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Offers educational programs that help raise awareness and provides support for suicide prevention. Educates the public about mood disorders and suicide prevention. Promotes policies and legislation that impact suicide and prevention. Provides programs and resources for survivors of suicide loss and people at risk. Also provides in-person and online support group referrals for survivors. For a comprehensive list of resources visit www.afsp.org/suicide-prevention-resources/ *Does not provide its own crisis hotline service.
Offers training course teaching individuals how to support someone experiencing a mental health issue or crisis. Offered as a blended course with portions of the training taking place online and in-person.
Mindfulness practices enable you to have a deeper, clearer, more accepting, and more compassionate awareness of yourself and others. Behavior therapies provide practical, skills-based solutions for coping with a variety of life challenges.
Offers educational programs that help raise awareness and provides support for suicide prevention. Educates the public about mood disorders and suicide prevention. Promotes policies and legislation that impact suicide and prevention. Provides programs and resources for survivors of suicide loss and people at risk. Also provides in-person and online support group referrals for survivors. For a comprehensive list of resources visit www.afsp.org/suicide-prevention-resources/ *Does not provide its own crisis hotline service.
Offers a confidential monthly support group for family and friends supporting a loved one with a mental illness. The group is led by two facilitators who are experienced with taking care of a family member with mental illness. *Also offers virtual monthly support group in Spanish via Zoom.
**Support groups will be held online via Zoom (video conferencing).** Offers general information, resources, and educational sessions related to different mental health topics, including: - Mental health for military service members - Classes for mental health professionals - Presentations for all ages - Mental health in African American communities - Network for all congregations of faith
Mindfulness practices enable you to have a deeper, clearer, more accepting, and more compassionate awareness of yourself and others. Behavior therapies provide practical, skills-based solutions for coping with a variety of life challenges.
The LoSAH Center of Hope/Centro de Esperanza provides mental health care to community residents of Logan Square, Avondale, & Hermosa in Chicago. Because they are taxpayer-funded, they can only serve a specific area of the city. The LoSAH Center offers bilingual individual, couples, & family therapy to individuals with a variety of insurances, as well as uninsured individuals.

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Individual Counseling
Transitional Case/Care Management
Family Counseling
Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis
General Psychiatry
General Mental Health Information/Education
Conjoint Counseling
Evanston Public Library offers a variety of programming related to health and wellness such as conversational events covering mental health topics, HIV testing, and screenings for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

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Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening
General Mental Health Information/Education
Confidential HIV Testing
Different mental health education programs for children, teenagers, parents, teachers, veterans, their families, and employees.
Provides information on the website on various types of mental health challenges and conditions, including depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety, as well as online tools to locate mental health professionals and treatment providers.
Mental health education for seniors.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Chicago provides Family to Family a free 8- or 12-week educational course designed for family members looking to develop skills to support their loved one living with a mental health condition. This group class is led by trained family members with experience supporting a loved one on their mental health journey.

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General Mental Health Information/Education
Families/Friends of Individuals With Mental Health Disorders Support Groups
Offers a confidential monthly support group for family and friends supporting a loved one with a mental illness. The group is led by two facilitators who are experienced with taking care of a family member with mental illness. *Also offers virtual monthly support group in Spanish via Zoom.
Evanston Public Library offers a variety of programming related to health and wellness such as conversational events covering mental health topics, HIV testing, and screenings for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Services

Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening
General Mental Health Information/Education
Confidential HIV Testing
Ending The Silence, a 50-minute presentation for middle and high school students to help them understand mental illness. The program teaches them common warning signs and when, where and how to get help for themselves or for their friends. During the presentation, they hear the reality of what living with a mental health condition is like directly from a young adult with lived experience.
Ignite offers a safe, welcoming space youth can come to whenever they feel the need. A full continuum of services is available under one roof including housing placement, life skills programming, employment support and financial literacy, primary health care, mental health/substance use assessment and treatment, and child care.

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Runaway/Homeless Youth Counseling
Homeless Drop In Centers
Runaway Prevention Programs
NAMI Chicago provides the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), an 8-week wellness class for people with mental health symptoms and conditions. All wellness classes are free, safe, and confidential places to talk things through with others who understand, and are led by people who have had similar experiences too.
American Indian Health Service of Chicago is available to provide outpatient counseling to children, teenagers, and adults who are struggling with depression, anxiety, and/or substance abuse. AIHSC uses evidence-based models while maintaining culturally appropriate trauma care and treatment approaches to substance abuse and suicide prevention. They offer assessments and can connect you or your loved one to available community resources in order to provide a holistic approach.
Ending the Silence is a free, 90-minute presentation designed to give parents and caregivers an opportunity to learn about youth mental health. Participants will learn signs, symptoms, and indicators of mental health conditions and suicide in young people. Parents and caregivers are given ideas about how to help their children, connect with their child's school, and find support.
The Circle Resource Center specializes in serving women from lower socioeconomic groups. The center offers women a number of resources, including psychotherapy in English and in Spanish and a variety of workshops and programming to enrich the women's lives, provide education, social opportunities, and fun for the community.

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Meditation
English as a Second Language
Individual Counseling
Exercise Classes/Groups
Citizenship Education
Parenting Skills Classes
General Mental Health Information/Education
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) offers both in-person and online support groups in addition to providing information about mood disorders and suicide prevention. The website offers links to other resources, including treatment options, clinical trials, and brochures in English and Spanish which may be downloaded for free.

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Websites
Bipolar Disorder
General Mental Health Support Groups
General Mental Health Information/Education
Chronic Depression
NAMI Metro Suburban's Family to Family is a free 8-week mental health first aid training program sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. The course is designed for relatives and close friends of adults with persistent and severe mental illness. The curriculum balances educational materials and skill training with self-care, emotional support, and empowerment.
NAMI Reads is to partner with libraries to promote discussions about mental health. This Public Education program invites the patrons of individual community libraries and local individuals to engage in informed non-stigmatized guided discussions about mental illness with a particular author or professional on various topics.
White Crane's Health Outreach Program strives to provide a comprehensive, holistic, community-based approach to chronic disease prevention in order to reduce the incidence of risk factors for preventable disease (stroke, heart disease, cancer, hypertension, diabetes, pneumonia, flu, osteoporosis, mental illness); to motivate and educate seniors to take control of their health; and to make health care services accessible to low-income, disadvantaged, immigrant, refugee, and minority at-risk elderly.

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Diabetes Screening
General Health Education Programs
Healthy Eating Programs
Blood Pressure Screening
Digital Rectal Examinations
Clinical Cholesterol/Triglycerides Tests
Fall Prevention Programs
General Mental Health Information/Education