October 20, 2003

For Immediate Release

For more information contact:

Pat Stoiber, Director of Marketing and Fund Development

Youth Service Bureau (YSB)

101 South Jefferson Street

Woodstock, IL. 60098

815.338.7360

pstoiber@ysb4kids.org

 

 

Helpful Information For Reporters 

 

If you need information about youth services in McHenry County, YSB is the place to call.  We employ an experienced staff of professionals whose function is to help the McHenry County families and youth with a wide range of problems.  Below is a handy list of the people we have on staff, their credentials, and their areas of expertise.  If you have a question for a story or feature you are working on, please feel free to call them and use them as a resource.  The YSB staff are becoming known as the Kid Pro’s. 

 

YSB is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, licensed by The Department of Children and Family Services, The Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, and certified to provide Medicaid services.

The attached matrix shows some of the resources available for you at YSB.  They can be reached by calling 815.338.7360.  If you cannot reach them, call Pat Stoiber, and she will locate a professional for you.   

 

YSB is a not-for-profit organization that has been providing prevention programs and counseling services to youth and families in McHenry County since 1975.  YSB is located at 101 South Jefferson Street in Woodstock.  For more information visit the YSB web site at www.ysb4kids.org, or call 815.338.7360.

 

 

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Name/Title

Credentials

Area of Expertise

Susan Krause

Executive Director

B.S. Ed., M.S. Ed., MBA

General Overall Knowledge Source

Martha Cook
Clinical Director

MSW, LCSW, LMFT

Clinical Director

Candy Spasojevich

Prevention Program Director

M.S.

Prevention Programs, schools, teenage pregnancy, anger management, violence prevention, bullying etc.

Penny Meyers

Mentor Program Director

M.S.

Mentoring

Jeanne Swanson –

Delinquency Intervention Director

B.S

Referrals from court system for delinquent youth alternative to corrective institution

Judith Augsburger

Counselor

MA, LPC

Parenting issues, anger management groups, parenting support

Ellie Gross

Substance Abuse Counselor

LCPC, CADC

Substance Abuse programs

Sheila Krubsack

Substance Abuse

M.B.A., CADC

Substance Abuse programs

Eric Cowgill

Intake Counselor

B.S.

Intake/Crisis Counselor takes initial calls to the YSB and

 

Our staff and counselors are highly trained and educated in their field and can offer information, or direct you to where the information resides.

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