Spectrum Youth and Family Services is the youth services department of the Township of Schaumburg. It is a counseling and social service agency for young people, ages 10 to 21, and their families.
Spectrum?s staff of professional counselors specialize in helping young people talk over and cope with personal, emotional, and family problems, as well as problems with peers, school, behavior, drugs and alcohol, relationships, sexuality, and other concerns.
Parents may come in for counseling services alone, with a spouse or other adult, with younger members of the household, or with the entire family. Professional staff members help parents resolve concerns that keep them from being more effective as parents.
Periodically, Spectrum outreach workers visit schools, shopping centers, arcades, bowling alleys, restaurants, parks and other places where youths typically congregate. In these settings, young people approach the outreach workers for information, referrals and informal counseling, as well as for social conversation. Thus, like the teen centers, outreach offers an informal way for teenagers to get to know staff members and receive services without first having to make the formal commitment of an office visit or appointment.