Programs

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) for Families Program provides specialized counseling and case management to children, adolescents and their families. Services are provided in the home, as well as the office setting.

Adoption provides the child a more secure future with a stable family. Webster-Cantrell Hall is committed to achieving permanency in a child's life.

Comprehensive Youth Services In-Home Counseling Program strives to keep children in their own home. Counseling is utilized to improve family relationships. This program is part of a greater picture. A Comprehensive Youth Services Board, made up of Macon and Piatt County residents, establishes policies for the In-Home Counseling Program. This type of program exemplifies the cooperation of varying agencies and services of the community in order to help youth and families

Family First Initiative - intensive services are provided which are tailored to a family's particular crisis. Services may include but are not limited to:

Parenting classes
Emergency caretakers
Homemakers
Housing assistance
Individual and family counseling
Child development education
Respite care
Day care
Job finding
Household management education
Emergency food assistance
Emergency cash assistance
Community resource referral

Foster Family Program offers homes to children who cannot live with their own parents. The length of stay of each child varies from brief to several years. While living with a foster family, there is counseling with the child, foster family and natural family. Additional services are provided to aid in the reunification of the family or another means of permanency for the child.

Foster Family After Care serves children who have successfully returned home to their parents. This program provides case management and counseling services in order to stabilize the newly reunited family for up to nine months.

Relative Foster Family serves children who are unable to reside in the parental home, but have relatives who can provide a warm and loving home environment. Basically, the same services are provided to the families and children in relative foster care as in regular foster homes.

Student Assistance Program is an in-school counseling program providing confidential assistance to at-risk students via counseling services and linkage to community services.

The Residential Center provides the structure, treatment, education and counseling to help troubled youth stabilize their lives. A full range of services are provided, including an on-ground school, therapeutic recreation, counseling, therapy, family involvement, and community services.

Supervised Independent Living Program (SILP) serves youth who are ready to progress from substitute care to independence. These youth receive weekly monitoring case management and counseling services to assist them in the transition to true independence.

Webster-Cantrell-Staley Group Home services up to 10 youth in the growth towards independence. Residents do their own cooking, laundering, and cleaning as in a modified family unit. The youth usually attend public schools, participate in community activities, and work.