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Mental Health Outpatient provides holistic services for all levels of mental health for adults, children, and their families. Our goal is to have our consumers learn to manage their illness and avoid unnecessary hospitalization.
Foxfire Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program is designed to bring consumers with serious mental illness to a healthier, more productive and independent lifestyle.
Employment Services helps adults with serious mental illness quickly find and maintain competitive jobs.
Med Clinic staff monitors clients, schedules psychiatric appointments, obtains insurance authorizations, faciliates referrals, maintains up-to-date medication lists on clients, handles medication refills, coordinates with pharmacy services and serves as a liason between therapist and psychiatrist.
Managed Care services are provided for individuals with private insurance upon medical necessity and in keeping with accepted standards of care. Should an individual require mental health services beyond their benefit limit or scope of benefit provided, clients are referred to the appropriate mental health resource.
Family Service Program includes outpatient, primarily office-based therapy services to children, adults and families.
Early Childhood Mental Health Services offers workshops on topics relevant to parents, i.e.: discipline, school success and structure as well as parenting support groups an psychoeducational groups. In addition, the program offers assessment and intervention services for children who have been identified to have mental health concerns.
Crisis Team 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.
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.
Individual Care Grant (ICG) funded by the State of Illinois, provides support to families with children who have severe mental illness. Pillars' ICG program assists families in LAN 57 (Lyons and Riverside Townships) or LAN 58 (Berwyn, Cicero, Oak Park, River Forest, Upper Stickney Townships) with the application process for the ICG and works with families after they receive the ICG to maintain the grant and all the services that the grant helps to provide.
Therapeutic Behavioral Stabilization is a service for mentally ill children and adolescents that supplements the goals and treatment plans outlined by the clients' therapists. The program works with its participants to achieve individual goals, which typically involve improving social skills, anger management, community behavior and self esteem, in real-life settings within their own neighborhoods. By working with them in a comfortable environment, the program upholds its mission to "maintain kids in their own communities."
Our collaboration with Community Nurse Health Association facilitates integrated primary and mental healthcare. Services provided include comprehensive mental health assessments and ongoing interventions including home-based services for children and office-based services for adults. For more information about Community Nurse Health Association, click here.
For more information regarding our programs or services, please call 708.PILLARS (745.5277).
Resources
ICG Parent Handbook
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