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In 1983, Southeastern opened Noah House in Waukesha County to expanded services to include AODA treatment and relapse prevention. Noah House is designed to work with up to eight male adolescents, ages 12-17, from Waukesha, Milwaukee and surrounding counties. Intensive individual, group and family counseling are provided during the resident's placement. Staff offer supportive aftercare services to residents discharged home.
Humboldt House Group Home, which originated in 1973, changed its service focus from group care to temporary shelter care services for Milwaukee County youth in 1989. Humboldt House successfully remained a shelter, serving male youth, until early 1997, when it was re-licensed as a group home. Due to a reduction in County contracts Humboldt House was closed and sold in 2006.
In 1993, Southeastern Alternative School opened to provide a community-based educational and treatment initiative program for young adolescents on the south-side of Milwaukee in collaboration with the Council for the Spanish Speaking, Inc. and Genesis Behavioral Services, Inc. The program ended in 1997, but in 1998, Southeastern contracted with Milwaukee Public Schools to provide educational services to behavioral re-assigned junior high school students. This program continues as Southeastern Education Center, which was relocated to Milwaukee's north side in 2001.
The Southeastern Education Center now provides educational services for up to 95 sixth through eighth grade middle school students a semester referred from Milwaukee Public Schools. Since opening, we have provided over 1,000 youth and their families a unique blend of treatment, support and academic services.
In 1995, Southeastern Youth & Family Services became part of Milwaukee's First Time Juvenile Offenders Program by providing education enrollment, recreation/leisure and AODA education services to the program referred youth and their families.
In November of 1998, Southeastern Youth & Family Services opened Circle of Friends, a child care/preschool. After serving more than 1,000 young children over the years, in January 2010 Circle of Friends closed.
Most recently, Southeastern expanded services to meet the needs of at-risk youth in our community. In 2009, our STEPS (Suspension Tools Encouraging Positive Solutions) program pilot was initiated with students from Southeastern Education Center. Further program expansion is expected the Fall of 2010. In addition, services were expanded in February 2010 to include an After-School & Recreation Center (ARC), housed at Southeastern Education Center.
In June 2010, John Molenaar, Southeastern’s founding executive director, retired after 37 years of service. Under John’s leadership, dedicated Southeastern staff served well over 5,500 children, at-risk youth and their families. Throughout the years he remained committed to Southeastern’s caring approach through its motto: “Children are Our Concern”. Without John’s compassion and concern the lives of many young people would be a lot different today!
Currently, Rolling Stone and Unity House group homes, both in Milwaukee County, each serve up to eight male youth, ages 12-17, who are adjudicated delinquent or CHIPS. In July 2010, Rolling Stone began providing specialized Independent Living services. A well-qualified team of youth care and social services staff provides support services, individual, group, and family counseling, tutoring, recreational programming and life skill development services. A network of community resources is utilized for education, mental health, expanded independent living training and other client-needed services.
Southeastern also participates in the training of future social workers by supervising field placement students from the School of Social Welfare of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Waukesha County Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. The agency is a member of the Wisconsin Association of Families and Children's Agencies, the Wisconsin Association of Child and Youth Care Professionals, The Volunteer Center of Milwaukee and Milwaukee Mentors.
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