Case Study: Valley Youth House achieves HIPAA-compliant email protection with Virtru

Valley Youth House Seeks Out HIPAA-Compliant Email Encryption for Sharing Sensitive Data Internally and Externally

Valley Youth House is a nonprofit that provides counseling, life skills training, housing, and emergency support for vulnerable, abused, and homeless youth. Because it handles protected health information and shares sensitive data with staff, government agencies, and other partners, the organization needed a HIPAA-compliant email encryption solution. Prior to Virtru, it relied on TLS encryption, which was not always supported by the people Valley Youth House needed to email.

Valley Youth House selected Virtru for Google Gmail and Virtru for Microsoft Outlook to provide domain-wide, end-to-end encrypted email protection. The team said Virtru was easy to roll out, flexible enough to support custom rules, and simple for employees to use without adding complexity to daily email workflows. With Virtru, Valley Youth House can securely communicate with third parties without relying on TLS and improve collaboration while protecting client privacy and HIPAA compliance.

Valley Youth House

Shaun Michel

IT Director