Hanover Township Youth and Family Services and Elgin High School Partnership Michele Capio Pam Horn

MISSION The mission of the U-46 School and Community Alliance is to create, integrate and leverage existing and new school/community partnerships that develop a full continuum of systematic interventions based on data. It encompasses three intervention tiers: Systems for promoting healthy development and preventing problems Systems for responding to problems as soon after onset as is feasible Systems for providing intensive care

40,744 Students 3,772 Personnel 57 Schools COMMUNITIES SERVED School District U-46 serves children in Bartlett (9) and portions of Carol Stream (1), Elgin (23), Hanover Park (4), Hoffman Estates (2), Schaumburg, South Elgin (5), St. Charles, Streamwood (9), Wayne (1) and West Chicago

Boys and Girls Club of Elgin*Centro de Informacion* Community Crisis Center*Crossroads Kids Club* Easter Seals*Elgin Police Department* Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area*Fox Valley Pregnancy Center*Fox Valley Volunteer Hospice*Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois*Hanover Township Youth and Family Services*Kenneth Young*Renz Center*Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System*Taylor Family YMCA*The Y*WAYS*West Ridge Community Church*Youth Leadership Academy

OperationsTier 2/3High School Violence Prevention

 Creation of Guidelines for Schools and Agencies Working Together  Agency Partners are active members of Secondary Systems Teams (9)  Trained Agency Partners in Social Academic Instructional Groups/DPR Data  25 partners are sitting on teams and/or providing SAIG in schools  Use of the DPR (Daily Progress Report) for progress-monitoring

 PBIS Universal Implementation FY10  PBIS Tier 2/3 Implementation FY11  Added PBIS Counselor position FY12  Community Partnerships with Streamwood Behavioral Health and Hanover Township Youth and Family connected to PBIS

Our Mission The mission of Hanover Township Youth and Family Services is the prevention of juvenile delinquency and the promotion of positive development in young people. This is accomplished by providing services which help to strengthen families, to provide outreach to children and teens at risk of school failure and delinquency, and to contribute to the building up of a healthier community for all Township youth

 Funding: Property Taxes, Two Small Grants  Has had a collaborative relationship with U-46 for over 15 years  More collaboration between Clinical and Outreach  Shift in focus two years ago to get into the community

Key elements to the Youth Development approach are the following:  Youth are viewed as a valued and respected asset to society;  Policies and programs focus on the evolving developmental needs and tasks of adolescents, and involve youth as partners rather than clients;  Families, schools and communities are engaged in developing environments that support youth;  Adolescents are involved in activities that enhance their competence, connections, character, confidence and contribution to society;  Adolescents are provided an opportunity to experiment in a safe environment and to develop positive social values and norms; and  Adolescents are engaged in activities that promote self- understanding, self-worth, and a sense of belonging and resiliency.

Pre-test/Post-test

 Move from instructional short-term groups to long-term group mentoring with skill instruction embedded in the mentoring  Increase communication (between deans/facilitators of interventions) and align initiatives  Explore more intensive interventions for students with unmet mental health needs

 Include community agency partners in more training (RENEW/wraparound)  Directory of partners/agencies  Blend initiatives/coordinate across the district  Alternative to suspension expansion  Utilize exemplars in district as examples for other schools  Increase communication/visibility of Alliance