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Intensive Placement Stabilization Services


IPS clients are referred by the Department of Children and Family Services or a contracted foster care provider. Prospective clients must meet the following criteria:
-DCFS must have a legal relationship with the youth-Youth must be residing in home of relative, traditional foster care, or fictive kin placement-Child must meet intake criteria in regards to clinical presentation which focuses on trauma symptomology, emotional/behavioral needs and risk behaviors as defined by the CANS.-Child must be placed in Will, Kane, Kendall or Grundy County.
Center for Family Services' Intensive Placement Stabilization (IPS) is a short term clinical program designed to work with DCFS youth and their families to stabilize the youth in their environment. 
The IPS team uses the wraparound perspective to address the youth's and family's needs. 
IPS services are designed to be brief services with an expected length of 6 months. Individualized services are determined during the development of of the Individual Plan of Care (IPC) and are reviewed quarterly.

Service Coordination
Foster Parent Support
Tutoring/Mentoring
Therapy
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310 N Hammes Ave Suite 100 Joliet, IL 60435
cfs@cfsil.org
872-356-2004
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