2005 Program Highlights
Youth and Family Counseling
The program offers free, confidential, theraputic based consuling services to youth from ages nine through seventeen years. Advocacy, mentoring and group recreational activities are also available to encourage social interaction and community awareness. There are two staff members in the Youth and Family Counseling Department, which include a Counselor and Advocate. Referrals and accepted from Parents/Guardians, schools, churches, Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Juvenile Probabtion, and various other community agencies.
The program is designed to address the following areas:
- Individual Counseling
- Family Counseling
- Group Counseling
- Advocacy and Mentoring Services
- Community Cousultation, Collaboration and Referrals
- Parent Outreach
- Group Recreational Services
Purpose
Serve the needs of troubled youth 9 through 17 and their families in the Southwest Rockford quadrant. To redirect the lives of today's youth and families by providing crisis intervention to at risk youth and youth currently invovlved with the juvenile system. To promote behavior modification, attitude, awareness, anger management and redirecting individuals live to more positive goals and aspirations.
Youth Services (Social Growth & Development)
Youth Services include a wide variety of services to children age 5 to 12. It is staffed by a program coodinator, child care workers and volunteers and includes age appropriate developmental activities, activities before and after school, team basketball, tutoring, recreational computer lab, arts and crafts, open gym, special events, parties, social events, breakfast/snack, and cooking.
School buses pick up and drop off children before and after school. Children receive breakfast before the buses take them to school and then after school they are provided with a snack. They participate in activities, demonstrate interest in completing homework, increase knowledge of their community, increase social, physical, and emotional skills through participation in team sports, and engage in socializling during activities like cooking, parties, social events, arts and crafts, computer lab, and open gym.
Purpose
To assist and encourage children at risk to develop accomplishments, social skills, and promote physical and emotional adjustment that builds good sportsmanship, high moral standards, self esteem, and a sense of fairness.
Emergency Support Services
It is the hope of St. Elizabeth Catholic Community Center that all community members in emergency situations meet their basic needs for food through the soup kitchen serving hot meals and the food pantry providing 2 days of food for the families, clothing through our clothes closet, shelter, personal safety, help obtaining LIHEAP and emergency assitance in a timely manner.
Purpose
Support ervices/Emergency Services provides for the basic needs of the people in our community. We recognize that meeting the immediate needs of people in crisis is the first of potentially many steps. Emergency service determines a continuum of care and see our program as an integral part of the community emergency response system.
Daycare - Early Childhood Development
We offer quality day care to low income children age 3-5; especially newly arriving families from Mexico transitioning into American culture. The Hispanic participants in the Pre-school programmake up 90% of the children. We are committed to helping whole families and particularly children since out founding in 1911. More recently through a United Way assessment survey and out own limited survey we have responed to the child care needs of families. We have provided learning activities, problem solving, music and movement, language and much more. All activities are age appropriate developmental and academic activities, physical development experiences and values development.
Children attend day care regularly, demonstrate improved academic skills, improved physical abilities, improved age appropriate social and emotional skills, improved knowledge of their community, and improved ability to choose nutritional food. Children develop age appropriate development in each skill area, verbalize their emotions, are academically prepared to begin school, and demonstrate appropriate interactions in large and small group settings.
Purpose
To provide cultural and academic exposure in preparation for kidergarten all year around. We offer day care, allowing parents to go to work and become viable members of society.
