 per week. Optional aftercare is priced separately: twenty 90-minute online group sessions at EUR 1,750, ten individual 60-minute sessions at EUR 2,000, and five 60-minute family systemic sessions at EUR 1,250. Travel and family accommodation during the family programme are excluded. Dutch clients under 18 pay nothing because municipalities fund them, and insured 18 to 25 year olds are covered by Dutch health insurance. No package total for the ten-week track is published.

Where is the clinic and what is the setting like?

Treatment takes place in Hilvarenbeek, in the woodland of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands, with head-office functions nearby and an intensive day-treatment site in Eindhoven. The main clinic is a converted former conference centre; the English-language international programme runs from a castle building with a moat and forest views. The grounds carry high rope and obstacle courses, a dojo, mountain-bike trails, an archery range and a fishing pond. Eindhoven airport is close, and Amsterdam and Brussels are both within easy reach. The clinic's own pages give its head office as Oirschot on the English contact page and as Waalre in its quality statute, and that difference is unresolved.

Who is this clinic designed for?

Young people aged 13 to 27 (13 to 25 in the English-language track) whose outpatient care has not worked: psychiatric conditions, substance and behavioural addictions including gaming and screen use, eating disorders, trauma, ADHD, and behavioural problems including aggression and school dropout. Families are treated as part of the case and participation is mandatory in the longer tracks. It is not designed for anyone who needs privacy from peers: fellows share bedrooms and live in communities of roughly 80, and peer contact is the therapeutic method. Anyone considering an admission should also read the clinic's own dated updates on the inspectorate's supervision, opened on 21 April 2026, and its report of 15 September 2026.

What is the admission process and how long is the wait?

A referral letter starts the process, and the clinic confirms an application within three working days. Intake is a half-day appointment with a case manager, a treatment coordinator and, for complex problems, a psychiatrist as the indicating lead clinician, who sets a preliminary diagnosis and decides whether clinical treatment is indicated. There is no waiting time for intake once the referral is in hand. For municipality-funded 13 to 17 year olds, municipal allocation takes 10 working days to 4 weeks and treatment then starts on average 2 to 3 weeks later. For insurance-funded 18 to 25 year olds there is no wait to start, with one published exception at 6 weeks for one insurer. International clients contact the clinic directly. The clinic states that treatment is voluntary and that a young person can stop at any moment, and that of more than 3,500 applications a year about 1,000 young people are admitted. The waiting-times page carries no publication date, which weakens it as evidence even though the figures are specific.

What happens after treatment?

Every residential track ends with a final meeting, a summarising final report with advice, and a written relapse prevention plan made by the young person and their parents. It is followed by roughly ten weeks of structured aftercare, stated in the clinic's quality statute as 10 to 15 weeks, two or three days a week, at the operator's own outpatient locations. The core online option is twenty 90-minute group sessions at EUR 1,750, included in the headline package for the ten-week track, with ten individual sessions at EUR 2,000 and five family systemic sessions at EUR 1,250 available on top. Parent aftercare runs weekly for as long as parents wish. Psychiatric review and medication management after discharge are not published. Alumni remain part of the fellowship network.

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