Outreach Center
The Outreach Center is committed to helping individuals and families through a variety of programs. Programming such as the Youth-at-Risk After School Program that offers quality after school activities. The Youth-At-Risk Summer Achievement Program is an eight week day camp where participants will enjoy the opportunity to participate in basketball, tennis, swimming, golf, self-defense, boy scouts, performing arts, 4H, cooking classes, weekly field trips, and arts and crafts.
The Heart of Peoria After-School Program provides after school programming for children who reside in the Central Bluff Region of Peoria. Children participating benefit from excellent facilities and dedicated volunteers provided by Arcadia Avenue Presbyterian Church located at 210 W. Arcadia in Peoria.
The Heart of Peoria Summer Program is a free eight-week day camp for all after school program participants. Participants will enjoy the opportunity to participate in basketball, tennis, swimming, golf, self-defense, boy scouts, performing arts, 4H, cooking classes, weekly field trips, and arts and crafts.
Our Respite Services a Respite Day Program providing support to working adoptive, foster, and intact biological families whose children are experiencing difficulties in school due to poor behavior and are required to serve an out-of-school suspensions. The Project Respite Help program provides extensive respite child-care services and weekly support group programming for adoptive families and families in the process of adoption. Project Children First is a collaboration between Counseling & Family Services and the Crittenton Centers to provide an expansion of their current respite and support services for at risk families in Peoria, Tazwell, and Woodford counties.
The Community Prevention Education Programs offer such programs as Abstinence Education providing an eight-week educational abstinence program called “Choosing the Best.” The program is designed to help our youth gain knowledge of the risks associated with sexual activity and the benefits of being abstinent. The Aggression Replacement Training program was developed by Counseling & Family Services and Peoria Central High School staff, to address the needs of high-risk students, in need of essential social skills training, with the goal of preventing out-of-school suspensions.
For program information and Referral Services
To make a referral or to receive additional program information, please call Counseling & Family Services Outreach Center at 682-4621.
