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- Crisis Intervention: 24 hour crisis response. Goal of family preservation and/or reunification by intervening and linking families with appropriate community services - System of Care: Supplemental services for children and foster families to prevent placement disruption. - Unified Delinquency Intervention Service: Provides services to clients at risk of being placed in Department of Corrections. Intense services weekly to maintain client in the community and to prevent re-offending. McDonough, Hancock and Fulton Counties. - Community Based Family Services: Program aimed at reducing truancy, expulsions, and suspensions from school. Target population did change: work with the Regional Office of Education now. Assist with tutoring and family goals. Three to six month program and not mandatory. McDonough/Fulton County. Target age is 10-17 years of age - Extended Family Support Program (EFSP): Provide short term services, advocacy, support, intervention and family mediation for children who are not part of the formal child welfare system and for their relative caregivers with whom they are residing who were referred by the Department. Must call DCFS hotline but it is NOT considered a hotline call. $500 for assistance. Projected average length of services: 3 to 6 months. McDonough/Fulton County. Have family call Catholic Charities (Carrie Depoy). - Counseling: - LAN: Three month program-McDonough/Fulton Counties - Wraparound planning is a dynamic process which is based on individualized, strength based, needs-driven planning and service delivery. A Wraparound Plan is developed by the Child and Family Team after they have agreed on the strengths and needs of the child and family and the specific services/interventions which need to be put in place. The shares responsibility, expertise, and mutual support while designing creative services and choosing service providers who meet the needs of children and families across home, school and community. Wraparound Plans are continually reviewed and modified based upon the child and family’s developing strengths and evolving needs. Wraparound interventions are flexible because the approach is multi-faceted, taking all aspects of the child’s history and current life situation into account. A requirement for wraparound planning is the formation of a Child and Family Team. Child and Family Team membership involves key stakeholders in the lives of the child and family. Those stakeholders include friends, relatives, clergy, interested community agencies, social workers, counselors, previous caregivers, etc. Team membership is unique for each child and family; the child and family select members. Representatives of the community become involved in wraparound planning early in the process to support a child remaining in the community to the community. Agency Sharing: WCICIL: Work with individuals with any type of disability – assist in independent living. - Adaptations to homes - Independent living skills training - Work in six counties: Adams, Brown, Pike, Schuyler, Hancock and McDonough - In Macomb on Wednesday and Fridays and all other days in the Quincy office
McDonough County Housing Authority: Need applicants for Fitch Manor in Bushnell for seniors and those with disabilities Dave Weaver will be leaving the Housing Authority soon to continue an internship with the Lieutenant Governor’s office. Bushnell Greenbriar Apartments: A recycling dumpster was placed at the housing and is being used and used correctly. Diversity Club through the Housing Authority: Next Monday night, the group will be at City Hall with a petition urging the Counsel to develop a city sidewalk construction plan to assist those with disabilities. Work Incentive Project: Questions on work and how it affects social security disability benefits. Serves ages 14-64 in working and SSI benefits. Brochures available. Carl Sandburg College-Bushnell Extension Center: Adult Education and GED classes currently running. Every 8 weeks classes are running. Open enrollment in the literacy programs in the Bushnell area. Spoon River College: GED Classes are Monday and Wednesday from 1-4 and Tuesday and Thursday from 5-8 and 9-noon. Lower level of the SRC Macomb campus. Call 833-6017 to register. Open enrollment - Also have evening classes at the Rushville Extension Center University of Illinois Extension Office: - January 23 rd is the Master Gardner Training starts - Offering a financial planning training on November 23 rd (Elementary – High School educators) - Home Alone Training just completed (31 in attendance) North Central Behavioral Systems: Clinical Supervisor position will be open in November in the Fulton County office Dental Center: Eagleview Health Systems – Macomb Office Hoping to open on December 1 st . Fundraising dinner TBA/Tickets will be $50 through Magnolias FVCC: November 8 th workshop entitled: “Children, Families & You: Tying it All Together - Registration deadline is October 29 th - Breakouts include; Child Abuse Reporting, Self Defense, Elder Sensitivity, Violence and Pornography and Impact on Relationships, and Vicarious Traumatization of Treatment Teams working with Children. Keynote Speaker topics are: Effects of Domestic Violence on Children and Gender Socialization. Elder Sensitivity Training: Partner agencies are University of Illinois Extension, Alternatives for the Older Adult, McDonough District Hospital, and FVCC. Contact Cheryl at 309-837-4398 Prevent Child Abuse Illinois: Work with substance, mental health, domestic violence providers DCFS office out of Peoria Preschool for All: Family Fun Night at Skateland with four childcare centers (great response).
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