Children’s Home and Aid Society of Illinois (CHASI) has been around since 1883, the agency was established by a family who observed that there were a number of children living on the street without a home, or families were not able to provide for their children. At the very beginning, the agency only dealt with foster care, and adoption, for those children who could be adopted out. Since then the agency has grown into the leading child and family service agency in Illinois, helping more than 40,000 children and families each year. The agency has eight main services that they provide with many sub-categorizes in each. I chose to focus my attention in the youth services which works with high-risk children who are homeless, drug users, foster care children, or have any involvement with the juvenile justice system. Specifically my internship was working with the Redeploy Illinois program, which work with children at risk of entering the Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ), but as an alternative work with CHASI, to stay out of the system.
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Just recently as in this year, have the caseworkers added a trauma section to their assessments, that lists every possible trauma the juvenile may have had or currently still has. This allows other agencies, working with the child, to have knowledge of the child’s background so they can find resources to help them, along with the caseworkers. At the top of that section in the paperwork it reads “research has shown that trauma is the leading indicator of future involvement with the juvenile justice system, even trauma in utero”. Although this can not be proven to be the only reason, as there is other factors that can play into future delinquency, as you will see in the research that I have found, but although it has not been proven most researchers find that statement to be
Just recently as in this year, have the caseworkers added a trauma section to their assessments, that lists every possible trauma the juvenile may have had or currently still has. This allows other agencies, working with the child, to have knowledge of the child’s background so they can find resources to help them, along with the caseworkers. At the top of that section in the paperwork it reads “research has shown that trauma is the leading indicator of future involvement with the juvenile justice system, even trauma in utero”. Although this can not be proven to be the only reason, as there is other factors that can play into future delinquency, as you will see in the research that I have found, but although it has not been proven most researchers find that statement to be