About Us

The Hope Institute for Children and Families Mission:

To support children and families to reach optimum growth, independence and joy.

Hope’s Core Goals

By 2010, Hope will:

• Expand services to the Chicago metro area
• Launch community classrooms in public schools
• Integrate more children into the community by decreasing the number of children living on campus and increasing the number of children living in community group homes
• Launch adult services via Community Integrated Living Arrangements (CILAs)
• Reshape campus residential programs to focus on children who are medically fragile and/or have dual diagnoses
• Increase health services on campus
• Increase the capacity of Hope’s community health services

The Hope Institute for Children and Families Vision

Building on these goals, The Hope Institute’s long-term vision is to be a statewide and nationally recognized center of excellence:

• Providing evidence-based, empirically-supported residential, educationsl and health services to children and families
• Conducting research and disseminating findings with university partners that will significantly improve the science and delivery of services
• Developing and training professionals/paraprofessionals in the provision of services to children and families