Special-Needs Schools
Spero Family Services-Residential
Special-Needs Schools · Mount Vernon, IL
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Focus
Residential Facility Emotional Disability Intellectual Disability Other Health Impairment S/L Specific Learning Disability
Area
Mount Vernon, IL
Description
ISBE-approved nonpublic special-education facility (residential facility), serving students with emotional disability, intellectual disability, other health impairment, s/l, specific learning disability. Illinois districts can place and fund students here under Section 14-7.02.
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What this special-needs school offers
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Spero Family Services is a Christ-centered human services organization founded in 1913 in Southern Illinois, offering hope, help, and healing through community, clinical, child welfare, and spiritual programs for children and families.
Leadership
Joe Bernard — CEO
Staff
Doug Hoffman — Board Chairperson
Julie Webb — Vice-Chairperson
Megan Clodi — Secretary
Gail White — Treasurer
Populations served
Children Youth Families Youth experiencing abuse or neglect Youth with mental health needs Youth transitioning to adulthood
Setting
Combination
On-site therapies
Counseling
Services
Residential Treatment Transitional and Independent Living Mental Health Juvenile Justice Wraparound Services Counseling and Wellness Center Bright Start Early Learning Center Parents as Teachers Nurturing Parenting Program YouthBuild DCFS Flex Fund Professional Development Training Church Ambassador Program
Programs
Bright Start Early Learning Center Parents as Teachers Nurturing Parenting Program Mental Health Juvenile Justice Wraparound Services YouthBuild Counseling and Wellness Center Transitional and Independent Living Residential Treatment Church Ambassador Program
Founded
1913
Accreditations & approvals
Eagle Accreditation Methodist Ministries Network United Methodist Church (Illinois Great Rivers Conference)
Phone
618-242-1070
Highlights
Founded February 1, 1913; over 100 years of service to Southern Illinois children and families; programs open to anyone fitting service criteria without discrimination.
Approach
Spero Family Services offers hope, help, and healing by providing Christ-centered human services, with a vision of communities where people achieve physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness.
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- On-site therapies (OT/PT/speech/behavioral)
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