Mission Statement
The United Methodist Children's Home strives for excellence in helping individuals, families, and communities grow through services provided in a safe nurturing environment of trust and open communication.
Residential
It is our belief that all youth are unique and require individualized treatment approaches. To promote healing, our residential treatment program provides a compassionate environment with the support of caring people. Continue Reading...
Transitional Living Program
Youth between the ages of 17-21, attending school or working full-time, who have the capacity, motivation, and maturity level, are eligible for the program. Continue Reading...
Quest School
This program provides progressive special education services to UMCH residents and youth in Grades 6 through 12 from surrounding communities. Continue Reading...
Family Centered Services
The mission of the FCS Education and Support Program is to utilize creative, individualized services that are child-focused, family-centered and community based in order to provide training and supportive services to meet the needs of youth and families within their home environment. Continue Reading...
Best Beginnings / Nurse-Family Partnership
This is a voluntary program where highly educated nurses visit women in their homes during their first pregnancy and throughout the first 2 years of their children's lives. Continue Reading...
Adoptions
Adoption is providing a child or children with a permanent family. A successful adoption has a child growing up with a healthy and secure identity. Continue Reading...
Family Supported Professional Foster Care
UMCH in conjunction with the Illinois Dept. of Children & Family Services provides a highly specialized, intensive foster care program for youth who live in the Southern Region of Illinois. Continue Reading...
YouthBuild
This program engages unemployed young men and women, most of whom have not completed high school and all of whom come from low-income families. YouthBuild enables them to serve their communities by building affordable housing, and assists them in transforming their own lives and roles in society. Continue Reading...
SILANs - Southern Illinois Local Area Networks
Wraparound planning is a dynamic process which is based on individualized, strength based, needs driven planning and service delivery. A wraparound plan is family centered and surrounded by a team that chooses services and providers to best meet the needs of a family in their home, school, and community. Plans are continually evolving based on a family’s developing strengths and evolving needs. Continue Reading...
United Methodist Children’s Home services are offered without discrimination by reason of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age or handicap except as limited by the categories of services for which UMCH is licensed to provide. UMCH is an equal opportunity employer.