Proactive Academic Counseling of Illinois
Proactive Academic Counseling of Illinois is devoted to providing extraordinary in-home, school and community-based services that are customized to support the educational needs of each child we serve.
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Our goal is to improve academic outcomes by supporting the development of skills that build stronger relational bonds, improve self-confidence, self-advocacy, and strengthen connectedness to the community.
What is Proactive Counseling?
Proactive Academic Counseling (PAC) is an intensive, in-home, therapeutic intervention designed to support the academic and socioemotional growth of high-risk students. PAC incorporates four key areas of focus, which include the individual, family, school and community. We then customize a service plan that addresses each child and their family's unique dynamics. PAC will create and implement solutions that improve synergy between the student and the systemic influences that impact socio-emotional health and academic performance.
PAC Service Providers build a therapeutic relationship with the identified child that supports increasing motivation and building communication skills, decisions making skills, behavioral regulation skills, self advocacy skills, as well as other identified areas of in need of improvement identified by stakeholders.
We provide intensive therapeutic services to support families in advocating for their needs by improving communication around the strengths and challenges within the home that impact a child’s success in the school environment.
Our Service Providers help ensure that interventions are understood by all stakeholders. We also support caregivers by modeling behaviors that reinforce the skills being instilled in their students.
Unique among many interventions, our Service Providers also assist caregivers in building community connections and establishing access to both informal and formal resources that can help meet family needs, such as food, clothing, and other essential supports.
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Parent Coaching
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Routine/Schedule-building skills
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Financial budgeting/management
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Home economic skills
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Other identified needs
The PAC Approach
Individual
Service providers will have several therapeutic contacts per week with identified students to work on areas such as:
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Self-advocacy skills
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Emotional/behavioral regulation
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Decision-making skills
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Self/social awareness
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Other identified needs
Family
Service providers will have one or more therapeutic contacts (based on need) within the home to get a better understanding of familial dynamics, strengths and deficits to provide:
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Parent Coaching
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Routine/Schedule-building skills
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Financial budgeting/management
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Home economic skills
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Other identified needs
School
Service providers serve as a mediator to build alliances and trust between parents and the respective school professionals and become a partner in implementing recommended interventions in the home environment.
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District/Community academic resource navigation
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Improve quality of communication between school and parents
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Support client/parent comprehension and advocacy in formal meetings (IEP, disciplinary, truancy, etc.)
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Other identified need
Community
Service providers will support the client/family in navigating and drawing resources in legal, formal and informal community systems.
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Expand network of informal supports
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Identifying/utilizing formal supports
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Provide testimony and legal proceedings
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Connect to financial/nutritional supplemental programs
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Other identified needs
Contact Proactive Academic Counseling of Illinois
440 Quadrangle Dr.
Suite K
Bolingbrook, IL 60440
United States
For more information on PAC or to discuss how PAC can be implemented in your community, please contact:
Joshua Bracken at (630) 765-1979
or submit a form via our website at