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Causes: Community Mental Health Centers, Hot Lines & Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Residential Mental Health Treatment, Suicide Prevention
Mission: Trilogy's mission is to support people in their recovery from mental illness by helping them discover and reclaim their capabilities, life direction and well-being.
Programs: Outreach services: trilogy's outreach services including assertive community treatment (act), community support team (cst), and intake, employ an "evidence based and "best practices" team approach to mental health treatment and are designed to provide full community engagement, crises assessment and intervention, intake, and outreach services throughout the city of chicago and its northern suburbs. These teams provide services for persons living with serious mental illness who present with an immediate need for service due to acute psychiatric decompensation or situational emergencies. They provide linkage to crises services for residents, other service providers, law enforcement, communities of faith, etc.
recovery services: trilogy provides recovery-focused evidence based integrated mental health and primary care for adults with mental illness and co-accuring disorders. We focus on recovery services that are designed to help maximize individuals' independence, self-security, and quality of life by helping identify their own stenghts, talents and interests. We provide our clients with the tools they need to begin and maintain their journey of recovery. Trilogy assists individuals with finding permanent, stable, affordable housing. We provide access to: comunity integrated living arrangements, supervised hosuing, supported housing, and 25 units of permanent supportive housing to hud-qualified homeless people.
outpatient services: trilogy provides a wide array of outpatient services including: integrated dual disorder treatment - a program which serves people with co-occuring disorders by combining substance use services with mental health services; trilogy's nationally recognized supported employment program - trilogy is a learning partner in the johnson & johnson - dartmouth community mental health program, also called the individual placement and support (ips) supported employment learning collaborative. The ips model for supported employment is the most progressive, evidence-based model to be offered to individuals with serious and persistent mental illness and is available to all trilogy clients.
psychiatric leadership: through trilogy's integrated healthcare program and together with our primary healthcare partners - heartland health centers (hhc) and rush university college of nursing - trilogy has improved accessibility and affordability of a trauma informed comprehensive primary and mental healthcare system for many individuals with serious mental illness, co-occurring substance use disorders and co-morbid medical conditions. Trilogy employs contract and staff psychiatrists as part of this effort.