Hoyleton Youth and Family Services

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…

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‘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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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,…

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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…

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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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New Location, New Class Bring Renewed Energy to Nollau Leadership Institute

By Barb Powell | June 13, 2023

With much enthusiasm, the members of the 2023-2024 Nollau Leadership Institute met May 22-26 at Bellwether Farm in Wakeman, Ohio, for their first retreat of the year-long program. To say that people came away refreshed and grounded would be an understatement. “The biggest thing is we had to work on ourselves first,” said Melinda Love,…

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Hoyleton Partnership with Library Provides Increased Services to Community

By CHHSM-Member Ministry Contribution | April 14, 2023

Thanks to a successful partnership between Hoyleton Youth and Family Services of Collinsville, Ill., and a local library, residents in the surrounding communities are benefiting from increased services.  In February, Katie Heaton, assistant director of the Mississippi Valley Library District, received the Hoyleton Youth and Family Services’ Empowerment Champion Award at its honors banquet. Here…

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