Children's Home Association of Illinois

Community based counseling and mentoring services supported over 2,336 children and their families. Care is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensure children have a safe, stable Home. Children in crisis experience a reduction in their level of risk for psychiatric hospitalization, return to detention, dcfs involvement, disrupted placement, or homelessness.

Inpatient treatment provides 24 hour a day care to youth who are severely challenged in normal community living. of the 36 children cared for, 100 percent of the time is actively engaged in treatment services. 100 percent of the youth made progress toward treatment goals.

Private special education enables all youth to be successful in the school setting. Education services are available for youth from grade school through high school. Student to teacher ratio is 1:4. We educated 102 children in kiefer school and 18 in academy for autism (afa). 96 percent of kiefer and afa students are demonstrating academic progress in meeting iep goals. 18 kiefer students participated in over 1,500 hours of vocational activities to prepare for employment and explore careers.

Foster care provides temporary, safe family homes for children who have been removed from their parents due to abuse or neglect, while at the same time working towards finding permanent residency for them. In fy 2023, 34 of the children served were successfully adopted and 44 were reunified with their biological family. Overall, 25 percent of all youth served found permanency through adoption, permanent guardianship, or were returned Home. The remaining youth continue to receive care.