CARE Residential
Our CARE Residential Program uses a trauma-informed approach to help young men ages 10-18 years old heal from past trauma and increase their capacity to engage in healthy, trusting relationships with adults and caregivers. Clients are provided with a safe, structured environment and individualized treatment to help them gain important life skills. They learn to deal with their emotions in a healthy way and increase their motivation to engage in positive decision making.
This program builds on youth strengths and provides opportunities to increase their competencies. We also offer day school on site provided by Banner Northlake School, which is located on the Lake Villa residential program campus.
Who is Eligible?
Young men ages 10-18 referred by DCFS.
Activites
We Offer
We provide a space for youth to have fun and connect with others, empowering them to be their true, authentic selves.
Daily activities include:
- Celebrating holidays, birthdays, or monthly community dinners
- Attending a physical fitness group or using the on-site gym, basketball courts, and 9-hole disc golf course
- Enjoying the outdoors and fishing in the lake
- Joining a music group or spending time in the studio
- Creating something from scratch — a painting, a loaf of bread, a wooden bird house
- Participating in the Youth Council on campus
- Working in our campus job program to gain transferrable skills
- Meeting up with a group to discuss hygiene, excel your social skills, learn about anger management, or other important life topics
- Printing something you designed with our 3D printer
- Challenging your skills phyiscally and/or academically while making new friends
- Playing games with your peers
Off campus activities include:
- Running a community 5K race
- Attending a movie, Broadway play, comic or anime convention
- Eating a turkey leg at the Renaissance Fair
- Catching a Cubs game at Wrigley Stadium
- Testing your skills at Boundless Adventure Rope Course
- Playing laser tag
- Shopping at the mall
- Enjoying the sun and water — swimming, kayaking, laying on the beach
- Spending the day at Six Flags Amusement Park
Our Team
Corey A. Dickson, MPH
Director of Programs
Joined 2017
To be the support for young people that I could’ve benefitted from when I was younger. To be a better person than I was yesterday.
Robinique L. Johnson- Menifee, MS, LCPC
Director of Residential Clinical Services, Northern Region
Joined 2019
I have always had a passion for helping children and families. I strongly believe that when families are given the proper tools to build better lives for themselves and their children, not only will they do so but the impact lasts for generations to come.
Address
Ermit L. Finch Campus
215 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Lake Villa, IL 60046
Phone No
847-245-6500
Business Hours
Weekdays - 9AM to 5PM