Youth Services

Help for Youth Who Are in Trouble with the Legal System

• Redeploy Illinois - Reduced commitment to IDJJ; Improve outcomes for youth and families.
• Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS) - 11 to 17 year olds at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system.

Runaways/Lock-outs/Homeless Youth

• Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS) - 11 to 17 year olds who have run away from home or have been kicked out of their home.
• Homeless Youth - 14 to 23 year olds who lack safe and stable housing and cannot return home.

Youth Employment and Academic Assistance 

• Teen REACH (TR)
• Community Youth Employment (CYEP)
• COVID-19 Summer Youth Employment Program

Teen Pregnancy Prevention

• Teen Pregnancy, Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)
• Office of Adolescent Health- Tier 1B Teen Pregnancy Prevention (OAH-TPP)

Substance Abuse Prevention

• Substance Abuse Prevention Program (SAPP)
• Partners for Success (PFS)
• Illinois Prevention Prescription Drug/Opioid Overdose-Related Deaths

Community Initiatives

• Community Youth Services (CYS)
• Juvenile Justice Councils (JJC)
  

More Information & Resources

• Office of Community and Positive Youth Development
  • Bureau of Youth Intervention Services
  • Bureau of Positive Youth Development
• Illinois Collaboration on Youth (ICOY)
• Prevention First Inc.
• The National Runaway Safeline
• Chicago Coalition for the Homeless