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Posted: Dec 5, 2011, 12:26
SALEM4YOUTH
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Flanagan, Illinois
Kent Robson
Executive Director/CEO
815-796-4561
krobson@salem4youth.com
www.salem4youth.com
Salem4youth is a working farm for 'prodigal' boys, located in the heartland of Central Illinois just 1½ hours south of Chicago, on 100+ acres of farmland in Flanagan, IL. They utilize two programs for young men ages twelve thru eighteen in an effort to gain the maximum benefit for each student served. One is a 4-6 month program for those students who are showing a downward trend in their lives, and need refocused before they get to the point of needing a long-term program. The other is a 12-18 month program for those young men struggling the most, and who need more time to accomplish the changes they need to make in order to be successful in the future. The most common issues the young men have entering the program are not respecting authority, drug use, failing school, hyperactive, depressed, unmotivated, playing video games, selfish, lazy, and impulsive.
Salem4youth, also known as Salem Children's Home, was begun in 1895 as an orphanage. Its purpose was "to build and maintain a home for orphans and other worthy, destitute children, and for giving them industrial and religious training, and a common school education." This purpose grew out of the Biblical faith convictions of the founding churches, then known as Defenseless Mennonite churches. They continue today as an affiliate corporation of this family of churches, now known as the Fellowship of Evangelical Churches (FEC). As clientele and their needs changed they became licensed as a boarding school under the Illinois Board of Education in 2006 and are affiliated with the National Association of Street Schools. All class room instruction is given on campus with a curriculum using a computer-based program called Switched on Schoolhouse. Vocational classes are taught basic mechanics, welding/fabrications, computers/electronics, and carpentry/home improvement.
The boys participate in a competitive league in basketball, track, swimming, bowling, soccer, volleyball, and softball. The Equine Center has a heated indoor riding area and the program regularly receives Arabian, Paint, Quarter Horses, Palomino and many other breeds through donations. The students are involved in everything from feeding and watering, picking stalls, grooming and washing, riding, showing and training. The boys also have their own heated wood working shop.
[This information came from the Salem4youth website.]
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