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Youth Programs Family
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Housing
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| Neighborhood House has implemented a wide range of social services,
economic and neighborhood development programs aimed at meeting the special needs of youth
groups in the East St. Louis/ St. Clair County area. |
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Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Service System provides 24-hour Crisis
Intervention, Advocacy and Counseling to youth and their families in the Metro-East area.
Youth Service Counselors respond to calls from the local police stations for youth who are
experiencing problems at home. Through intensive counseling, the staff assist families in
working through their problems. The program has been successful in keeping 97% of its
families together. |
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Reach - The Teen Reach Program also provides a variety of
recreation/education and social development activities for children and youth in the
community. Activities include arts and crafts, sports, tutoring and homework assistance,
leadership training, field trips, conflict resolution and cultural arts. Over 500 children
and youth participate annually in the summer and after-school activities, which are
provided at four sites in the community. |
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| Community
Services is a “Community Organizing” program that provides staff support
and resources in an effort to organize youth and parents to develop and operate programs
for youth and to address major problems facing the youth in the greater East St. Louis
area. |
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| Disproportionate
Minority Confinement Program - Provides staff support to St. Clair County Youth
Coalition to plan and develop strategies to reduce the level of confinement of youth
Neighborhood House acts as the Fiscal Agent for the St. Clair County Youth Coalition,
which it is a member of. Funding is through the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission. |
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| Redeploy
Illinois Program - provides comprehensive evaluations to those eligible
youth and provides evidence-based treatment alternatives in the least restrictive way
possible to reduce the number of youth committed to the Department of Corrections (DOC) by
25% while using dollars saved to provide individualized services to address the needs of
those youth and their families. Any juvenile offender who has not committed a class-X
felony is eligible. |
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| For More Information, please contact: |
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| Lisa Graves at (618)
874-0777 ext 1113 or email lisag@compu-type.net |
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