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Behavioral Health Services:

Provides treatment for children

who experience emotional

and behavioral problems, as

well as services to the family.

Services are aimed at reducing

emotional distress experienced

by youth while improving rela-

tionships and general function-

ing. Services are provided in

the home and community and

include: Caregiver Connec-

tions, Early Childhood Mental

Health, Family-Based Inter-

vention, Family Leadership,

Mental Health Juvenile Justice,

Outpatient Mental Health Ser-

vices, Tri-County Child & Ado-

lescent Program, School-Based

Services and Screening Assess-

ment & Support Services.

Family Preservation & Place-

ment Services:

gramming aimed at preventing

the placement of children into

foster care after allegations of

abuse or neglect (Intact Family

Services), keeping children

in foster care stable in their

foster homes (System of Care),

offering services to families

under stress who need help to

avoid abusing or neglecting

their children (Differential Re-

sponse), and the recruitment/

licensure of foster parents and

placement of foster children

for the foster care program

Foster Care:

Provides tempo-

rary homes for children and

adolescents who have been re-

moved from their parents due

to abuse or neglect. Services

are given to the children, their

natural parents and current

foster parents. The goal is to

help all foster children find

permanency in their lives,

either through being unified

with their parents or, if that

isn’t possible, through adop-

tion or guardianship with

loving, capable caretakers or

a transition to independent

Good Beginnings:

education and support to

first-time, at-risk pregnant

and parenting young women

in Peoria and Tazewell coun-

ties through home visiting,

prenatal and parenting groups

and Doula services. A Healthy

Families program, all services

are intended to strengthen the

parent/child bond and foster

positive attachments that have

been proven to reduce the

incidences of child abuse and

neglect. As a family-focused,

strength-based program, it

promotes healthy prenatal

and post-natal care, enhanced

parenting skills, self-sufficiency

and linkages to other commu-

Group Home:

Provides 24-hour

care and highly-structured

treatment services in a group

home setting to youth who are

preparing for independence.

The goal is to stabilize their

behaviors so they may return

home or transition to the com-

munity. Intensive, specialized

treatment services are provided

through counseling, psychiatric

assessment and treatment, skill

development and educational

There are several ways to get

involved and help and the Chil-

dren’s Home website tells how to

do it, whether through donations

or volunteering or becoming a

The ultimate goal of the foster

parent program is to help fami-

lies reunite. All foster parents

must be licensed and there are

strict set of guidelines to which

they must adhere.

The Children’s Home uses 100

or so volunteers each year to as-

sist with such things as mentor-

ing, tutoring, office support,

maintenance and fundraising.

For more information about Children’s

Home, including how to donate

money or time, go to www.chail.org.

The band Captain Rat and the Blind Rivets will perform during the Children’s Home Spring Gala.