R2011-102 AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURE OF CITY FUNDS

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1. Advocacy Program 6. Norman Housing Advocacy 10. Comprehensive Cornmuility This program provides intensive one-on-one This program provides services to DCFS clients Based Youth ServicesfG'r°isi, services to youth referred by the Department of who lack adequate housing. A home Child and Family Services. Some of these interventionist helps families by locating and .intervention services include mentoring, role modeling, and securing appropriate housing. In addition to the 24 hour crisis intervention social skills building. services that are available to youth and their 7. family AdvocatelSARs family,this program provides community-based �ram This program provides intensive in-home 2. family Habilitation P interventions including:formal assessment, This program promotes permanency by services for abused and neglected children and counseling, case management,weekly teen maintaining,strengthening, and safeguarding their families. This 6-9 month contract serves groups, and linkages with other services in the functioning of families. These in-home intact families in order to prevent out-of-home Macon and Piatt Counties. services work to increase the parent's ability to placements. provide adequate childcare and to improve 11. Unified Delinquency parenting skills. This includes helping families Intervention Service (UDIS) during times of crisis. This program works with moderate to high risk Jo juvenile offenders and is a community-based 3. Visitation Program alternative to the Department of Corrections. Service provided to DCFS clients who are Services include one-on-one advocacy, groups, working towards reunification with their children = case management, linkage services, who have been removed from the household } rw..,;._ ..__ .:.-,..a ; ,. . _ individual/family counseling, and educational due to abuse and/or neglect. Services include =: consultation. transportation to and from visitation and supervision of visitation between familyY�. Corrinrunity AccesslkeDeploy members. ~ Community based program designed to deliver intensive in-home services to high-risk juvenile 4. Extended Family support offenders and their families. Some of these Prvgr'ulrt 8. Basic eenterl&isis Shelter services include assistance with housing,Services offered to homes that are not open Temporary shelter for youth ages 12-17. budgeting, paying bills, housekeeping, etc. DCFS cases but are relative placements that Including housing and structured programming Services also include assessment,treatment for up to 21 days, intended to begin re-building planning, and family counseling. This program require intervention to maintain the placement. stabilizes the family in order to reduce the These services include assistance with court family connections to avoid future runaways, lock-outs, or youth homelessness. number of commitments to the Department of ou Proceedings, purchase of supplies or necessities y Corrections. for children, and referral linkages. 9. Comprehensive Youth 13. Safety NetWorks 5. Youth in Transition Program Deve10Pment1Cr1s1,:V Intervention Short-term in-home interventions for youth ages Case management program designed for Twenty-four hour services offered to youth who 6-17. Services will address family problems that adolescents who are at risk of becoming are runaway, locked-out, or considered beyond have destabilized the household due to youth's homeless upon emancipation from the control within their household. Referrals are illegal behavior and police contact. Special Department of Children and Family Services. made through the Police Departments, local emphasis is placed on youth living in the target These services include: assistance with locating County Sheriff's Departments, and schools. geographical location and residing with relatives housing, employment, and other items or non-parent caregivers. necessary to sustain independence within the community.