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BUILD's Mental Health Program is designed to increase access to mental health care and substance abuse treatment for young people impacted by these issues. The Clinical Wellness teams offer onsite and school-based counseling, family services, art therapy, restorative justice programs and more. Counselors and therapists integrate their sessions with other BUILD programs, working to eliminate the stigma often associated with mental health care.
Services
Individual Counseling
Mobile Health Care
Group Counseling
Outreach Programs
Hamdard Health Alliance works in close collaboration with our partners to develop culturally relevant health programming. Health Educators work alongside Primary Care Providers to provide the tools, knowledge, and resources individuals need to take control of their health challenges. Hamdard's Outreach and Education department manages all types of community initiatives to ensure that our patient population has the information necessary to make good choices about their health and wellness.
Services
Outreach Programs
General Health Education Programs
Chicago Public Schools operates Student Outreach and Re-Engagement (SOAR) Centers that help link youth and families with the support needed to address the fundamental issues driving lack of engagement in school. The program has four citywide SOAR offices in neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of out-of-school youth.
Chicago Public Schools operates Student Outreach and Re-Engagement (SOAR) Centers that help link youth and families with the support needed to address the fundamental issues driving lack of engagement in school. The program has four citywide SOAR offices in neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of out-of-school youth.
Chicago Public Schools operates Student Outreach and Re-Engagement (SOAR) Centers that help link youth and families with the support needed to address the fundamental issues driving lack of engagement in school. The program has four citywide SOAR offices in neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of out-of-school youth.
Provides the following services for older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers:
- Linkage to available benefits and services.
- Community outreach, providing information and assistance in gaining access to benefits and services in the homes of older adults.
- Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP): Provides Medicare counseling, information and assistance and enrollment assistance.
- Senior Health Assistance Program (SHAP): Provides assistance with benefit applications such as SNAP (Food Stamps), Low Income Subsidy/Extra Help, Medicare Savings Program, and Benefit Access.
- Family Caregiver Support: Provides information, assistance, and referrals for individuals caring for a family member.
- Options Counseling: Assistance for adults and caregivers through an independent decision support process to determine community based care choices.
- Recreation programs.
Services
Information and Referral
Senior Centers
Outreach Programs
La Casa Norte's Public Health Ambassadors youth outreach program works to curb health inequities in Chicago. Based at the Community Assistance Office, youth ages 16 through 24 earn a stipend while training to be advocates for their neighborhoods. Youth ambassadors help their communities access vaccines and other resources, including rental and internet assistance.
Services
Outreach Programs
Directs individuals and/or their family members to available services and community resources which meet the individual's expressed need, such as enrollment activities related to the pharmaceutical assistance programs such as Medicare Part D.
Services
Outreach Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Information and Referral
Visit the homes of county residents as requested in order to identify their needs and assist them in getting the services required to meet those needs. Assists in completing various application forms, such as Medicare, Medicaid, Income Tax, Benefits Access Applications, and Insurance forms.
Services
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Outreach Programs
Chicago Public Schools operates Student Outreach and Re-Engagement (SOAR) Centers that help link youth and families with the support needed to address the fundamental issues driving lack of engagement in school. The program has four citywide SOAR offices in neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of out-of-school youth.
Breakthrough provides a long-term, comprehensive approach to reducing violence in Chicago for adolescents and adults ages 13+. Through prevention, intervention, and restoration, Breakthrough's Violence Prevention team works year-round to increase hope in the community by creating opportunities for residents most at risk of violence to pursue a safe, stable and engaged East Garfield Park.
Services
General Crime Prevention Programs
Outreach Programs
Corazón's Department of Health Services specializes in delivering sexual health care services in a non-judgmental, sex-positive, and LBGTQ+ affirming setting. They offer confidential testing and counseling for HIV, gonorrhea, and chlamydia Monday through Friday (walk-ins always available) and supply free condoms and safer sex kits. They also provide referrals for other client needs, such as mental health, domestic violence, and much more. In support of the community's youth, they partner with Morton East High School in Cicero and Heritage Middle School in Berwyn to offer classes on sexual health and teen pregnancy prevention.
Services
Mobile Health Care
General Sexuality/Reproductive Health Education
Community Wellness Programs
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening
Contraception
Outreach Programs
Confidential HIV Testing
Hispanic/Latino Community
Home visits to adults to assess needs, inform individuals of services available, and to assist them in accessing needed services.
