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Provides intensive intact family case management services for which DCFS has identified that abuse and neglect has occurred within the family, but safety measures can be in place to keep the children in the care of the family.

Provides short-term assistance to relatives or close family supporters (fictive kin) who have been caring for a child/children informally. Relative caregivers receive assistance in obtaining guardianship of the child for whom they are providing care. Also helps resolve any crisis the family may be facing and prepares the relative caregivers to achieve permanency for the child as well as for them. Services aim to prevent children's entry into out-of-home care and help children achieve permanency.

Additionally, families are provided with financial assistance, if needed, to address needs such as clothing for the child(ren), additional needed furniture to accommodate the child(ren) such as mattresses, beds, and linen, and helping the child(ren) to be enrolled in school by acquiring birth certificates of child(ren). Also helps family identify appropriate additional benefits to which they may be entitled.

Services may include:

-- Assistance in obtaining guardianship.

-- Education on navigating the court system and proceedings.

-- Help obtaining a child-only grant, subsidized day care and other entitlements.

-- Guidance on enrolling children in local schools.

-- Assistance with financial and housing issues.

-- Cash and in-kind assistance to help meet the basic needs of the family.

-- Referral linkages to other needed community resources including legal services, and medical and mental health services.

Provides trauma-informed in-home and telehealth therapeutic services to families with adopted children. Therapeutic services include family and individual therapy, group therapy and activities, caregiver psychoeducation/coaching, case management and advocacy.

Recruits and licenses homes for Traditional and Specialized foster care placement in the north-central counties of Illinois.

Foster parents cooperate with the court to set goals that ideally results in the return of the child to their family. If that is not possible, foster parents are asked to commit to permanency for the child.

Specialized foster care programs work to meet the special needs of physically, behaviorally, and emotionally challenged children and the foster families serving them. Provides intensive case management, comprehensive mental health services along with medical, developmental, and educational service specific to the child's needs.

Offers a combination of weekly support groups and parenting classes designed to strengthen the role of fathers and male caregivers, promote positive parenting, and prevent child abuse and neglect.

The 12-week support group series covers topics such as identity and purpose, self-care, and overcoming personal barriers, with options for in-person or virtual participation.

Parenting classes consist of an 8-session series focused on self-worth, child development, effective discipline, and creating safe, nurturing home environments.

All participants complete a comprehensive intake, and program staff provide referrals to community resources and case management as needed. Upon successful completion, participants in both services receive a certificate of completion.

Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes

- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.

EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.

Provides trauma-informed in-home and telehealth therapeutic services to families with adopted children. Therapeutic services include family and individual therapy, group therapy and activities, caregiver psychoeducation/coaching, case management and advocacy.

Helps families in crisis by offering programs that work to stabilize families through guidance, emotional support, and basic necessities. Caseworker services are provided to families and seek to preserve families to enable children to remain safely at home and avoid separation and/or placement of the children. Referrals to other programs or community agencies are conducted as appropriate.

Intact Services are tailored to a family's particular crisis and are provided to prevent children from coming into the foster care system. Services may include:

-- Parenting classes.

-- Emergency caretakers.

-- Housing assistance.

-- Individual and family counseling.

-- Child development education.

-- Respite care.

-- Daycare.

-- Employment placement.

-- Household management education.

-- Emergency food assistance.

-- Community resource referrals.

A short-term, in-home, community-based, intervention program (6-9 months) that works with families who have been identified by DCFS as at risk for foster care placement.

Designed to help families identify strengths, set goals and modify behaviors that put their children at risk, with the goal of safely maintaining the children in the home.

Works with families and caregivers who are at risk due to a report of abuse or neglect. Provides an all-encompassing range of home-based case management services. These services are designed to resolve these issues so that children and youth can remain safely at home.

An assessment identifies needs and provides services that include but are not limited to:

- Home based case management.
- Counseling.
- Parent education.
- Protective daycare.
- Substance abuse treatment.
- Mental health services.
- Emergency assistance.
- Advocacy.
- Healthcare.
- Assistance with transportation to services.

Provides trauma-informed in-home and telehealth therapeutic services to families with adopted children. Therapeutic services include family and individual therapy, group therapy and activities, caregiver psychoeducation/coaching, case management and advocacy.

Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes

- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.

EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.

Provides trauma-informed in-home and telehealth therapeutic services to families with adopted children. Therapeutic services include family and individual therapy, group therapy and activities, caregiver psychoeducation/coaching, case management and advocacy.

Provides guidance to keep families together and to keep children safe from abuse or neglect. IFS partners with these families to resolve the issues that create risk of harm for their children. IFS helps strengthen families to accomplish their goals by providing counseling, in-home parent education, and linkage and referral to needed community services.

Works with families and caregivers who are at risk due to a report of abuse or neglect. Provides an all-encompassing range of home-based case management services. These services are designed to resolve these issues so that children and youth can remain safely at home.

An assessment identifies needs and provides services that include but are not limited to:

- Home based case management.
- Counseling.
- Parent education.
- Protective daycare.
- Substance abuse treatment.
- Mental health services.
- Emergency assistance.
- Advocacy.
- Healthcare.
- Assistance with transportation to services.

Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes

- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.

EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.

Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes

- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.
- Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
- Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.

EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.