Children’s Home & Aid is a leading child and family service agency in Illinois. They help children recover their health, their hope, and their faith in the people around them.
They link children to a network of opportunity and care, to extended family, teachers, mentors, and the resources of their neighborhood and community. For 135 years, they go wherever children and families need them, and where that work has been proven to be most effective: at home, in the classroom, in the neighborhood, in the course of daily life. Their offices are located across Illinois and serve more than 40,000 children and families each year in over 60 counties.

Rosecrance provides help, hope and recovery to children, youth, adults and families. Existing spaces at the Berry Campus will be transformed into a play therapy room and a sensory room to supplement more traditional “talk therapy.” These new resources will serve children with varying needs through non-verbal play stations, games, items to engage tactile and auditory senses, including a dollhouse and art supplies. In addition, portable kits will be created for clinicians to use in over 2,000 community crisis calls each year. Over 3500 children were served in 2016 at the Berry Campus and this grant will assist clinicians in more successfully engaging kids to teach and model skills to manage their mental health symptoms in daily life.