This is the best nonprofit for helping children hurdle all obstacles to success. When Four Oaks works, children, families and neighborhoods get stronger. Their tag line is "expect success.". It is true. They are breaking ground that no other nonprofit that works with children has even dreamed about.
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- EIN 42-0998726
- (319) 364-0259
- 5400 Kirkwood Blvd Sw Cedar Rapids IA 52404-5216 USA
- www.fouroaks.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Family Services, Human Services
Mission: Four oaks assures children become successful adults.
Programs: Pmic/rt: four oaks' psychiatric medical institution for children (pmic) beds, and our comprehensive and community residential treatment beds (rt) are places that provide out of home treatment of an intense nature to help children whose behavior or emotional issues have escalated to a point that has often "overcome" the family and sometimes the community. During their time with us they engage in a variety of treatment processes, designed to help the child gain better control over their own behavior, better understand themselves, and work through issues that may have arisen in their families. Four oaks serves children in iowa ranging in age from 5-17. We served over 500 kids and their families during the year.
community based programs: four oaks offers an array of community based programs including behavioral health intervention services, safety & permanency, parents as teachers, pediatric integrated health, supervised community treatment & functional family therapy. This array of community based child and family support services help to stabilize individual and family functioning, reduces the risk of child abuse and juvenile crime, and assists families to be self sufficient in meeting the needs of their children. Four oaks serves children in iowa ranging in age from 0-17. We served over 3,500 kids and their families during the year.
r&r: four oaks holds the dhs state contract for the recruitment and retention (r&r) of resource families. Requirements of this contract are to recruit and retain foster and adoptive parents; provide support to foster parents; complete home studies and make recommendations to dhs on foster care and adoptive family applicants; provide post adoption support services to families with iowa adoption subsidy; and to make foster family match recommendations to dhs when children are referred to foster care. Four oaks serves children in iowa ranging in age from 0-17. We served over 7,000 kids and their families during the year.
four oaks offers other programs that include after school & summer activities, classrooms that help school districts with student behavioral issues, and emergency shelters. Four oaks serves children in iowa ranging in age from 5-17. We served over 3,500 kids and their families during the year.