Violence Prevention & Intervention
The Butterfly Project
The Butterfly Project helps prevent children’s exposure to violence and creates an intervention plan for those children who have already been exposed.
The Butterfly Project helps prevent children’s exposure to violence and creates an intervention plan for those children who have already been exposed.
Each year millions of children are exposed to violence in their homes. Exposure to violence, particularly multiple exposures, can interfere with children’s ability to think and learn and can disrupt the course of healthy physical, emotional, and intellectual development. The Butterfly Project reaches the most vulnerable children and families, including families who have not traditionally engaged in family services.
The Butterfly Project focuses on the unmet needs of children and families by providing home visiting services, resource and referral, case management, individual counseling, play therapy, family counseling, and other therapeutic services to children, ages 0-13, who have been impacted by violence, but are not involved in the formal child welfare system.
The Butterfly Project provides children and families who have experienced domestic violence, family violence and community violence with a comprehensive continuum of care. The program addresses the issue of children’s exposure to violence by providing community education, training, and direct services to children (ages 0-13) who have been exposed to violence.
McLean, Logan, Ford, Livingston, Woodford
Partnerships
Funding for the Butterfly Project is provided through the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) and A Family and Youth Services Bureau Supported Program.
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