Helps children, adolescents and their families use creative outlets such as painting, drawing and sculpture along with traditional verbal therapy to address complex issues of trauma and grief, resolve behavioral difficulties through development of positive coping skills and to rebuild more trusting and sustained relationships with peers and family. Licensed, graduate-level art therapists present on-site individual, group and family art therapy and provide collaborative art services in the community through partnerships with the Chicago Park District and Chicago Public Schools.

addresses the problem of substance abuse and delinquency in youth through the development and enhancement of pro-social skills that heighten self-esteem, as opposed to the factors contributing to thep redisposition of drug use, gang affiliation and violent tendencies. Presented as a 17-week curriculum to at-risk youth in schools and after school settings, the program focuses on the social and psychological factors that promote the initiation and early stages of substance use/abuse. Students are taught to resist direct peer pressure to smoke, drink, or use drugs.

offers a wide range of services that assist parents in raising healthy families including parent support groups, parent advocacy services, parent workshops, parent psycho-educational groups, and the Parent Education Program that includes an eight-week parenting skills series, three home visits, and on-going support group.

provides screening, assessment and linkage services to youth in the juvenile justice system who are identified as experiencing a major mental illness. The focus of services is to intervene with an array of intensive, community-based services to link the youth and support his or her family with appropriate referrals / intervention, with the goals of maintaining the child or adolescent at home in the community, and preventing more serious involvement with the Detention Center and Juvenile Justice System.