Adoption Preservation
Provides intensive home, office and community-based interventions for families formed through adoption or guardianship. Specialized treatment for attachment and trauma issues, grief/loss resolution, educational and emotional issues is provided through counseling, psycho-educational and support groups. Families are linked to needed resources and after-hour support is available. The program is supported by DCFS.
Caregiver Counseling Education and Support
Consultation, support and educational programs are provided to family caregivers of older adults and to grandparents raising grandchildren.
Community Schools
Focuses on improving academic grades and standardized test scores in reading, math and language. Community Schools operates during non-school hours to expand positive choices and opportunities for youth while achieving academic success. Activities include tutoring, homework help, recreation, life skills and case management services. Programming in DuPage includes in-school mental health and parenting services, and is funded by federal Safe Schools, Healthy Students funding.
Counseling
Builds on individual strengths and capacity for change, while addressing special needs, behavioral and situational problems or mental illness. Counseling services are offered for children, families, adults and seniors. Psychiatric services are available at certain centers.
Family Self-Sufficiency
Provides low-income families access to job training, education, intensive career and family counseling, transportation and day care. The program is offered in partnership with DuPage County Community Services, Metropolitan Family Services, DuPage County Housing Authority and the Illinois Employment Training Center.
In-Home Senior Respite
A partnership with the community and faith-based organizations that provides screened and trained volunteers who offer regular in-home respite services for families caring for an elder loved one in their home. Also provides education to families and the community about caregiver concerns.
MetroMentors
A youth mentoring program provided in partnership with schools and community organizations. Screened and trained adult mentors are matched one-to-one with at-risk youth ages 7-14, with whom they meet at selected neighborhood locations supervised by program staff. Occasional group activities are held to facilitate social skills development for youth.
Parents as Teachers (PAT)
Provides parent education services to families with children ages birth to 3 years. Through home visits, family nights, play groups, developmental screenings and other services, parents increase self-confidence and competence as their child’s first and most influential teacher, providing a solid foundation for their child’s success in school.
School-Based Services
Offers supportive counseling to students. School-based services also provide; classroom workshops for students, teachers and parents to enhance skills such as conflict resolution, violence prevention and communication.
Senior Counseling
Offers counseling and case management services for seniors experiencing acute or chronic mental or emotional dysfunctioning that can be due to neurological problems, isolation and/or limited mobility as well as loss of significant others. Services address the challenges and stresses of aging, and provide support groups, educational classes and psychiatric services.
Supportive Housing Initiative for Families in Transition (S.H.I.F.T)
Provides employment counseling that complements other
services provided by community partners such as securing housing,
mental health services and case management, all to guide families
toward permanent housing and long-term safety and stability.
Systems of Care (SOC)
Provides crisis response, stabilization and clinically intensive therapeutic services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). SOC provides intensive services to children who are at risk of placement disruption, are stepping down from a more restrictive setting, need mental health or specialized care, or need continued treatment and stabilization services following involvement with SASS.
Youth Intervention
Provides prevention and intervention services to youth and families who are struggling with emotional, behavioral, family, school and peer related issues. Both parents and children benefit from intensive counseling and program components such as parenting classes and psychiatric services.
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