Programs

Pillars provides proactive individual- and family-driven programming in response to community needs, developing partnerships, securing funding for program implementation, and sustaining innovative programming. 

Our programs include:

Addiction Services offers outpatient treatment for adults and adolescents seeking to overcome drug and alcohol addictions and rebuild their lives.  Prevention is also a high priority and includes school-based initiatives, workshops and educational opportunities and community collaboration. Addictions brochure.

Adult Wrap focuses on keeping older adults in their homes and communities, as well as helps families meet the challenges of caring for older adults through caregiver services.   Adult Wrap brochure.

Buddy's Place offers bereavement counseling for children who have experienced the death of a parent, guardian or significant caregiver.  Buddy's Place brochure

Child and Family Development Center offers Head Start programs and daycare to support families and help children get a good start in life.

Crisis Intervention Services helps stabilize personal and family emergencies involving depression, suicidal behavior and mental illness; family conflict and domestic abuse; acute alcohol and drug issues and sudden traumas which affect entire communities. 

Domestic Violence/Constance Morris House offers shelter and services, including onsite healthcare, legal advocacy and substance abuse counseling, for women and children experiencing domestic violence. 24-hour Crisis Line: 708-485-5254 

Foxfire Day Treatment provides psycho-social care for adults with serious mental illness.  Foxfire has promoted stabilization through the provision of mental health and social rehabilitation services for over 35 years. 

LaGrange Area Transitional Housing (LATH) helps stabilize families at risk of homelessness by providing housing assistance and mentorship guidance. LATH Brochure

Mental Health Services provides individual psychotherapy; couple, family and group therapy; psychiatric evaluation; and ongoing medication as necessary. Specialized offerings include day treatment, post-hospitalization and programs for the chronically mentally ill and homeless.

Safe From the Start provides confidential services for children ages birth through eight and their families who have experienced violence. Safe from the Start brochure

Screening, Assessment and Support Services (SASS) delivers home and community-based services to children and families. This program is designed to deflect children from psychiatric hospitalization. 

Supported Employment  offers counseling (individual and group) and job training, with a focus on helping adults with mental illness succeed in competitive employment.

Wellness Initiative Network (WIN) and West Cook Housing Initiative (WCHIP) are two coalitions that provide permanent supportive housing and related services to homeless adults living with mental illness to help them stay housed.