Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services (CCBYS)
Our CCBYS program aims to divert youth from the juvenile justice and the child welfare systems. OHU staff work closely with local schools and community agencies to maximize resources available to at-risk youth. The program provides 24-hour crisis responses to homeless, runaway, and “locked out” youth who are between the ages of 11-17.
Short-term outreach-based counseling is available to families in the community where youth are at risk of out-of-home placement.
Services
We Offer
- 24-hour crisis response support
- Assessment of family’s strengths and needs
- Home-based family counseling
- Assistance in accessing community resources
- Aggression Replacement Training (ART): Evidence-based anger management and life skills group process provided as a component of services.
Who is Eligible?
Families with youth ages 11 – 17 years old who:
- Are homeless
- Have run away from home
- Are locked out of their home
- Reside in our coverage area.
Youth may not be wards of the Illinois Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS).
Coverage area includes the following counties: Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Hamilton, Jasper, Jefferson, Lawrence, Richland, Wabash, and Wayne, or Warren Township and Benton Township in Lake County.
Cost
This is no cost to families in the program.
Referrals
We accept self-referrals and referrals from schools, police, juvenile courts, DCFS, community and neighborhood organizations, and other social service agencies.
