The Bureau of Youth Intervention Services strives to offer prevention, diversion, intervention, and treatment services targeting youth to support families in crisis, prevent juvenile delinquency, encourage academic achievement and to divert youth at risk of involvement in the child welfare, juvenile justice or correctional systems.
Boards and Commissions
- Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission
- Illinois Redeploy Oversight Board.
Programs and Services
Links and Resources
- Illinois Collaboration on Youth (ICOY)
- Juvenile Justice Initiative
- Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention
- DCFS web site
- Runaway & Homeless Youth programs
- Youth Network Council
- Tutor Mentor Connections
- Boys and Girls Clubs of America
- YMCA of Metro Chicago
- Illinois ACT Now Coalition
- Illinois Center for Violence Prevention
- National Service Learning
- Illinois Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs, Inc.
- Child Care & Early Education
- The Forum for Youth Investment
- Prevention First Inc.
- Harvard Educ Research
- Illinois 21st Century
- US Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Finding a Basic Center
- Runaway Switchboard (Info and number)
- Homeless Youth Services
- Employment Security Website
- Directory of Free Clinics in Illinois
- Illinois Student Assistant Commission
- Blueprints for Violence Prevention - Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado
- Center for Problem Oriented Policing, US Department of Justice - Problem Specific Guides
- Community Guide to Helping America's Youth - Office of the First Lady
- Exemplary and Promising Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools Programs 2001 (pdf) - Safe, Disciplined and Drug-Free Schools Expert Panel, U.S. Department of Education
- Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center - Justice Research Statistics Association
- National Youth Gang Center - OJJDP Strategic Planning Tool
- Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising - A Report to the United States Congress, University of Maryland
- Strengthening America's Families - Effective Family Programs for Prevention of Delinquency, Department of Health Promotion and Education, University of Utah
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
- Truancy Prevention-Empowering Students, Schools, and Communities - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- What Works Clearinghouse - US Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences
Publications
