R2010-137 AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURE OF CITY FUNDS

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1. Advococy P�ogrom 6. Normon Housing Advocacy 10. Compnehensirr Community This program provides intensive one-on-one This program provides services to DCFS clients Bosed Youth SeI'v%Ces/CI'isis � 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 II services include mentoring, role modeling, and securing appropriate housing. In addition to the 24 hour crisis intervention i social skills building. services that are available to youth and their 7. fomily Advocote/SARs family, this program provides community-based 2. Fnmi>y Hvbilitotion Progrom This program provides intensive in-home 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 9roups, 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 Inte�vention Service (UDIS) during times of crisis. This program works with moderate to high risk juvenile offenders and is a community-based 3. Visitotion Progrom �"" '� altemative to the Department of Corrections. Seivice 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 ��. individual/family counseling, and educational due to abuse and/or neglect. Services include . consultation. transportation to and from visitation and ' ,�, supervision of visitation between family 12. Co111/I1uIl%ty ACCes.s/ReD6p/oy members. Community based program designed to deliver intensive in-home services to high-risk juvenile offenders and their families. Some of these 8. Bosic Center/Crisis Shelter services include assistance with housing, Temporary shelter for youth ages 12-17. budgeting, paying bills, housekeeping, etc. Services offered to homes that are not open Services also include assessment,treatment DCFS cases but are refative lacements that Including housing and structured programming p 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, number of commitments to the Department of proceedings, purchase of supplies or necessities lock-outs, or youth homelessness. Corrections. for children, and referral linkages. �. 13. Scrfety NetWorks 5. Youth in Tronsition Progrom 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.