Comprehensive Community Based Youth Services (CCBYS) serves youth ages 10 to 17 years of age who are at risk of involvement in the child welfare and/or juvenile justice system. Youth are provided a continuum of services according to their needs. A 24-hour crisis intervention response system is available in emergency situations for referrals from the police, courts, and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). All youth receiving these services have included in their goals: family preservation, reunifications, or independence.
The mandated service populations for this program are:
- Youth who have been taken into limited custody by the police as potential minors requiring authoritative intervention because they are absent from home without parental consent, or beyond the control of parents resulting in substantial or immediate danger to their physical safety, or unable to return home because the parents refuse to take custody.
- Youth absent from home without parental consent or are beyond the control of their parents, or whose parents have refused to take custody and are referred by DCFS field offices, child protective teams, or the State Central Register.
- Self-referred homeless youth under the age of 18 including all the same parameters listed above.
The goal of the program is to keep the youth with their own family, in their own school, and in their own community.
