Youth Outreach Services

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5910 West Division Street, Chicago, IL 60651, USA

Youth Outreach Services (YOS) is a comprehensive youth service agency serving at-risk to high-risk youth ages 12 to 21 years in Chicago’s west side and northwest communities as well as western suburbs. Since 1959, YOS has promoted the strengths and abilities of youth and families by providing community-based services that empower and enrich each to face life’s challenges with confidence, competence and dignity. We do this by offering over 20 different programs which serve over 4,000 youth per year.
  • YOS helps youth deal with life challenges through individual, group, family and crisis counseling services.
  • YOS offers community-based alternatives to incarceration that keep communities safe, while pointing youth toward success.
  • YOS promotes healthy life skills through community and in-school prevention curricula to help youth be proud of their choices.
  • YOS makes sure youth have safe, stable homes while preparing them for independence, through foster care, transitional living, and independent living programs.

Primary Focus of the Provider

  • Substance Abuse Treatment Services
  • Mental Health Treatment Services
  • Mix of Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Type of Care

  • Mental health treatment
  • Substance abuse treatment
  • Do not treat opiod addiction

Facility Type

  • Outpatient mental health facility
  • Community mental health center

Treatment Approaches

  • Couples/family therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Cognitive/behavioral therapy
  • Dialectical behavioral therapy
  • Trauma therapy
  • Substance abuse counseling approach
  • Trauma-related counseling

Facility Smoking Policy

  • Smoking not permitted

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, etc.)

  • Outpatient
  • Intensive outpatient treatment
  • Regular outpatient treatment
  • Computerized treatment

Facility Operation (e.g. Private, Public)

  • Private organization
  • State substance abuse agency
  • Council on Accreditation

Payment/Insurance Accepted

  • No payment accepted
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • State financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • State welfare or child and family services funds
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • County or local government funds
  • Federal, or any government funding for substance abuse programs

Emergency Mental Health Services

  • Crisis intervention team

Payment Assistance Available

  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Language Services

  • Spanish
  • Other languages(excluding Spanish)

Special Programs/Groups Offered

  • Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) clients
  • Clients referred from the court/judicial system
  • Adolescents
  • Persons with HIV or AIDS
  • Persons who have experienced trauma
  • Persons who have experienced sexual abuse
  • Persons who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Transitional age young adults

Ancillary Services

  • Intensive case management
  • Case management
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Housing services
  • Individual counseling offered
  • Group counseling offered
  • Family counseling offered
  • 12-step faciltitation approach
  • Brief intervention approach
  • Contingency management/motivational incentive
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Anger management
  • Community reinforcement plus vouchers
  • Relapse prevention

Age Groups Accepted

  • Children/adolescents
  • Young adults
  • Adults

Gender Accepted

  • Female
  • Male

Exclusive Services

  • Youth Outreach Services

    5910 West Division Street, Chicago, IL 60651

Rehabilitation Process