Full Text of HR1225 096th General Assembly
HR1225 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate the board and | 4 |
| administration of The Youth Campus on the occasion of the | 5 |
| organization's 100th anniversary of service in the City of Park | 6 |
| Ridge; and
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| WHEREAS, The rich history of what would become The Youth | 8 |
| Campus began in 1876, when Mrs. Delia Louise Rockwood Wardner, | 9 |
| wife of Brigade Surgeon Horace Wardner, accompanied her husband | 10 |
| to Cairo, Illinois, and soon realized the great need of the | 11 |
| many homeless and destitute children, especially girls, | 12 |
| brought to Cairo after the war; she gathered support to found | 13 |
| the Illinois Industrial School for Girls in 1877 as "a home and | 14 |
| proper training school" for girls orphaned by the Civil War; | 15 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, For 32 years, the Illinois Industrial School for | 17 |
| Girls operated in Evanston; in 1908, the school moved to a | 18 |
| 40-acre farm in Park Ridge, completing the move in 1910; Hannah | 19 |
| Greenebaum Solomon, a civic and social welfare activist, led | 20 |
| the reorganization of the school's financial structure; her | 21 |
| considerable social connections permitted her to invite | 22 |
| generous philanthropic support, including a charitable | 23 |
| baseball game in the future Comiskey Park; Mrs. Solomon also |
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| invited her close friend Jane Addams, the founder of modern | 2 |
| social work and Chicago's Hull House, to join the school's | 3 |
| board; together, the pair brought the "English Cottage" model | 4 |
| to the school, which called for small individual homes managed | 5 |
| by a housemother in lieu of large congregate care orphanages; | 6 |
| in 1913, the name of the school was changed to the Park Ridge | 7 |
| School for Girls; and
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| WHEREAS, The Park Ridge School for Girls grew steadily over | 9 |
| the following 60 years, with the program's educational programs | 10 |
| improving dramatically; by the 1950s and 1960s, those living at | 11 |
| the campus attended the local high school and were afforded the | 12 |
| best schooling and opportunities for higher education; in 1977, | 13 |
| the school celebrated its 100th anniversary and the school's | 14 |
| new residential teen pregnancy care program was announced, | 15 |
| making the school one of only 2 such programs in the State; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1980, boys were admitted for the first time to | 17 |
| the Park Ridge School for Girls; that same year, the Teaching | 18 |
| Family model of care was adopted and the name was changed to | 19 |
| the Park Ridge Youth Campus; in 1992, foster care became a new | 20 |
| focus for the organization and prompted the opening of a | 21 |
| Chicago office from which to recruit, train, and support foster | 22 |
| families across the Chicago area; to indicate this broadening | 23 |
| of scope, the organization was renamed The Youth Campus; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1994, The Youth Campus began a program for | 2 |
| Medically Complex Infants treated children suffering from the | 3 |
| effects of drug exposure, which went on for several years; and
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| WHEREAS, Today, The Youth Campus serves hundreds of | 5 |
| children through many programs in its facilities in Park Ridge | 6 |
| and Chicago, including adolescent Residential Treatment in | 7 |
| Park Ridge for girls 12-18 years old, Caregive Support for | 8 |
| biological and foster parents of medically and | 9 |
| developmentally-challenged infants and children in Cook | 10 |
| County, and recruiting, licensing, and training programs for | 11 |
| foster care and adoption; and | 12 |
| WHEREAS, The board and administration of The Youth Campus | 13 |
| serve as models of hard work, integrity, and dedication for the | 14 |
| people of the State of Illinois; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 |
| congratulate the board and administration of The Youth Campus | 18 |
| on the occasion of the organization's 100th anniversary of | 19 |
| service in the City of Park Ridge and wish them continued | 20 |
| success and happiness in the future; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 22 |
| presented to the Board of Directors of The Youth Campus as a |
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| symbol of our esteem and respect.
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