HomeWorks
HomeWorks provides a continuum of services to help stabilize families and decrease student truancy, dropout, and expulsion rates. HomeWorks engages students through academic assistance, clinical interventions, and leadership skills training, and offers community referrals for longer-term connection to resources.
HomeWorks partners with school and community agencies to assess a student's needs and the needs of the family. We believe that families can be strengthened by teaching new skills and enhancing the family's positive qualities.
When a student is referred to UCAN, we begin with a thorough assessment that enables us to determine what services can best help the whole family cope with the young person's needs. Our services include:
- In-home support: Assessment and crisis intervention within the home so the family can practice solving problems and communicating where these skills are most needed - in the home.
- Safety at home: Caseworkers identify potential crisis situations or less than ideal behaviors to help the family avoid stress.
- Access to community service: HomeWorks helps families locate appropriate mentoring, tutoring, recreation and mental health services in the community
HomeWorks can help if:
- Your family resides in Lake County
- Your family resides in one of a number of Chicago-area neighborhoods, including Edgewater, Uptown, Ravenswood, Horner Park, Rogers Park, the lower West side and West Lawndale
- There is a student in your family or school whose behavioral problems put them at risk for truancy which could lead to suspension or expulsion from school
- You need assistance finding appropriate resources to help the student, including but not limited to mental health services, medical care, after-school programs, or academic assistance
- As a parent, you are willing to work with a program which will come to your home
To contact HomeWorks, email homeworks@ucanchicago.org. In the Chicago area, call 773-429-9346. In Lake County, call 847-362-2111. For Spanish-speaking services, call 312-738-5910.
For a downloadable brochure, please click here.
