Dropout Prevention | ONE HOPE UNITED - Behavioral Health
Provides outpatient counseling services for youth and families. Offers both in home and more traditional outpatient approach. Services include: - SPARCS (Structured Psychotherapy for Adolescents Responding to Chronic Stress) - psycho-educational group for teens (12-18) who have scary or upsetting things happen and find it difficult to feel or act the same as before. Program runs an hour per session for 16 weeks. - It helps teens understand how scary or upsetting things can affect feelings, thinking, and behavior. - Teaches ways to reduce negative behaviors, improve focus, decrease high-risk behaviors and improve relationships with others. - It helps teens cope better during times of stress, improve self-esteem, build more supportive relationships, improve awareness, and create meaning in their lives. - It allows teens to meet other peers who have had similar experiences. - DCFS (Department of Children & Family Service) Counseling Services - provide a strengths-based approach to improve the symptoms for which the client was referred. No cost to DCFS-referred families - Individual counseling/therapeutic services for parents, children and adolescents. - Counseling/therapeutic services for foster parents to provide support and guidance. - Family counseling/therapeutic services. - Group counseling/therapeutic services. - Trauma Focused Services. - IPS (Intensive Placement Stabilization) - provides intensive support to high-risk children in foster care to stabilize placements and prevent entry into higher levels of care - Brief individual and family counseling for foster and natural families - Placement stabilization services - Crisis intervention - Community linkage - Foster parent support - School intervention and tutoring - Court advocacy - Mentoring services - Enrichment activities - DCFS Intact Counseling Services - family-based, in-home treatment program working with intact families - Individual and family counseling - Parent effectiveness training - Behavior modification - Community service linkage - Trauma Focused Services - Outpatient Counseling - focuses on issues of acute stress reactions and reactions to trauma, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, school problems, behavioral problems, parenting, and family conflict. Services are offered both in home and through the more traditional outpatient approach
Services
Date of Last Formal Update
10/24/2023
Data provided by
Lake County 211
Physical Address
1790 Nations Drive, Gurnee, IL 60031
Hours
Service Hours Vary Administrative Hours Monday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Tuesday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Wednesday:8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Thursday: 8:30AM - 5:00 PM Friday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Application process
Call or visit center for "program details" or "program curriculum" Documents required: - Photo ID - Proof of health insurance, if applicable - Referral may be required for contracted programs (DCFS, etc.)
Eligibility
SPARCS: Any adolescent between the ages of 12-18 who have had scary or upsetting things happen and find it difficult to feel or act the same as before. DCFS Counseling Services: Children and families who have open cases with DCFS, including Child Placement and Child Reunification. Individuals and families may be currently experiencing emotional, behavioral, social, parenting or mental health issues that negatively impact family functioning. IPS: Clients served under a POS specialized foster care contract who are not currently stepping down to a DCFS or POS traditional or relative foster care placement are not eligible. Must be a ward of DCFS; reside in or return to Local Area Network (LAN) 53, 56, 57, 84 or 85; and 3; AND meet one of the following criteria: - Child is in relative or traditional foster care and requires more clinically intensive services. The client’s caseworker is fulfilling his or her obligation regarding the provision of services. - Child is in relative or traditional foster care and is at risk of moving to another foster care placement or more restrictive placement. - Child lives in self-selected placement and the caseworker has determined that IPS services may help the child or youth maintain that placement. - Child is placed in Illinois via an interstate compact. - Child is in a more restrictive setting such as a group home, residential treatment or corrections facility, and requires time-limited additional services and interventions in order to successfully 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 (Cook County only). - 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 Screening, Assessment and Support Services (SASS) program or whose needs exceed the service timelines of the SASS provider. - Clients served in traditional or relative foster care whose needs can be met by services available through DCFS payment policy, traditional or relative foster care contracts, or casework staff. DCFS Intact: DCFS intact families in Cook County. Outpatient Counseling: Call program for details
Languages
None
Agency info
ONE HOPE UNITED
Provides child care and general health services