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Works with families to identify new strategies for communication and relating. Also works with individuals who struggle with anxiety, depression, PTSD and past trauma.

Intensive Family Preservation: therapists and family skill builders work with families in their home to help prevent a child's removal from the home into foster care. Each case consists of six weeks of intensive family therapy and support. Therapists are available to assist the family 24 hours a day with crisis situations, but also help to relieve conflicts so the family can remain intact. Administered in the family home and only available through a referral from a DHHS child and family specialist.

Outpatient Therapy Program: provides individual and family counseling and support to children in foster care, foster parents, and biological parents of children who have been removed from the home. We accept most insurance and offer payment solutions for uninsured or underinsured.

The outpatient clinic for mental health services is open to the community, available in the office or via telehealth. Therapists help clients work through mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, a bi-polar disorder, addiction, PTSD, dementia, grief, loss and more.

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Mental Health Evaluation
Telemental Health
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Family Preservation Programs
General Counseling Services
Family Life Education
Adolescent/Youth Counseling

Helps families in crisis by offering programs that work to stabilize families through guidance, emotional support, and basic necessities. Caseworker services are provided to families and seek to preserve families to enable children to remain safely at home and avoid separation and/or placement of the children. Referrals to other programs or community agencies are conducted as appropriate.

Intact Services are tailored to a family's particular crisis and are provided to prevent children from coming into the foster care system. Services may include:

-- Parenting classes.

-- Emergency caretakers.

-- Housing assistance.

-- Individual and family counseling.

-- Child development education.

-- Respite care.

-- Daycare.

-- Employment placement.

-- Household management education.

-- Emergency food assistance.

-- Community resource referrals.

Provides advocacy for families with government agencies, Child Protective Services, courts, probation, foster placements, etc. Parenting skills development, home visits, and court recommendations. Transportation is available to and from appointments as outlined in state and/or Tribal case plans. Includes transportation for employment, housing, behavioral health services, referrals, court, DHHS, and other agencies. Transportation requires 24 hour notice and is based on availability.
In home parenting skill building for at risk families that have had a child abuse or neglect allegation made against them, or are referred from juvenile court officers or schools. Self referrals are also accepted. Case managers work with the family in the home over a six to nine-month period, teaching them skills to properly parent and/or supervise their children, and provide them with necessary referrals.

Recruits and licenses homes for Traditional and Specialized foster care placement in the north-central counties of Illinois.

Foster parents cooperate with the court to set goals that ideally results in the return of the child to their family. If that is not possible, foster parents are asked to commit to permanency for the child.

Specialized foster care programs work to meet the special needs of physically, behaviorally, and emotionally challenged children and the foster families serving them. Provides intensive case management, comprehensive mental health services along with medical, developmental, and educational service specific to the child's needs.

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Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Family Preservation Programs
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement
Provides advocacy for families with government agencies, Child Protective Services, courts, probation, foster placements, etc. Parenting skills development, home visits, and court recommendations. Transportation is available to and from appointments as outlined in state and/or Tribal case plans. Includes transportation for employment, housing, behavioral health services, referrals, court, DHHS, and other agencies. Transportation requires 24 hour notice and is based on availability.
Home-based, intensive family preservation program that offers families a variety of services in an attempt to keep the children in the home, keep the family intact, and improve overall family functioning.
Family support services, supervised visitation, tracker services, global positioning services, in-home safety services, home supported safety services, crisis respite, and drug testing available. Services are available to families involved in the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice systems.

Strength-based, in-home and community-based program designed to reduce youth and family risk that contributes to delinquent behavior while increasing youth and family protective factors. Family Consultants work with families to enhance and improve youth and family functioning in the home and community while preventing the need for youth to be detained or referred to an out-of-home setting. Each family has an individualized service plan developed to include youth and family-driven goals that address the emotional, behavioral, social and educational needs of at-risk youth and families. The services provided strongly focus on family engagement, initial and ongoing assessment, individualized interventions, and case closure planning for long-term outcomes.

