Hoyleton Youth and Family Services

Hoyleton’s Puentes de Esperanza Hosts Two Firsts to Support Immigrant Clients in Southern Illinois

By Barb Powell | December 11, 2025

The outreach of Hoyleton Youth and Family Services in Fairview Heights, Ill., extends to clients throughout southern Illinois, many of whom often have nowhere else to turn. One of its programs, Puentes de Esperanza (“Bridges of Hope”), extends a much-needed lifeline to immigrants and their families. Recently, Puentes accomplished two firsts in the struggle to help immigrant families. …

Hoyleton’s Ivonne Ogden Delivers Poignant Testimony During St. Louis’ Racial Equity Summit

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | November 13, 2025

The STL Racial Equity Summit: #Unflinching: A Call to Action, held Sept. 30, 2025, brought together regional stakeholders, community leaders, and residents to confront systemic racial inequities in the St. Louis area, including representatives from Hoyleton Youth & Family Services’ Puentes de Esperanza (Bridges of Hope).  The STL Racial Equity Summit focused on three core goals: raising…

Hoyleton’s ‘Be the Light’ Honors Volunteers, Raises $94,000 for Programming

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | April 10, 2025

Hoyleton (Ill.) Youth and Family Services lit up the room Feb. 28 during its 42nd Annual Hoyleton Honors celebration. With the theme of “Be the Light,” Hoyleton highlighted the numerous ways the organization helps its clients and families transition from challenging times to brighter futures.  The annual fundraising event took place at the Regency Conference…

‘Puentes de Esperanza’ Recognized with 2024 Civic Award of Year

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | March 19, 2025

Puentes de Esperanza, a program of Hoyleton Youth and Family Services in Fairview Heights, Ill., was honored in August 2024 with the Civic Award of the Year during the 2024 Adelante Awards. The ceremony took place at the Four Seasons Hotel & Spa in downtown St. Louis. The event, aptly themed “Gateway to Growth,” was…

Hoyleton Celebrates Opening of New Residential Campus

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | January 13, 2025

Hoyleton Youth and Family Services, based in Fairview Heights, Ill., hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 18, to celebrate the completion of a once-in-a-generation construction project that provides a new therapeutic living environment for vulnerable youth in the foster care system. The ceremony was attended by Hoyleton Board members and staff, donors, local politicians, clergy…

Hoyleton Time Capsule Reveals Treasure Trove of History

By CHHSM Staff | November 14, 2024

Old newspaper articles, newsletters — some in German, a letter from the past describing an effort that would become a successful CHHSM ministry. These were among the treasures discovered during the opening of a 109-year-old time capsule Oct. 3 at Hoyleton Youth and Family Services in Fairview Heights, Ill. Hoyleton donors, board members, staff and…

P.E.E.R.S. Advisory Council Provides Concrete Steps Toward Achieving Hoyleton’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Objectives

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | August 13, 2024

The P.E.E.R.S. Advisory Council at Hoyleton Youth and Family Services recently was awarded a grant for $5,500 for the IDHS Healing Illinois Initiative. Funding for this initiative was made possible through the Southern Illinois Community Foundation, in partnership with the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Field Foundation of Illinois.  P.E.E.R.S. (Promote, Educate, Empower,…

Therapeutic Foster Parents: Hoyleton Youth and Family Services

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | January 19, 2024

Therapeutic Foster Parents Needed! Hoyleton Youth and Family Services, based in Fairview Heights, Ill., has expanded its residential foster care program to include therapeutic foster homes. This expansion provides an opportunity for identified foster youth, currently in our residential program, to live in community with qualified foster parents in a single-family home in the Belleville,…

Hoyleton’s Woehlke Named Board President, Community Behavioral Health Care Association

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | January 11, 2024

Adam Woehlke, MA, LCPC, director of behavioral health services for Hoyleton Youth and Family Services in Fairview Heights, Ill., has been named board president of the Community Behavioral Healthcare Association (CBHA) of Illinois for 2024. Woehlke has been a director at Hoyleton since 2021 and has worked in the behavioral health field for the past…

CHHSM’s Impact at UCC General Synod Helps Make All Things New

By Barb Powell | July 13, 2023

The United Church of Christ’s 34th General Synod, held June 30-July 4 in Indianapolis, brought church members together from across the country to celebrate the call of God — based on Isaiah 43 — to make all things new. And the UCC Council for Health and Human Service Ministries was integral to the entire event.…

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