Our Programs

A Short Spill About Our Girls' Home Program (Let's Talk About It Girls' Home)

Our girls' home is an open, step-down, Mental Health Behavioral Stabilization program. We provide specialized service in a very intimate setting. Our youth receive hands on IL Skill Training in the community. Our youth also attend school in the community and they can earn unsupervised time in the community by focusing on working towards their goals and working through an orientation phase booklet thru to a phase 3 booklet in the program. Each youth is offered individual and group counseling, where they learn how to cope with the trauma they have endured. We also provide youth with tutoring and academic support. Grade reports and attendance reports are pulled weekly and addressed every Friday during a weekly youth evaluation. We work closed with a team (i.e. parent(s), workers, GAL, Judge, mentors, CASA, pre-adoptive parents and fictive kin) to assist youth with successfully completing our program in a 6 to 9 month period and transitioning to a less restrictive environment (i.e. Home with family or fictive kin, a foster home, a forever home with adoptive parents, an independent living plus program, or independent living in the community in their own housing). We connect youth with community resources and supportive persons that will assist them with navigating long after discharge from our program. Our girls have the privilege and advantage of access to a full salon in the home and scheduled classes around how to care for their skin, hair, nails and feet.

A Short Spill About Our Boys' Home (ACTS II Ministry For Teens)

Our boys' home is an open, step-down, Mental Health Behavioral Stabilization program. We provide specialized service in a very intimate setting. Our youth receive hands on IL Skill Training in the community. Our youth also attend school in the community and they can earn unsupervised time in the community by focusing on working towards their goals and working through an orientation phase booklet thru to a phase 3 booklet in the program. Each youth is offered individual and group counseling, where they learn how to cope with the trauma they have endured. We also provide youth with tutoring and academic support. Grade reports and attendance reports are pulled weekly and addressed every Friday during a weekly youth evaluation. We work closed with a team (i.e. parent(s), workers, GAL, Judge, mentors, CASA, pre-adoptive parents and fictive kin) to assist youth with successfully completing our program in a 6 to 9 month period and transitioning to a less restrictive environment (i.e. Home with family or fictive kin, a foster home, a forever home with adoptive parents, an independent living plus program, or independent living in the community in their own housing). We connect youth with community resources and supportive persons that will assist them with navigating long after discharge from our program. Our boys have the privilege and advantage of access to a basketball hoop at the home and access to a full court at the local YMCA. Due to an overwhelming request our boys also have access to a full array of photography and video equipment with the ability to film, photograph, edit and use of artificial lighting, a mac computer and software. Our young men are having a great time using film to discover all the beauty around them.