This program integrates parent training and intensive in-home family work and case management. Boys Town Family Consultants are available 24/7 and work with families in their homes, communities and schools. This service is designed to implement focused interventions and cognitive behavioral techniques to enhance youth skill development, such as social skills, problem-solving skills, and anger management skills. Family Consultants work with parents on evidence-based, behaviorally-oriented parenting practices to improve family functioning and stability within the home. Services provided to the youth and family include: teaching cognitive behavioral techniques and skills that promote self-sufficiency, developing problem-solving skills, practicing new skills and developing skills to help open lines of communication within the family and its support network (schools, relatives, friends).

Long term residential placement for youth 10-18 years of age. Outpatient substance abuse treatment and therapy services available for youth placed in the long-term residential program.

Behavioral health services for youth 5-18 years of age depending on the program or service.

Volunteer mentoring program for 3rd through 12th grade in math or reading skills.

Family preservation services in Iowa and Nebraska.

Educational programs for professionals working with youth.

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Residential Mental Health Treatment Facilities
Mentoring Programs
Family Preservation Programs
Adolescent/Youth Counseling

Long term residential placement for youth 10-18 years of age. Outpatient substance abuse treatment and therapy services available for youth placed in the long-term residential program.

Behavioral health services for youth 5-18 years of age depending on the program or service.

Volunteer mentoring program for 3rd through 12th grade in math or reading skills.

Family preservation services in Iowa and Nebraska.

Educational programs for professionals working with youth.

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Residential Mental Health Treatment Facilities
Mentoring Programs
Family Preservation Programs
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Intensive team facilitation and service coordination for youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families.

Eligibility for traditional program: Youth, ages 0-21, with behavioral concerns, diagnosed with a serious emotional disorder, at risk for out-of-home placement.

Eligibility for transition age program: Young adults, ages 17-25, diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness, at risk of entering, or have entered, the adult emergency system.

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Psychiatric Case Management
Family Preservation Programs

Strength-based, in-home and community-based program designed to reduce youth and family risk that contributes to delinquent behavior while increasing youth and family protective factors. Family Consultants work with families to enhance and improve youth and family functioning in the home and community while preventing the need for youth to be detained or referred to an out-of-home setting. Each family has an individualized service plan developed to include youth and family-driven goals that address the emotional, behavioral, social and educational needs of at-risk youth and families. The services provided strongly focus on family engagement, initial and ongoing assessment, individualized interventions, and case closure planning for long-term outcomes.

This program integrates parent training and intensive in-home family work and case management. Boys Town Family Consultants are available 24/7 and work with families in their homes, communities and schools. This service is designed to implement focused interventions and cognitive behavioral techniques to enhance youth skill development, such as social skills, problem-solving skills, and anger management skills. Family Consultants work with parents on evidence-based, behaviorally-oriented parenting practices to improve family functioning and stability within the home. Services provided to the youth and family include: teaching cognitive behavioral techniques and skills that promote self-sufficiency, developing problem-solving skills, practicing new skills and developing skills to help open lines of communication within the family and its support network (schools, relatives, friends).

Provides support to parents to follow through on goals that allow them to preserve and reunite their families. Includes home visits, counseling services, case management, referrals to community resources, parenting classes, furniture vouchers, and practical and emotional support during court proceedings, doctor visits, and other appointments.

Family4ward takes a team approach to Intensive Family Preservation providing both a therapeutic and skill building intervention with the family in a community setting. Our Licensed Mental Health Therapist will develop a treatment plan with measurable (SMART) goals and objectives for the client. The Skill Builder will work with the family to achieve goals.

Family4ward will address the criminogenic risk factors including mental health issues, family relationship problems, youth delinquency, truancy, abuse, and neglect.

The goal of Intensive Family Preservation (IFP) is to preserve the family integrity and function and prevent out of home placement. To reduce the risk of out of home placement and mitigate criminogenic risk. The program will strive to improve the capacity after services have discontinued.

