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Beatrice Caffrey Youth Service

Comprehensive Community Based Youth Service

The Comprehensive Community Based Youth Service, (C.C.B.Y.S.), serves
youth/families residing on the southeast side of Chicago.

The purpose of the program is the diversion of youth/families from involvement with
either the child welfare and or juvenile justice systems. Our main objective is the
reduction, if not elimination of out of home placements for youth because of their
refusal to return home and/or their parents’ refusal to allow them back into the
home.

Services are provided twenty-four hours per day seven days per week and range
from crisis intervention to short-term counseling and case management.

Crisis Intervention services are provided twenty-four hours per day seven days per
week. Follow up services include but are not limited to the following; a) sixty minute
face-to-face response to crisis, b) initial and on-going assessment, c) individual,
family and group counseling services, d) case management services, e) family
mediation, f) community outreach, g) advocacy services, h) temporary out-of home
placement assistance if warranted, i)service plan development/implementation, j)
referral and linkage to other needed services, k) case consultation, l) case closure
with recommendations.