Youth Network Council

Support and coordination of redeploy illinois, a state program designed to decrease the commitment of youth to secure juvenile facilities by changing fiscal incentives. Redeploy illinois and the redeploy illinois focused program work with community-based providers to offer services to youth involved with the juvenile justice system in their home communities, reducing reliance on secure confinement. Since the inception of the program in 2005, redeploy illinois sites have diverted thousands of youth from secure juvenile justice facilities saving the state more than $88 million in unnecessary incarceration costs. Icoy provides training and technical assistance to the counties and judicial circuits that are host to redeploy illinois program sites.

The administration for children & families grant provides for a random control trial to evaluate a collaborative approach to serving families at risk of child removal into foster care, when the parent(s) has an identified substance use disorder.