You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help them find it within themselves. 

Galileo

Environmental, biological, cultural, social, and personal factors influence people's personality and their reaction to the stresses of life. Often times one is faced with a conflict and is unable to resolve the problem alone. Our staff is dedicated to helping people 末 adults, adolescents, and children 末 find the answers they are looking for within themselves.

ADULT MENTAL HEALTH CARE 

Adult Therapy/Counseling 末 an adult outpatient program which provides individual, marital, family and group therapy for persons 18 and over who are experiencing difficulties resolving inner conflicts and/or conflicts in social systems of which they are members.

Individual Therapy 末 for persons coping with depression, anxiety, loss, or wanting help in developing life enhancement skills.

Family Therapy 末 directed toward issues which involve the entire family; for example, parent-child relationships, school difficulties, single or step parenting adjustments. 

Couple Therapy 末 focuses on sources of marital dissatisfaction or distress, such as poor communication, conflict, and changing roles of men and women. 
Location: Leyden Office, Norwood Office

Adult Psychiatric Services 末 includes psychiatric evaluations as well as prescribing, administering, and monitoring of psychiatric medication for adult clients. 
Location: Leyden Office, Norwood Office

Case Management/Care Continuum of Mental Health Services 末 Case management provides a continuum of services that fluctuate in frequency and intensity as client needs dictate. These services include ongoing linkage and support to a wide range of clients with serious and persistent mental illness. These clients need multiple psychiatric services and a great deal of help with practical problems in living. Coordination with other service providers, including hospital staffs, is done to provide the client with continuous help to cope with their mental illness and deal with the demands of daily living.
Locations: Leyden Office, Norwood Office, Leyden Aftercare Building

Mentally Ill/Substance Abuse (MISA) Services 末 provides residential rehabilitation, inpatient treatment that is customized to the needs of those clients who have both mental illness and substance abuse disorders. In addition to rehabilitation services, specialized case management and psychiatric services are designed to meet each individual's need while in treatment. A comprehensive discharge plan is designed for aftercare.
Location: SHARE

Leyden Adult Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program 末 provided for clients who are in need of more frequent and structured contact than outpatient therapy would provide. The day program includes group involvement on both a social and therapeutic level. It focuses on communication skills, problem solving techniques, vocational and educational tools as well as lifeskills.
Location: Leyden Aftercare Building

Apartment Program to Foster Independent Living 末 known as Transitional Living Program helps previously hospitalized adult clients develop their potential for independent living. This is accomplished through goal-directed, individual and group counseling, as well as providing aid in securing employment and living quarters and giving instruction in cooking, cleaning, and budgeting.
Locations: Leyden Office, Leyden Aftercare Building

Client Aftercare for Mentally Ill 末 our Adult Drop-In Center 末 provides a social and recreational facility for mentally ill clients in order to facilitate community social integration.
Location: Leyden Office, Leyden Aftercare Building

CHILDREN/ ADOLESCENTS MENTAL HEALTH CARE

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Service includes psychiatric evaluations as well as prescribing, administering and monitoring of psychiatric medication for child and adolescent clients. 
Locations: Leyden Office, Norwood Office

System of Care Program (SOC) is a community-based program that provides an array of critical, intensive therapeutic interventions and/or facilitation services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed clients for whom DCFS is legally responsible. The System of Care Program provides a continuum of services for the child, family, and caseworker. The goal is to stabilize children in foster care by intensifying services when needed to children in their home community.

• 24-hour crisis intervention/placement stabilization is available to foster parents or caseworkers. These interventions are targeted to reduce the incidents of children being moved to a new foster home or a more restrictive environment.
  

• Intensive Therapeutic Services provide intensive family or individual therapy to the child in their home once to twice a week. The goal is to maintain the child in the current placement.
  

• Case Management services provide a variety of concrete service or goods to help stabilize the child and placement.
  

• Respite Services are also available to children in their foster home.

These services are available to residents of the Northwestern quadrant of Cook County.
Location: Leyden Office.

Screening Assessment and Support Services (SASS) is a program whose purpose is to promote the well being of children by maintaining them in the least restrictive setting, working with families in their homes or other natural environments. These services are provided in a culturally and linguistically competent manner by master level clinicians.

The Program provides:

• Screening, Assessment and Treatment of any child who may be at risk of psychiatric hospitalization and who is eligible for public funding under any Programs funded by either the Division of Mental Health, Department of Children and Family Services, or Department of Public Aid.
• Access to Coordinate Community-Based Mental Health Services either in lieu of or following in-patient care.
• Linkage of Families and Guardians to the appropriate level of care to meet the mental health needs of the child.

These services are available to residents of Leyden and Proviso Townships in the Chicago area.

Location: Leyden Office

Child and Adolescent Therapy/Counseling 末 an outpatient program which treats clients up to 18 years of age and their family members. The child and adolescent program deals with a variety of problems of varying severity including such issues as individual difficulties, family crisis, parent-child conflicts, school problems and behaviorial difficulties. Types of therapy include individual and family treatment. 
Locations: Leyden Office, Norwood Office