Lawrence Hall

OUR PROGRAMS:

PROJECT WORK: Mentoring Youth To Inspire Meaningful Employment (MY TIME) – is a job training program that helps at-risk youth secure and retain employment. Lawrence Hall’s young adults gain employment skills, and a taste of workforce success, through real-life work experiences across Chicago-area communities. TryMe’s is a full-service, youth-run café located at Lawrence Hall’s Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Dining Hall. Supervised by a professional staff, youth receive food service instruction while preparing meals for the young people who live on the Lawrence Hall’s campus. A future goal is for TryMe’s Café to evolve into a food service certification program for youth.

FOSTER CARE: Our Foster Care Program provides safe, secure and nurturing homes for
children who have been removed from their birth families because of abuse or neglect. Foster care offers havens for children until they can safely return to their families, transition to guardianship, or become adopted.

THERAPEUTIC DAY SCHOOL: Our Therapeutic Day School uses specialized education programming to improve the academic, vocational, and social-emotional behavior of youth with behavioral disorders, emotional challenges and learning disabilities that inhibit success in public school settings.

RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT: The Child and Family Treatment Center Program provides care to adolescents traumatized by abuse and neglect. Youth and their families receive intensive therapeutic treatment that is strengths
based, family-focused and outcomes-driven.

OLDER ADOLESCENT INITIATIVES: Two programs – the Transitional Living Program and Independent Living – help youth transition from residential or foster-care living, to dormitory-like settings and, eventually, to independent homes. With each program, young adults receive specialized care, support, supervision and life skills services to ease their transition into adulthood.

SPECIALIZED SERVICES: Woven through each Lawrence Hall program are additional therapeutic and supportive services for youth to treat trauma, stabilize behavior, promote wellness and teach self-management skills essential to living independent and successful lives: Canine Therapy, Youth Advisory Council, Music Therapy, Therapeutic Recreation and Expressive Therapies.