Upcoming Events
ICOY hosts training, policy forums, special events and other meetings for our membership, direct service providers contracted through the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) and service administrators. See a calendar of all our upcoming events and training.
Events
Poverty and Trauma
Trauma is often understood as a specific event, but it can also exist as an ongoing set of circumstances. Poverty is one of the most common yet frequently overlooked forms of trauma in America. In this training, participants will explore the long-term destabilization and dysregulation associated with poverty through an intersectional, historical, and transgenerational lens.…
Child Welfare Coalition Call
Join ICOY and other member organizations on a call to discuss key changes in the child welfare and youth-led arena. The goal is to create a child welfare system that prepares youth to become successful and self-sufficient. Illinois Collaboration on Youth (ICOY) seeks to focus the attention of Illinois’ elected officials in all branches of…
Workforce Well-Being: Showing Up Without Burning Out
Youth-serving professionals are asked to support others while navigating increasingly complex environments marked by trauma, crisis, limited resources, and competing demands. This interactive session explores workforce well-being as a shared organizational responsibility rather than an individual burden. Participants will examine how stress, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and youth mental health challenges impact helping professionals while…
ICOY Monthly Member Call
Register below for ICOY’s monthly member call where we’ll provide updates from state and federal agencies on topics related to your work. If you don’t currently belong to a member organization but would like to participate, reach out to ICOY’s Manager of Membership & Communications, Ally Abeles, at aabeles@icoyouth.org.
Regional Community Chats – Region 3
Regional Community Chats will help cultivate a collaborative community of providers, promoting open communication across contracts, peer learning, and resource exchange. Through regular meetings, providers will be able to address shared challenges across their regions. If you would like to provide some ideas to guide our conversation, please fill out this Typeform: https://icoyouth.typeform.com/to/hG03e4ba If you…
Regional Community Chats – Region 4
Regional Community Chats will help cultivate a collaborative community of providers, promoting open communication across contracts, peer learning, and resource exchange. Through regular meetings, providers will be able to address shared challenges across their regions. If you would like to provide some ideas to guide our conversation, please fill out this Typeform: https://icoyouth.typeform.com/to/hG03e4ba If…
Youth and Family Engagement: From Participation to Partnership
This training is designed to help service providers strengthen relationships with youth and their support networks. Participants will explore both individual and systemic barriers to engagement while examining ways to create meaningful opportunities for youth and caregiver participation. Using a framework rooted in power-sharing and collaboration, participants will practice strategies to increase trust, foster sustainable…
Trauma Talks: The Impact of Domestic Violence on Family Systems
ICOY CARES Trauma TalksUnderstanding Domestic Violence is beyond observing individual relationships. We must look beyond Intimate Partner Violence, and recognize Domestic Violence as an act of harm on the entire family and community system. Understanding Domestic Violence requires a reflection of larger society and systems to truly address its impact. Participants will grow shared language and tools to…
Working with Youth Experiencing Housing Instability: Training for IDHS Homeless Youth Program Providers
This two-day webinar is designed specifically for new supervisory and front-line staff working in Illinois DHS-funded Homeless Youth programs. Participants will receive an orientation to both effective practice with youth experiencing homelessness and the program requirements necessary for successful implementation of DHS-funded services. Topics include understanding the unique needs and experiences of youth experiencing homelessness,…
Neurodiversity 101
Neurodiversity is a complex topic where shared language and understanding are essential to every team's success. Whether or not it's been named directly, young people and staff who are neurodivergent are present in every program. This two-hour foundational training gives participants a shared vocabulary for talking about neurodiversity, along with tools to recognize and consider…
Casey Life Skills
Please join us for this Casey Life skills training, developed by Casey Family Programs, which teaches youth providers how to use life skills assessments with youth in homeless youth and transitioning youth programs. Casey assessments also have applications in a variety of other youth service programs including basic centers, street outreach programs, educational outreach programs…
Regional Community Chat – Region 5
Regional Community Chats will help cultivate a collaborative community of providers, promoting open communication across contracts, peer learning, and resource exchange. Through regular meetings, providers will be able to address shared challenges across their regions If you would like to provide some ideas to guide our conversation, please fill out this Typeform: https://icoyouth.typeform.com/to/hG03e4ba …