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Programs & Services List
- Armour Child and Family Therapy Services
- College and Career Access Program (CCAP)
- Extended Family Support
- Family Child Care Homes
- Family Foster Care
- Grand Family Support
- Group Homes
- Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
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- Lake County Family Service Center
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- Wendy's Wonderful Kids
Extended Family Support
The Extended Family Support Program provides home-based, family-centered casework services to families in which one or more children have been abandoned in the care of a relative caregiver (extended family member). The program is designed to prevent children from entering state custody by enabling extended family members to establish a legal care-giving relationship (private guardianship) with the child and to obtain the resources necessary to meet their family's needs.
Community Served: Cook County
Participants Served: 106
Outcomes:
- Families achieved guardianship of child-relatives 74% of the time.
- Families received Public Aid benefit for their child-relatives 71% of the time.
- 100% of the children do not enter the foster care system.
Clients in ChildServ's Extended Family Support Program say:
- "I was so happy that they care so much. Just with getting beds, stuff for the kids that I was not able to get."
- "They helped me get my nephew's birth certificate."