Pillars Community Services

Programs: Mental health - pillars' mental health services assist our clients to develop strategies to manage the symptoms related to their mental illness and avoid unnecessary hospitalization. We provide recovery-oriented care to help clients fully participate at home, school/work, and in the community. Pillars' mental health services include individual, family, and group counseling, crisis intervention, and linkage to supportive services. Pillars provided mental health services to over 3,500 individuals during the fiscal year.

pillars child and family development center supports the growth and development of children ages 0-5 in strong positive learning environments that provide supportive services to children and their families. Our programs support children's growth and development in a positive learning environment through a variety of holistic comprehensive services that include: early learning: children's readiness for school and beyond is fostered through individualized learning experiences. Through relationships with adults, play, and planned and spontaneous instruction, children grow in many aspects of development. Children progress in social skills and emotional well-being, along with language and literacy learning, and concept development. Health: each child's perceptual, motor, and physical development is supported to permit them to fully explore and function in their environment. All children receive health and development screenings, nutritious meals, oral health and mental health support. Programs connect families with medical, dental, and mental health services to ensure that children are receiving the services they need. Family well-being: parents and families are supported in achieving their own goals, such as housing stability, continued education, and financial security. Programs support and strengthen parent-child relationships and engage families around children's learning and development

pillars' domestic and sexual violence services manage two 24 hour telephone hotlines for domestic violence (dv) and sexual assault survivors respectively. Constance morris house (cmh), the dv program of pillars is comprised of comprehensive residential and nonresidential services, including: temporary, safe shelter with 20 beds and 4 cribs for adult survivors and their dependent children offering a graduated length of stay of up to 4 months; case management and individual and group support; legal advocacy; individual, family and group psychotherapy; onsite health care for shelter residents; outreach, awareness and prevention activities in the communities pillars serves. In fy17, cmh served 853 adults and children providing 8,139 hours of service. The program delivered 7,497 nights of shelter and shelter services to 170 adults and children. The outreach and community education program facilitated 731 presentations and events reaching nearly 12,000 individuals. Pillars' sexual assault (sa) program delivers criminal justice and civil advocacy services; individual and family psychotherapy; medical advocacy to survivors at 7 area hospitals through service agreements with their emergency departments. The sa program provides on-site crisis intervention at six local colleges/universities as well as prevention education and awareness activities for students and training for faculty and administrators. In fy17, pillars sa program served 266 survivors providing 3,910 hours of service. Sa staff facilitated 1,618 awareness, outreach and prevention events, activities and presentations reaching over 30,000 individuals.

housing, addictions, and contractural pass-throughs. Pillars addictions services program treats alcoholism and drug addiction as an illness that affects all aspects of life and the entire family. Through individually tailored treatment plans and the use of evidence-based treatment, the program encourages and supports people to get sober, stay sober and re-build their lives. Services include comprehensive, integrated assessment to determine severity of addiction and appropriate treatment planning; early intervention with consultation and outreach; individual and group evidence based treatment for both the abuse and dependent level client; extended care for clients who have completed primary treatment; tailored services for special populations including groups for women dealing with substance abuse and domestic violence, people dealing with both addiction and mental illness and hispanic services including treatment for men, women and their families by a bilingual, bicultural group leader; outreach services offering referrals, advocacy and case management; and dui risk education classes in both english and spanish our program is licensed by the illinois division of alcoholism and substance abuse and we are accredited by the council on the accreditation of rehabilitation facilities (carf). Pillars provided addictions services to 467 individuals during the fiscal year.