About Hoyleton Youth and Family Services – Hoyleton
Hoyleton Youth and Family Services offers a program for preventing substance abuse in Hoyleton, Illinois. They fight the rise in youth substance use in Southern Illinois by offering Life Skills Training – Botvins. Their work helps young people make healthy decisions by providing them with practice in decision making, anxiety coping mechanisms, and social and communication skills. The topics they cover include ways to talk to youth about drug and alcohol use, managing expectations around use, and appropriate youth and parent behaviors in and out of the house as well as signs of abuse among peers. They are a Medicaid accepting organization. Therapists who speak Spanish are on hand.
For the sake of the community as a whole, it is critical to identify substance abuse and provide resources to address cases of abuse. They collaborate with leaders, community groups, educators, parents, and any organization that works with young people. They collaborate with a number of neighborhood organizations to provide additional resources for prevention.
Substance misuse is frequently a symptom of underlying trauma. Together with adults and children, their counseling care team creates trauma informed strategies to combat substance abuse. Cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, skills building and art therapy are among the interventions that are offered.
Their school based mental health counseling services help young people who are dealing with behavioral problems, trauma, and anxiety as well as depression and substance abuse. Their substance use prevention specialists teach young people about substances, what they are and how they’re used as well as the effects they have on people. Their interactions also foster more wholesome adult relationships.