BUILD provides young people struggling in school with the tools and support they need to succeed, graduate, and advance to college and careers. Tutoring, test prep, college campus tours, career exposure and consistent mentoring offer low-income, often-overlooked students the opportunity to be the first in their families to go to college, graduate and develop careers.

BUILD provides young people struggling in school with the tools and support they need to succeed, graduate, and advance to college and careers. Tutoring, test prep, college campus tours, career exposure and consistent mentoring offer low-income, often-overlooked students the opportunity to be the first in their families to go to college, graduate and develop careers.

Short term therapeutic approach to reducing suspension time in schools. Can be used for alcohol/drug, aggression, and/or sexting violations. Typically 6 sessions with a licensed therapist and includes the following topics: - Comprehensive assessment - Psychology education - Counseling on decision making - Coping skills Sessions are conducted on an individual basis but also offers groups from time to time on specific issues, such as: - Alcohol/Drug Use - Coping Skills - Decision Making - Anger Management Tools - Respect for Self & Others Sessions are conducted at participating schools that the student attends.

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

Intervention/prevention services to students at-risk of dropping out of school. Services include assessment, referrals to outside agencies, mentoring, and case management.