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The Allendale Association
The Allendale Association's primary programs are: Residential Treatment which has 120 beds consisting of cottage style living in secure campus environments in Lake Villa, IL and North Chicago, IL as well as two group homes in Waukegan, IL.
Education services consist of a accredited on campus school for grades 3-12, satellite classes in the community and a pre-vocational studies program.
Clinical and Community Services provides therapeutic programs and services for children and their families through the Bradley Counseling Center, Specialized Foster Care, Therapeutic Mentoring and Community Services Program.
The Relational Re-Enactment Systems Approach to Treatment
Allendale’s model, the Relational Re-Enactment Systems Approach to Treatment (REStArT), is a comprehensive child and adolescent mental health treatment model. Treatment is based on youth’s "conflict cycles" (i.e. relational trauma), which are defined by their re-enactments of their attachment experiences in the present. By engaging all systems involved with a youth and the experiences the members of those systems have with him, the treatment team can develop an understanding of how the youth sees themselves, others, and their relationships. Plans for treatment, then, are driven by this conceptualization, which is unique to each youth, but created within a model that uses attachment theory, object relations theory, an understanding of the impact of trauma and neurobiological underpinnings to organize the youth’s patterns into diagnostic categories. Treatment plans are developed to interrupt this cycle.
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Awards
Innovative Practices Award for its REStArTsm treatment model 2010
The Council on Accreditation (COA)
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Founded in 1897, The Allendale Association is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to excellence and innovation in the care, treatment, education and advocacy for families, children and youth with serious emotional, mental and behavioral health challenges.
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Allendale Association, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 12/01/2022
Mr. Horace Jordan, Jr.
Kingsbridge Holdings, LLC
Mr. Theodore Koenig
Monroe Capital, LLC
Robert E. Lee, III
No Affiliation
Mary-Audrey Atteberry
No Affiliation
Terence K. Brennan
Loyola Academy
Sharon Burd
Fifth Third Bank
Richard D. Doermer
Richard D. Doermer, Ltd.
Christopher A. Fisher
Fisher Financial Partners
Robert W. Holt
Neuberger Berman
Theodore L. Koenig
Monroe Capital LLC
Mark W. Madigan
Risk Strategies Company
Christine Maldonado
Alight Solutions
Jay D. Proops
No Affiliation
Bernard B. Rinella
Rinella & Rinella Ltd.
Mark P. Styles
Morgan Stanley
Matthew B. Tritley
Abbott Laboratories
Floyd M. Yager
Allstate Insurance Company
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Equity strategies
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- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.