Youth
After School Programs - Teen Reach Published May 18, 2016
Teen Reach is an after school program for at-risk youth, primarily serving 11-17 year-olds. Teen Reach participants take part in activities to improve their educational performance, learn life skills, develop new interests (athletic, artistic, cultural), build mentoring relationships, and perform community service projects. In 2015, 12,935 youth received Teen REACH services at an average per capita cost of $594 per youth. 99.2% (470 of 474) of Teen REACH seniors participating in the program 9 months or longer graduated (1).
The program has gone unfunded in FY2016.
In May 2016, a coalition of 350 Illinois sheriffs, police chiefs, and prosecutors called for funding to be restored to Teen Reach and similar social service programs supporting at-risk youth (2).Even before the budget impasse, Governor Rauner suspended program funds in April 2015, as part of the suspension of $26 million in social services and public health grant funds (3).
The program has gone unfunded in FY2016.
In May 2016, a coalition of 350 Illinois sheriffs, police chiefs, and prosecutors called for funding to be restored to Teen Reach and similar social service programs supporting at-risk youth (2).Even before the budget impasse, Governor Rauner suspended program funds in April 2015, as part of the suspension of $26 million in social services and public health grant funds (3).
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2015 State-wide Teen Reach Program Providers
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2015 Chicago Teen Reach Program Providers
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None of the program providers on tHESE maps have received funding for Teen Reach this fiscal year
Redeploy Illinois - Reducing Juvenile Incarceration Updated June 16, 2016
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Redeploy Illinois is a program of the Department of Human Services. It seeks to reduce juvenile incarceration through community-based programs to promote positive outcomes for at-risk youth. In program pilots, youth had a 27% lower recidivism rate than youth who did not participate (1).
The program serves 46 counties. 25 of these counties have stopped operating the program due to the budget impasse (2). 
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Sources: (1) Illinois Department of Human Services (2) Illinois Collaboration on Youth, Correspondence from Kathleen Wright, Director of Youth Service Bureau Springfield, Il