CHILDREN'S BUREAU INC

The children's shelter offers emergency, temporary housing for children experiencing crises in indianapolis and central indiana. The facility offers a safe haven to runaway and homeless youth, as well as kids removed from their homes due to child abuse and neglect. The children's shelter also offers planned respite services for families who are experiencing significant stress and challenges at home. On average, kids stay at the shelter for less than two weeks. Ultimately, our children's shelter is designed to provide short-term assistance to help children and families get through difficult times and achieve personal growth. We offer a range of services for youth staying at the children's shelter, including counseling, mentoring, and life-skills training. Programming at the children's shelter follows the teaching-family model, an approach that's clinically proven to effectively address trauma and equip children with life skills and effective coping mechanisms. The teaching-family model is designed to motivate youth to take personal responsibility for developing the skills they need to succeed. The program teaches youth to identify and develop techniques to work toward their goals. We make life at the shelter as comfortable as possible. Children at the shelter participate in a range of developmental activities that are designed to help them develop certain skills. We teach children to accept consequences, cooperate with others, follow instructions, ask permission and accept feedback. Kids at the shelter also have 24/7 access to a crisis worker. Our programs are designed around a system that emphasizes respect, introspection, personal boundaries, safety, and consistency. Case managers coordinate communication and transportation for youth to a tend their home school where possible or receive education onsite. Residents at the shelter have access to a wide range of enrichment activities, including yoga, art programs and field trips. An onsite cafeteria provides all meals. Volunteers often provide supplemental assistance.

Support and resources for young adults after foster care. Our placement and supervision program allows youth, who have effectively aged out of the foster system but were previously under the care of the department of child services and probation, to continue receiving certain support services. This program allows our case managers to provide financial assistance for rent, utilities, food, clothing and other incidentals based on individual need. The program is designed to help these teens and young adults develop independent living skills. Participants need to be employed full time or attending school with part-time employment. The independent living program provides teens in the foster system with one-on-one case management services focused on building self-reliance skills. The support program is open to older foster youth and young adults ages 16 to 21, although the department of child services determines individual eligibility. Voluntary services is a case management program for adults ages 18 to 21 who opt to continue receiving certain services. The young adults who join the program are expected to participate actively and outline a plan for achieving independence. Youth placement services: we help connect indiana youth and parents with the resources they need to live successfully. We provide short-term housing through our children's shelter or longer-term treatment at the rachel glick courage center. In all cases, we're committed to doing everything that's required to ensure the children we serve reach the best possible outcome. Our youth placement services are open to a range of individuals, including adults in our communities who are interested in more information about being a licensed foster parent and joining our network of caring foster families. We offer extensive training resources to current foster parents who are licensed through firefly children and family alliance. Our children's shelter serves as a short-term facility for children in crisis, including runaway and homeless youth, and those who have been removed from their home due to abuse or neglect. Planned respite services are available for families experiencing significant challenges. The rachel glick courage center is a secure, short-term facility for youth referred through the indiana department of child services or juvenile detention. Providing a wide range of support services for adoptees and those seeking to adopt. The indiana adoption program is a statewide initiative to find loving, committed, safe, permanent families for children in foster care. Through the program, firefly children and family alliance helps recruit prospective adoptive families and match them with waiting youth. Most children in this program are over ten years old, and many are part of sibling groups, so families interested in adopting older youth or multiple children are especially needed. Every year, over 100 youth find their forever families through the indiana adoption program. Helping hoosiers confront their biggest challenges through our recovery services, we're working to help individuals address past trauma and current struggles. We're committed to helping our clients move beyond the challenges of substance abuse and substance use disorders, domestic violence, sexual assault and mental health issues by developing strategies to cope and move forward. If left unaddressed, these challenges can impact all elements of an individual's life, including work and relationships. Our recovery services help indiana children, adults and families heal. We offer a range of specialized services built to meet our clients' needs. We recognize that our clients require individualized services. The clinicians, counselors, advocates and recovery coaches on our recovery services team offer compassion and empathy for the clients they treat. Whether we're helping our clients recover from domestic violence, sexual assault, addiction or mental health challenges, we make sure they find the help they need.