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Causes: Mental Health, Mental Health Treatment
Mission: Provide services for individuals experiencing mental health/ emotional problems by providing a wide range of prevention and intervention programs.
Programs: Medical services - primarily funded by the dept. Of human services and dept. Of health and family services. This program provides psychiatric evaluations, medication review, and crisis evaluations and consultations to children and adults experiencing moderate to severe mental health conditions/ illness.
community support - primarily supported by the il. Dept. Of human services, office of mental health; provides outpatient services (psychiatric, counseling, medication) and case mgmt. (assessment, linkage, monitoring, advocacy, skills training) to persons experiencing moderate to severe mental illness in the community.
residential - primarily supported by the il dept of human services, office of mental health; this program provides supervised and supported group homes and apartments to persons experiencing moderate to severe mental illness in the community.
crisis, access, and respite - services to all persons of all ages identified as experiencing a mental health crisis. Crisis services include immediate crisis assessment, short term crisis stabilization, and referral and linkage 24 hours a day. Also provides supervised residential placement for adults (1-14 days) who are experiencing psychiatric emergencies. The program is for individuals that do not require hospitalization but do require close supervision. Includes individuals being discharged from local psychiatric units and state operated facilities.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.