Hoyleton Youth And Family Services

Residential care program: a residential treatment program for children and adolescents, ages 9 through 21, and transitional living for older dcfs adolescents, with developmental disabilities, and who may also have severe emotional/behavioral problems. Residential staff members provide a wide array of services to help these youths positively change their behavior; achieve established educational goals; and learn to live in the community with others. The home is licensed by the illinois department of children and family services (idcfs) and accredited by the council on accreditation of services for families and children.in the current fiscal year, 81 individuals benefited from this program.

Clinical and prevention: the clinical & prevention program is comprised of several different activities:counseling - the counseling care program has several different components. Hoyleton provides therapy to the children in our foster care program, and to their parents, in an attempt to resolve the problems that caused the children to be removed from their parent's care. Southern illinois child death investigation task force - hoyleton serves as the fiscal agent and works to recruit a multidisciplinary coalition to assist on investigations involving...(see sch. O)(southern illinois child death investigation task force cont.): unexplained, unexpected, unusual, suspicious, and/or inflicted serious life-threatening injuries and deaths of children under the age of 18. The task force serves illinois' southern-most 34 counties; ensuring resources are available to small and rural counties.illinois child death review (icdr) team - the idcr team exists to reduce the number of preventable child deaths in the state of illinois. It is made up of multidisciplinary teams who review child deaths to understand the causes and reasons, and prevent future deaths. Hoyleton serves as the fiscal agent and the supervisory agency for dedicated program staff.teen pregnancy prevention prep - this program is designed to support the implementation of direct services, using curriculum that target children ages 11-18, in a defined geographic area with high need. These services are provided to residents of various youth facilities.in the current fiscal year, more than 4,600 individuals benefited from these programs.

The crisis care program provides services for those in need that provides relief as programmatically necessary.