Metropolitan's Mental Health programs and services provide psychiatric evaluation, case management and crisis intervention to help children and adults with chronic mental illness recover and be productive.
To find out if you're eligible for programs, call Metropolitan Family Services at 312-986-4000.
Programs and Services Include
Adult Mental Health
Offers case management and psychiatric services to individuals with mental illness to help them live productively and independently in their communities. The program also provides crisis intervention services.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Promotes healthy growth and development through psychiatric services and individual, family and group counseling and community support services to help children and adolescents address problems which may interfere with daily functioning and school performance.
CILA (Community Integrated Living Arrangement)
Offers a supported, shared-apartment living environment for adults with mental illness, with staff on-site 24 hours a day. Staff provide case management, medication monitoring, transportation to medical appointments and training to learn daily living skills.
Community Support Team
Uses a multi-disciplinary team approach to provide intensive, community-based rehabilitation interventions, outreach and support to adults with serious mental illness. The Community Support Team is designed to meet the diverse needs of clients through home visits, crisis intervention, groups and links to community providers.
Emergency Psych Services
Works closely with local hospital emergency rooms to evaluate the needs of those experiencing severe psychiatric crisis.
Project Thrive at Madison School
Is a partnership among Metropolitan Family Services, Illinois School District 69 and the Skokie Public Library that provides early intervention services for children at risk of developing mental illness or social/emotional problems. Individual, group and family counseling, crisis intervention and case management are offered to selected participants, in addition to workshops that build social/emotional skills, empathy and positive problem solving. Library activities include positive parenting workshops and family literacy.
Screening Assessment and Supportive Services (SASS)
Stabilizes crisis situations and provides intensive mental health services to children and adolescents who are experiencing acute psychiatric episodes. SASS uses intensive community-based intervention to limit psychiatric hospitalizations.
Systems of Care
Is a DCFS-funded program which provides weekly home-based
individual and family therapy to DCFS wards and their foster families to stabilize foster placements. Case management and support are provided along with school intervention. Services typically span 9 - 12 months and include a psychiatric evaluation, medication monitoring, foster parent support and group activities.
Systems of Care (SOC)
Provides crisis response, stabilization and clinically intensive therapeutic services to emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children in the custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). SOC provides intensive services to children who are at risk of placement disruption, are stepping down from a more restrictive setting, need mental health or specialized care, or need continued treatment and stabilization services following involvement with SASS.
Thrive Early
Provides mental health assessment and treatment to children ages 0-5 who have psychological or social/emotional development needs. Thrive Early also provides support services for parents and connects them with early childhood referrals and networks.
Urban Systems of Care
Is a DMH-funded program that provides case management and supportive counseling services to children ages 3-12 and their families residing in the Dearborn, Hilliard and Ickes housing developments.
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