Services
we offer
- Brief individual and family counseling for foster and natural families (as approved)
- Placement stabilization services
- Crisis intervention
- Community linkage
- Foster parent support
- School intervention and tutoring
- Court advocacy
- Mentoring services
- Enrichment activities
Who is eligible?
To be eligible to receive IPS services, a child or youth must:
1) be a youth in care in Illinois and
2) reside in our coverage area.
Coverage area includes the following counties: Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Cook, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Hamilton, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Kankakee, Lawrence, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Moultrie, Randolph, Richland, Shelby, St. Clair, Wabash, Washington, and Wayne.
Additionally, they must meet one of the following criteria:
- Child is a youth in care and requires more clinically intensive services. The client’s caseworker is fulfilling his or her obligation regarding the provision of services.
- Youth/Child is in relative or traditional foster care and is at risk of moving to another placement or more restrictive placement.
- Child is in a more restrictive setting such as a group home, residential treatment or corrections facility, and requires time-limited extra services and interventions to transition to relative or traditional foster care.
- A notice of request for removal of the child from the home has been made by the foster parent.
- Child is stepping down to the parent’s home from a public or private institution and needs time-limited assistance to successfully facilitate the transition.
- Child needs continuing or expanded post-hospitalization services that are not part of the Mobile Crisis Response (MCR) program.
