Family Advocacy in Champaign County

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Family Advocacy in Champaign County Family Advocacy in Champaign County (FACC) empowers families through advocacy to understand their role and responsibilities in the child welfare system.

As a partner in the statewide Strengthening Families collaboration, Family Advocacy works to build family and community resilience and effective partnerships between parents and the systems that serve them and their children. Our commitment is to promote a strengths-based, family-centered approach to schools, public health, courts, child welfare and other agencies and organizations willing to partner in the interests of thriving youth and families. While our primary target is African American families due to racial disproportionality and disparity, we serve and have success with a diverse array of families. These families include, but are not limited to:

Families that receive in home services (intact) with child welfare agencies in Champaign County. Families who are in crisis, but need encouragement while they change their lives. Services Provided:

Advocacy: informing and assisting you in advocating for yourself or speaking on your behalf. Providing support and assistance in maneuvering through the various systems you may be involved with. Mentoring: assisting with development of short and long term life goals. Mediation: to intervene as a neutral party on your behalf to work through conflicts that arise with service providers,

Counseling: individual and family counseling

Workshops: to host, sponsor, or co-sponsor workshops and groups that address parenting skills, life skills, working with child welfare and social service agencies in the community and domestic violence. Outreach: to provide services to families from the community and work in collaboration with other service providers.

3rd Party Visits: coordinate and supervise visits with clients whose children are in placement

The Family Table Group Sessions: group sessions address parenting skills, domestic violence, relationships, life skills, budgeting, short and long term goals.

Join us for our upcoming Event at FACC!
03/31/2025

Join us for our upcoming Event at FACC!

11/27/2023
12/27/2021

Family Advocacy Centers are one-stop shops for information, connections and support to help former youth in care under the age of 30 maintain stability. Youth who are aging out may also be referred for after care and will be added to the program upon emancipation. To find a FAC, visit the Service Provider IDentification and Exploration Resource (SPIDER) website at https://spider.dcfs.illinois.gov/
· Enter your zip code or an address
· Select “Maximum Distance” from the dropdown
· Click “Locate Address”
· Click on “Keyword”
· Type in “Family Advocacy Center”
· Click “Search” and scroll down to see a list of FACs near you

03/14/2019

Grace Mitchell, MSW '79, Field Instructor, and Executive Director of Family Advocacy in Champaign County, has dedicated her life's work to assisting youth, and advocating for families in the local community. Learn how she continues to make a difference, years after her retirement.

http://socialwork.illinois.edu/testimonial/grace-mitchell/

As many of you know, we have an amazing website at www.family-advocacy.org We have recently updated our website and have...
03/14/2019

As many of you know, we have an amazing website at www.family-advocacy.org
We have recently updated our website and have made it more user friendly!

03/14/2019

Grace's speach part 2

03/14/2019

Ms. Grac's speach part 1

03/14/2019

I would like to thank all the agencies that helped put together our S. O. F. T. T. meeting and helping it become a success. A special thank you to Maize Mexican Grill and Jett's Pizza for providing our amazing lunch for that day! I hope everybody who came out enjoyed the forum and for those who were not able to join us, some photos and videos are going to be posted shortly!

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310 W Church Street, Ste 103
Champaign, IL
61820

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 12pm

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