Help with applications for Benefits Access Application, Medicare Part D, and more. As well as information and referrals for other social services, including grandparents raising grandchildren.
Services
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Outreach Programs
Information and Referral
The SAFE Ambassadors travel all over the city educating people of all ages and backgrounds about pedestrian and bicycling safety. The Ambassadors offer presentations, safety literature, and bicycling activities at parks, schools, on-street events, and other locations. The Ambassadors can also provide tools for seniors to navigate 311, reach out to elected officials, access transportation resources, and select safe routes through their neighborhoods.
Provides intensive behavioral health treatment to adults with severe mental illness. Offers services in a community-based setting by an team of mental health professionals.
Programs range from one of three levels of treatment intensity:
- The Assertive Community Treatment
- The less intensive Community Support
- The Community Support Individual. Considered the final level of service before full self-sufficiency.
Offers a multidisciplinary approach of intensive services provided where and when needed, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Teams include peer support specialists and practitioners with expertise in:
- Psychiatry
- Nursing
- Social work
- Substance use treatment
- Employment
These teams initiate:
- A housing search
- Developing a care plan
- Continuing to work with clients over the long-term.
Offers Senior Information Service (SIS) Outreach & Referral. Assistance is provided in our office, over the phone, during home visits by our Outreach SIS workers at our workshops held throughout Iroquois County.
Assistance includes:
- Answer all questions including qualification questions.
- Assess clients' needs and make client referrals.
- Help clients fill out and file application/documents required for various programs such as Benefit Access Application, P-Tax form, Senior Citizen Homestead Tax Freeze form, Medicare Part D and pharmaceutical programs, Medicaid/Snap applications, Social Security Extra Help program, and AARP Income Tax (only low income, times and days will vary each year).
- Advocate on behalf of clients to assure access to needed services.
Services
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Outreach Programs
Information and Referral
Offers educational opportunities and resources to service members, veterans, and their families. Trainings include:
- Mental health and PTSD awareness
- Military culture teach-ins
- School outreach to share military/veteran history
- Other speaking/educational engagements as requested
Services
Outreach Programs
BUILD's Mental Health Program is designed to increase access to mental health care and substance abuse treatment for young people impacted by these issues. The Clinical Wellness teams offer onsite and school-based counseling, family services, art therapy, restorative justice programs and more. Counselors and therapists integrate their sessions with other BUILD programs, working to eliminate the stigma often associated with mental health care.
Services
Individual Counseling
Mobile Health Care
Group Counseling
Outreach Programs
Designed to reach out to seniors to assist them in many ways:
- Insures that each senior is aware of services available to them.
- Helps seniors apply for needed services.
- Monitors service delivery to ensure that service begins promptly and continues satisfactorily.
Services
Outreach Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Provides education and immigration outreach services to Latino and other immigrant residents of Douglas County and the surrounding area.
Services
Information and Referral
Citizenship Education
Outreach Programs
English as a Second Language
Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP) - Counseling and advocacy for individuals who have problems or questions about Medicare, Medicare Part D, health insurance, and long-term care insurance.
Senior Health Assistance Program (SHAP) - Information and help filling out applications for programs such as Medicare Part D and Benefits Access Application.
Services
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Information and Referral
Outreach Programs
Medicare Information/Counseling
Home visits to adults to assess needs, inform individuals of services available, and to assist them in accessing needed services.
Help with applications for Benefits Access Application, Medicare Part D, and more. As well as information and referrals for other social services, including grandparents raising grandchildren.
Services
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Outreach Programs
Information and Referral
SHIP/SHAP counselors are on site to help seniors with understanding Medicare and other health insurance, and with signing up for Medicare Part D, Medicare Savings Program, Benefits Access Application, etc.
Services
Medicare Information/Counseling
Outreach Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Home visits are made to seniors and their families informing them of programs that will enable them to remain as independent and living at home as long as possible. The senior information specialist assists with benefits applications, answers questions concerning Medicare, supplemental insurance, help at home, and more.
Services
Outreach Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Directs individuals and/or their family members to available services and community resources which meet the individual's expressed need, such as enrollment activities related to the pharmaceutical assistance programs such as Medicare Part D.
Services
Outreach Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Information and Referral