Hoyleton Youth and Family Services
Hoyleton Youth and Family Services, based in Fairview Heights, Ill., hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 18, to celebrate the completion of a once-in-a-generation construction project that provides a new therapeutic living environment for vulnerable youth in the foster care system. The ceremony was attended by Hoyleton Board members and staff, donors, local politicians, clergy…
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Old newspaper articles, newsletters — some in German, a letter from the past describing an effort that would become a successful CHHSM ministry. These were among the treasures discovered during the opening of a 109-year-old time capsule Oct. 3 at Hoyleton Youth and Family Services in Fairview Heights, Ill. Hoyleton donors, board members, staff and…
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The P.E.E.R.S. Advisory Council at Hoyleton Youth and Family Services recently was awarded a grant for $5,500 for the IDHS Healing Illinois Initiative. Funding for this initiative was made possible through the Southern Illinois Community Foundation, in partnership with the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Field Foundation of Illinois. P.E.E.R.S. (Promote, Educate, Empower,…
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Therapeutic Foster Parents Needed! Hoyleton Youth and Family Services, based in Fairview Heights, Ill., has expanded its residential foster care program to include therapeutic foster homes. This expansion provides an opportunity for identified foster youth, currently in our residential program, to live in community with qualified foster parents in a single-family home in the Belleville,…
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Adam Woehlke, MA, LCPC, director of behavioral health services for Hoyleton Youth and Family Services in Fairview Heights, Ill., has been named board president of the Community Behavioral Healthcare Association (CBHA) of Illinois for 2024. Woehlke has been a director at Hoyleton since 2021 and has worked in the behavioral health field for the past…
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The United Church of Christ’s 34th General Synod, held June 30-July 4 in Indianapolis, brought church members together from across the country to celebrate the call of God — based on Isaiah 43 — to make all things new. And the UCC Council for Health and Human Service Ministries was integral to the entire event.…
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With much enthusiasm, the members of the 2023-2024 Nollau Leadership Institute met May 22-26 at Bellwether Farm in Wakeman, Ohio, for their first retreat of the year-long program. To say that people came away refreshed and grounded would be an understatement. “The biggest thing is we had to work on ourselves first,” said Melinda Love,…
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Thanks to a successful partnership between Hoyleton Youth and Family Services of Collinsville, Ill., and a local library, residents in the surrounding communities are benefiting from increased services. In February, Katie Heaton, assistant director of the Mississippi Valley Library District, received the Hoyleton Youth and Family Services’ Empowerment Champion Award at its honors banquet. Here…
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Connection. If one word can sum up three days of worship, workshops, keynotes, meetings, and social gatherings, it’s connection — at least in terms of the 85th Annual Gathering of the UCC Council for Health and Human Service Ministries, themed “Together through Mountains and Valleys” and held March 7-9 in Denver. “The 85th Annual Gathering…
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Hoyleton Youth and Family Services is excited to announce that it is expanding its Therapeutic Foster Care services. This expansion provides an opportunity for three identified foster youth, currently in residential care at Hoyleton, to live in community with qualified foster parents in a single family home in the Belleville, Ill., area. This program was…
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