Employee Resource Centers Procare Centers

The filing organization is a part of the ascension catholic Health ministry. Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization that delivers personalized, compassionate care to all, especially to those who need it the most. Presence Behavioral Health (pbh) offers a wide spectrum of high quality and innovative mental Health and addictions services with locations across the city of chicago and surrounding suburbs. Our mental Health center located at 1414 main street in melrose park, Illinois serves the area of proviso and oak park townships. Additional satellite offices are also available in chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Services and programming include: therapy and psychiatry services, case management, group based treatment programs, community support services, 24-hour crisis services, supported residential services, a drop-in center and more. We respond to crisis situations in the community with mobile crisis response teams and a crisis hotline for 24-hour support. We also embed social workers in 14 area police stations. Pbh provides care for all, including the financially disadvantaged, uninsured, under-insured, homeless persons and those who receive public aid. We also serve private pay and insured clients and those seeking specialty services. In fiscal year 2023 the agency served over 10,000 members of our community across our service lines. Our outpatient therapy services provide intervention to those with mental Health needs. Individual and group therapy/counseling is provided to reduce symptoms and enhance techniques in order to maximize wellness and personal potential. Therapy services are available for all age groups, including children, adolescents, young adults, adults and seniors. In fiscal year 2023, our outpatient programs provided therapy services to a total of 7161 clients. This location also has a program called centro de salud familiar which serves the hispanic community by the provision of mental Health and substance abuse counseling, psychiatry, immigration services, domestic violence treatment and family therapy. Psychiatrists, both on site and via telepsychiatry, provide advanced specialty care to adolescents, adults, and older adults with psychiatric evaluations and ongoing medication management. In fiscal year 2023, psychiatric services assisted a total of 8154 clients. Our residential services provide individuals with a supportive environment in the community where they can develop the skills and confidence needed to live in the least restrictive environment possible. These programs include: community living center (clc) and community integrated living arrangement (cila). Clc is not a long term, permanent housing program but rather a skills-building treatment program designed to assist clients in obtaining the skills necessary to move into an independent living situation. The average length of stay is 50 months and the program has a capacity of 20 clients. Cila is a long-term, permanent housing model designed to provide 24-hour care to individuals who need that level of treatment. We operate 3 cila homes in the community with a capacity of 6 clients per 2 of our locations and 7 at the third. Clc and the cila's combined offer 9,685 days and nights of care annually. We also offer pre-admission screenings (pas) for nursing home placement for individuals that require a greater level of care than we can provide in these programs. The Centers psychosocial rehabilitation program is a group based program that provides a recovery-based, skill-building treatment environment for adults diagnosed with a mental illness. The program supports individuals in their efforts to achieve a greater level of self-sufficiency and community functioning. This is a group-based program that operates multiple days a week and also offers supportive, social group programming in our client-led drop-in center. In fiscal 2023 the drop-in center provided 2487 hours of service to 501 members of the community. The case management program is designed to provide services to address specific client needs with the intent to foster treatment success, community integration and independence. Our staff provides community-based supportive services to help clients develop daily living skills, general case management support such as assisting in obtaining social security and public aid benefits assistance, works to connect clients to needed services after being discharged from the hospital and more. We can also assist clients in obtaining appropriate clinical services, medications and transportation. In fiscal year 2023, we provided 719 clients with case management services. Crisis services are available to members of the community 24 hours a day 365 days a week using our crisis hotline. In fiscal year 23, this crisis line recieved 3,600 calls for assistance. Our addictions services provide recovery support for community members seeking services independently as well as those involved in the justice system. Individual and group services include dui education, recovery support, intensive outpatient programming and partial hospitalization programming. In fiscal year 23 we provided addictions services to 685 individuals. Specialized services are provided to the youngest and most vulnerable members of our community. Our child development center (cdc) provides comprehensive early childhood services to children and families. Our home-based early head start program includes weekly visits to families from a home-based educator as well as twice-monthly family socialization events. Our center-based head start and early head start programs provide child care services along with educational enhancements focusing on Health, nutrition, family activities and mental Health services. This program served 41 children and families in fiscal year 23. Our proviso child advocacy center (pcac) provides a child-centered, multidisciplinary team response to child abuse and violence. Efforts are coordinated between law enforcement, the cook county states attorney, dcfs, child abuse medical experts, forensic interviewers, victim advocates and trauma-informed therapists to work on behalf of the child to reduce the impact of trauma, seek justice and ensure the child and their family members receive the support necessary to stabilize and heal. In fiscal year 23 this program served 1052 children and adolescents.