
Adult Mental Health
Offers case management and psychiatric services to individuals with mental illness to help them live productively and independently in their communities. The program also provides crisis intervention services.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Promotes healthy growth and development through psychiatric services and individual, family and group counseling and community support services to help children and adolescents address problems which may interfere with daily functioning and school performance
Community Schools
Focus on improving academic grades and standardized test scores in reading, math and language. Community Schools operate during non-school hours to expand positive choices and opportunities for youth while achieving academic success. Activities include tutoring, homework help, recreation, life skills and case management services.
Community Support Team
Uses a multi-disciplinary team approach to provide intensive, community-based rehabilitation interventions, outreach and support to adults with serious mental illness. The Community Support Team is designed to meet the diverse needs of clients through home visits, crisis intervention, groups and links to community providers.
Counseling
Builds on individual strengths and capacity for change, while addressing special needs, behavioral and situational problems or
mental illness. Counseling services are offered for children, families,
adults and seniors. Psychiatric services are available at certain centers.
Family Works
Provides case management, employment readiness placement services and counseling to families on Chicago’s South and Southeast Sides as they make their final move under the City of
Chicago’s Plan for Transformation. Family Works focuses on preparing families for success in maintaining current housing and obtaining their optimal permanent housing choice.
Healthy Families
Serves first-time mothers. Case managers make regular home visits beginning during pregnancy. Sessions teach child development and baby health care, enhance parenting skills and build confidence so mothers can create strong nurturing relationships with their babies.
I Can Problem Solve
Teaches elementary school students nonviolent problem-solving skills in class. Teachers and staff are trained and supported in this nationally recognized program. "Raising a Thinking Child," an educational series for parents, teaches parents to use the same problem-solving approach at home.
Mentors of Mothers (MOMs)
Is a school and community partnership that delivers services to pregnant and parenting teens in Chicago Public Schools. Mentor moms and teens meet for group sessions to enhance healthy parent involvement with their children, prevent child abuse, avoid unplanned second pregnancies and to support academic success.
Parents Plus
Promotes healthy child development and helps strengthen the parent’s role as their child’s first teacher. Parents with children ages
birth to 3 years participate in a drop-in program which includes parent-child play activities, field trips, parent education, skill building and resources. Parents Plus also helps promote literacy for parents.
School-Based Services
Provides classroom workshops for students, teachers and parents to enhance skills such as conflict resolution, violence prevention and communication. School-Based services may include individual and group counseling.
Screening Assessment and Supportive Services (SASS)
Stabilizes crisis situations and provides intensive mental health services to children and adolescents who are experiencing acute psychiatric episodes. SASS uses intensive community-based intervention to limit psychiatric hospitalizations.
Thrive Early
Provides mental health assessment and treatment to children ages 0-5 who have psychological or social/emotional development needs. Thrive Early also provides support services for parents and connects them with early childhood referrals and networks.
Young Fathers Program
Helps young fathers become employed, financially self-sufficient and raise healthy children. The program includes job readiness training and placement, money management training and parent education and support. Participants are encouraged to actively nurture and financially support their children.
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