Family4ward will implement a service model based on HOMEBUILDERS and Strengthening Families curriculum and is designed for families who are at substantial risk of having their children placed in out-of-home care.

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Family Preservation Programs

A short-term, in-home, community-based, intervention program (6-9 months) that works with families who have been identified by DCFS as at risk for foster care placement.

Designed to help families identify strengths, set goals and modify behaviors that put their children at risk, with the goal of safely maintaining the children in the home.

Foster home support for children placed out of home.

Drug and alcohol testing.

Supervised visitation and family support services.

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Parental Visitation Facilitation
General Counseling Services
Mental Health Evaluation
Family Preservation Programs
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Screening, Assessment, and Support Services (SASS) is a home and community-based program that provides mental health services to adolescents and children who are at risk of being removed from their family; the goal is to keep children in their homes through comprehensive assessments and intensive treatment services.
Home-based, intensive family preservation program that offers families a variety of services in an attempt to keep the children in the home, keep the family intact, and improve overall family functioning.
Provides advocacy for families with government agencies, Child Protective Services, courts, probation, foster placements, etc. Parenting skills development, home visits, and court recommendations. Transportation is available to and from appointments as outlined in state and/or Tribal case plans. Includes transportation for employment, housing, behavioral health services, referrals, court, DHHS, and other agencies. Transportation requires 24 hour notice and is based on availability.

Provides short-term assistance to relatives or close family supporters (fictive kin) who have been caring for a child/children informally. Relative caregivers receive assistance in obtaining guardianship of the child for whom they are providing care. Also helps resolve any crisis the family may be facing and prepares the relative caregivers to achieve permanency for the child as well as for them. Services aim to prevent children's entry into out-of-home care and help children achieve permanency.

Additionally, families are provided with financial assistance, if needed, to address needs such as clothing for the child(ren), additional needed furniture to accommodate the child(ren) such as mattresses, beds, and linen, and helping the child(ren) to be enrolled in school by acquiring birth certificates of child(ren). Also helps family identify appropriate additional benefits to which they may be entitled.

Services may include:

-- Assistance in obtaining guardianship.

-- Education on navigating the court system and proceedings.

-- Help obtaining a child-only grant, subsidized day care and other entitlements.

-- Guidance on enrolling children in local schools.

-- Assistance with financial and housing issues.

-- Cash and in-kind assistance to help meet the basic needs of the family.

-- Referral linkages to other needed community resources including legal services, and medical and mental health services.

Family4ward takes a team approach to Intensive Family Preservation providing both a therapeutic and skill building intervention with the family in a community setting. Our Licensed Mental Health Therapist will develop a treatment plan with measurable (SMART) goals and objectives for the client. The Skill Builder will work with the family to achieve goals.

Family4ward will address the criminogenic risk factors including mental health issues, family relationship problems, youth delinquency, truancy, abuse, and neglect.

The goal of Intensive Family Preservation (IFP) is to preserve the family integrity and function and prevent out of home placement. To reduce the risk of out of home placement and mitigate criminogenic risk. The program will strive to improve the capacity after services have discontinued.

Family4ward will implement a service model based on HOMEBUILDERS and Strengthening Families curriculum and is designed for families who are at substantial risk of having their children placed in out-of-home care.

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Family Preservation Programs

Provides intensive intact family case management services for which DCFS has identified that abuse and neglect has occurred within the family, but safety measures can be in place to keep the children in the care of the family.

Foster home support for children placed out of home.

Drug and alcohol testing.

Supervised visitation and family support services.

Categories

Parental Visitation Facilitation
General Counseling Services
Mental Health Evaluation
Family Preservation Programs
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders

A short-term, in-home, community-based, intervention program (6-9 months) that works with families who have been identified by DCFS as at risk for foster care placement.

Designed to help families identify strengths, set goals and modify behaviors that put their children at risk, with the goal of safely maintaining the children in the home.