Outreach Services

Provides supplemental services to children and foster families to prevent placement disruption, including assessment, case coordination, linkage and direct services to children who have a critical need for more intensive service.

• Referrals accepted from foster parents, DCFS, and private agency foster care providers
• 90% of satisfaction survey respondents reported being either satisfied or very satisfied with overall experience of program
• Available in Tazewell, Woodford, McLean, Fulton, McDonough, Henderson, Warren, Knox, Henry, Rock Island and Mercer counties

Provides services to relatives caring for children via referral from DCFS whose parents are unable or unwilling to care for them.

The program offers services to support kinship care and avoid disruption of the family placement. The primary service of the Extended Family Support program is assisting relatives to obtain legal guardianship of the child for school enrollment, child care assistance, medical services, insurance coverage and public assistance.

• All referrals come from Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
• 42% of closed cases resulted in positive guardianship transfer
• 100% of satisfaction survey respondents reported being either satisfied or very satisfied with overall experience of program
• Available in Dewitt, McLean, Tazewell, Woodford, Peoria, Champaign, Vermilion, Fulton, McDonough, Hancock, Henderson, Warren, Knox, Henry, Rock Island, Mercer, Ford, Iroquois, Logan, Mason, and Menard Counties

Provides counseling, advocacy, monitoring, case management and cognitive skills groups to individuals involved with the probation system in McLean County.

• All referrals come from Court Services
• Available in McLean County

Care Link is a community-based program supported financially by local parishes and churches in the city of Rock Island. CYFS provides basic assessment and authorization of financial assistance for family basic needs.

• All referrals come from local churches
• 100% of satisfaction survey respondents reported being either satisfied or very satisfied with overall experience of program
• Available in Rock Island County

Offers housing services to Norman house members

• Family must have an open DCFS case
• Family must be Norman certified for inadequate housing

Services provided by HAP are as follows:

• Educate families on how to locate and apply for housing
• Assist families on how to apply for emergency shelter, income assistance and other community services and resources
• Identify and resolve housing problems before they reach a crisis stage