Hoyleton Youth And Family Services

Programs: Residential care program: a residential treatment program for children and adolescents, ages 9 through 21, 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.

child welfare: the foster care program serves approximately 200 children, their birth parents, and their foster parents. These children are in the guardianship/protective custody of the department of children and family services due to parental abuse or neglect. Ultimately they are either returned to the care of their parents (when that can be safely accomplished), emancipated into their own care, or they may be freed for adoption - usually by their foster parents. Although based in east st. Louis, children are served throughout the metro-east area and the marion/carbondale area.

clinical & prevention: the clinical & prevention program is comprised of several different activities. Counseling - the counseling 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 multi-disciplinary coalition to assist on investigations involving 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 team - the icdr 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. Project safe neighborhood (psn) - hoyleton works in partnership with the us attorney general's office and the illinois state police wave (working against violent environments) team, managing two department of justice grants aimed at reducing violence in the greater east st. Louis area. The wave team is made up of members of federal, state, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies and led by the illinois state police. Substance abuse prevention & treatment - this program supports assessments and delivery of substance abuse prevention services. Services target a defined geographic area with emphasis on impacting the environments of children ages 11-18. 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 local junior high and high school students as well as residents of the youth facilities. Rescue & restore - a partnership with the international institute to provide community outreach and education on all types of human trafficking, including sex trades and labor exploitation, minors and adults, with the goal of increasing the number of labor and sex trafficking victims identified in our service area.