Overview

General Description

 A.      Halfway House Committee, Inc., a not for profit corporation, maintains its executive office in Crestwood/Robbins, Illinois.

B.      Sadie Waterford Manor serves the emotional, psychological, social, and educational needs of females between the ages of fourteen and nineteen who are in need of temporary placement.  Sadie Waterford Manor is a service program of the Halfway House Committee is located at 13651 South Crawford Avenue, Crestwood/Robbins, Illinois  60472.  The telephone numbers for Sadie Waterford Manor are as follows:  (708) 371-1969 and (708) 371-0930, fax (708) 371-1204.

C.      Sadie Waterford Manor functions as an Emergency Service Overflow Center  licensed by the State of Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.  The license number is 039238-08.  This facility is licensed to provide temporary placement for up to fifteen girls.

D.      The primary objective and program design of the Halfway House Committee, Inc. and Sadie Waterford Manor is to provide immediate placement and to offer an environment with comprehensive treatment services for girls who are referred from the Columbus/Maryville Center. This unique population often demonstrates a need for both physical and therapeutic services which range from a short period (one-hour to 12 months) to an even longer extended period.

E.      Sadie Waterford Manor shall provide supportive social services to assist each resident in developing and cultivating emotional resources, effective coping mechanisms, appropriate and effective communication skills, and equitable socialization skills.  In addition to the aforementioned skills, additional therapeutic and community resources and related activities will be provided to assist those residents whose needs may include life skills.

Population Served Under the Proposed Contract

Sadie Waterford Manor shall provide a comprehensive (ecological) Emergency Service Overflow Program which includes an appropriate milieu structure concomitant to those unique needs which are consistent to the behavioral, emotional, and social needs for females between the ages of fourteen and nineteen, and who demonstrate moderate to severe impairment in one or more of life’s fundamental areas.  Such impairment may include emotional dysfunctions, socially maladaptive behaviors, domestic disequilibrium, conduct disorders, or related conditions which have resulted from abuse and/or neglect.

Admission Procedures

It should be recognized that all referrals submitted by the Department of Children and Family Services will be accepted until 9:30 p.m. every day of the year.  There are no particular profiles of incoming residents, only that they need an emergency placement. 

Procedures

Referrals by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services shall be made directly via telephone conversations or written documentation.  The content of the referral information shall be sufficient to provide admission to Sadie Waterford Manor understanding that we may not have a thorough understanding of her current situation and major stresses.  Sadie Waterford Manor will attempt to obtain the following, subsequent to the residents’ admission.

1.       A comprehensive social history which includes a statement of the problem, a review of current and past living conditions, a history and evaluation of previous placements, names and addresses of guardians, parents, and/or significant others which the adolescent may be permitted to visit.

2.       Summary of medical findings, statement of communicable diseases, dental and optometry examinations, a review of any hospitalizations for medical or psychiatric reasons, surgeries, and current regime of medications.

3.       Academic reports to include educational testing, multi-disciplinary staff conferences, individualized educational programs, and revisions of curriculum or educational placements, previous scholastic progress and grades.

4.       Results of psychiatric evaluations and/or psychological/neuropsychological testing to include history of identifying problems, general appearance and behavioral observation current level of intellectual functioning, personality and projective material, severity of psycho-social stressors, current global assessment of functioning, highest global assessment of functioning within the past year, comprehensive summary, and treatment recommendations.

5.       Comprehensive reports of any previously established therapeutic interventions, progress and/or difficulties during therapy, and appropriate recommendations relevant to future therapeutic interventions. Columbus/Maryville will be called daily prior to 9:00 a.m. to report census information.  Sadie Waterford Manor will maintain an in and out log for residents.

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