The Illinois Coalition for Educating At-Risk Youth optimizes the positive growth of at-risk youth and those individuals working with at-risk youth.

2020 TAOEP Program Directory

Maps of TAOEP Programs

We will advocate on behalf of our students and programs and provide professional development to train others in the skills of advocacy.

Advocacy shall have the following responsibilities:

To develop and evaluate legislation affecting at-risk youth;
To organize and maintain the student legislative action team;
To inform the membership regarding impending legislation, possible impact and options to inform legislators; and
To perform such other duties as are required by the Board of Directors.

We will provide professional development opportunities to support the professional growth of our members.

Professional Development shall have the following responsibilities:

To make all preparations and provisions for the corporation’s Annual Conference, per direction of the “Conference Chair”, which will be appointed by the Board of Directors and attend Board meetings.
To prepare programs, in-services, training, workshops, seminars, Conferences, etc. for Corporation meetings and submit to Board of Directors for approval.
To serve as the credentials committee at the annual business meeting.
To regularly update the website with professional development resources and opportunities.
To perform such other duties as required by the Board of Directors.

We will provide opportunities to build awareness of support for the needs of our students and programs.

Communities shall have the following responsibilities:

To develop membership recruitment strategies
To maintain membership list
To coordinate and facilitate participation of other committees at the regional meetings
To perform such other duties as required by the Board of Directors.

We will build networks to support the mission of ICEARY.

Networking shall have the following responsibilities:

To explore internal and external communication avenues between general membership and Board of Directors.
To have a standing member attend regular meetings of (IARSS, IPA, IACEA, IJJC) as a representative of ICEARY.
To produce a newsletter and regularly update the website – at the discretion of the Board of Directors.
To perform such other duties as required by the Board of Directors.