Children Seeking Admission to The Illinois Masonic Children’s Homes May Be Experiencing

  the Following Issues:

• Family difficulties
• Mild to moderate Learning Disabilities/Behavioral Disabilities/Educational Disabilities
• Low academic achievement
• Academically talented and high functioning but living in chaotic, dysfunctional families
• Abuse, abandonment, and/or neglect
• Relational problems with parents, siblings, and/or guardians
• Suffering from depression, poor self esteem, and adjustment difficulties
• Poverty

  Beyond our Scope:

• Severe to profound Learning Disabilities/Behavioral Disabilities/Educational Disabilities
• Actively suicidal/homicidal
• Fire-setting
• Currently self-mutilating
• Chemically dependent
• Perpetrator of sexual or physical abuse
• Pregnant teens
• Primary diagnosis of schizophrenia
• Gang affiliations
• Court adjudications
• Run-aways