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).
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).
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Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes
- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.
EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.
Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes
- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.
EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.
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Provides trauma-informed in-home and telehealth therapeutic services to families with adopted children. Therapeutic services include family and individual therapy, group therapy and activities, caregiver psychoeducation/coaching, case management and advocacy.
Provides trauma-informed in-home and telehealth therapeutic services to families with adopted children. Therapeutic services include family and individual therapy, group therapy and activities, caregiver psychoeducation/coaching, case management and advocacy.
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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).
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).
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Provides trauma-informed in-home and telehealth therapeutic services to families with adopted children. Therapeutic services include family and individual therapy, group therapy and activities, caregiver psychoeducation/coaching, case management and advocacy.
Provides trauma-informed in-home and telehealth therapeutic services to families with adopted children. Therapeutic services include family and individual therapy, group therapy and activities, caregiver psychoeducation/coaching, case management and advocacy.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes
- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.
EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.
Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes
- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.
EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.
Offers supportive services for any adoptive child living within the 22 county service area to help them stabilize in their home.
Services are provided to families formed through
- DCFS adoption.
- Subsidized guardianship.
- Private domestic adoption.
- Foreign adoption.
- Out of state adoption.
- Intensive services are offered.
Some of the more common challenges/presenting problems include
- Attachment difficulties.
- Trauma.
- ADHD.
- Chronic lying or stealing.
- Aggression.
- Peer problems.
- Eating or sleep disturbances.
- Sexual acting out.
- Fire-setting.
- Behavioral problems.
- Wetting and defecating issues.
- Family adjustment.
- Grief resolution.
- Learning disabilities.
Offers supportive services for any adoptive child living within the 22 county service area to help them stabilize in their home.
Services are provided to families formed through
- DCFS adoption.
- Subsidized guardianship.
- Private domestic adoption.
- Foreign adoption.
- Out of state adoption.
- Intensive services are offered.
Some of the more common challenges/presenting problems include
- Attachment difficulties.
- Trauma.
- ADHD.
- Chronic lying or stealing.
- Aggression.
- Peer problems.
- Eating or sleep disturbances.
- Sexual acting out.
- Fire-setting.
- Behavioral problems.
- Wetting and defecating issues.
- Family adjustment.
- Grief resolution.
- Learning disabilities.
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Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes
- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.
EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.
Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes
- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.
EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.
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Provides guidance to keep families together and to keep children safe from abuse or neglect. IFS partners with these families to resolve the issues that create risk of harm for their children. IFS helps strengthen families to accomplish their goals by providing counseling, in-home parent education, and linkage and referral to needed community services.
Provides guidance to keep families together and to keep children safe from abuse or neglect. IFS partners with these families to resolve the issues that create risk of harm for their children. IFS helps strengthen families to accomplish their goals by providing counseling, in-home parent education, and linkage and referral to needed community services.
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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).
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).
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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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Offers to assist former refugee families through education, family wellness, work readiness and economic development programs.
Offers to assist former refugee families through education, family wellness, work readiness and economic development programs.
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Offers short-term therapy that assists families in better managing their challenges, environment and relationships.
Offers short-term therapy that assists families in better managing their challenges, environment and relationships.
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Offers a number of behavioral health, mental health and substance abuse services that are both trauma focused and strengths based. Services offered place a high emphasis on education, practice, and development of new skills to help individuals achieve goals.
The Clinical Services Program expands beyond the Home's youth to serve other youth and families in the community. Services open to the public:
- Evaluations - Available for individuals who have been court ordered to receive an initial diagnostic interview or for those who need evaluated for mental health, behavioral health or substance abuse treatment.
- Intensive Outpatient Program - A comprehensive, structured therapy program to help adolescents overcome substance abuse and mental health symptoms.
- Outpatient Program - A treatment plan focusing on increasing strengths and resources to help individuals overcome mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders.
- Day Reporting - A comprehensive and strengths focused daily program for youth who are struggling in their current environment and are in need of additional structure and activity; located on Omaha Home for Boys campus.
- Family Support - A skill building program for families and youth that helps enhance family functioning in the home and overall functioning in the community.
- Intensive Family Preservation - Directed by a licensed therapist and experienced skill builder, this service offers therapy and skill building for families and youth.
Offers a number of behavioral health, mental health and substance abuse services that are both trauma focused and strengths based. Services offered place a high emphasis on education, practice, and development of new skills to help individuals achieve goals.
The Clinical Services Program expands beyond the Home's youth to serve other youth and families in the community. Services open to the public:
- Evaluations - Available for individuals who have been court ordered to receive an initial diagnostic interview or for those who need evaluated for mental health, behavioral health or substance abuse treatment.
- Intensive Outpatient Program - A comprehensive, structured therapy program to help adolescents overcome substance abuse and mental health symptoms.
- Outpatient Program - A treatment plan focusing on increasing strengths and resources to help individuals overcome mental health, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders.
- Day Reporting - A comprehensive and strengths focused daily program for youth who are struggling in their current environment and are in need of additional structure and activity; located on Omaha Home for Boys campus.
- Family Support - A skill building program for families and youth that helps enhance family functioning in the home and overall functioning in the community.
- Intensive Family Preservation - Directed by a licensed therapist and experienced skill builder, this service offers therapy and skill building for families and youth.
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