Programs and Services

Offers recovery-based individual, family, and group therapy services, case management, crisis intervention, community support, and psychiatry. MFS Behavioral Health services promote psychological, social, and emotional development that helps to achieve and maintain recovery. MFS offers Behavioral Health programs to children, adolescents, and adults.

Provides evidence-informed programs to prevent, delay, and reduce substance use among youth and emerging adults, ages 6-25. Services are offered during school hours to middle school and high school students. Programs promote awareness of substance use and the associated risks, offer access to evidence-informed community resources and treatment services, and empower students and their families, school staff and community members.

Offers a supported, shared-apartment living environment for adults with mental illness, with staff on-site 24 hours a day. Staff provide case management, counseling, medication monitoring, transportation to medical appointments, and training in daily living skills.

Operate during non-school hours and expand positive choices and opportunities for youth while achieving academic success. Tutoring, homework help, recreation, life skills, cultural opportunities, and social emotional services are included.

Offers a comprehensive array of services to adult survivors and victims of intimate partner abuse. These services encompass office-based, virtual, and telephone support, and include brief in-person domestic violence case management, counseling, adult educational domestic violence groups, safety planning, crisis intervention, advocacy services, community outreach, referral, and linkage. DVAP also conducts workshops and presentations in the community to enhance awareness of domestic violence services and available resources. All services provided are free, confidential, and offered in both English and Spanish.

For 24-hour emergency services please contact:
Illinois Domestic Violence Help Line
1-877-863-6338
www.thehotline.org

Provide expectant and new parents with education and support they need at the time of their child’s birth and during the most crucial first five years of life. Sessions in the home focus on providing young children experiences that foster healthy growth and development and positive parent-child interactions. Families also meet for activities, to socialize and attend workshops; mental health consultant and family counseling services are available.

provides City of Chicago residents who are out of work or under-employed with job placement assistance. It provides them with a skills assessment, job readiness training and case management that will prepare them to obtain and retain long-term, stable, permanent employment for economic stability.

Works with eligible youth ages 10 to 18 ½ and their families to provide support and services to improve clinical functioning, to improve school performance and attendance, to assist youth in developing social skills and life skills, to provide mentoring and case management, and to link to appropriate referral sources in the community to continue to succeed. These services are provided at home and in the community to youth identified by the court system, schools, and other referral sources as in need via referral screen.

The Caregiver Resource Center links caregivers of older persons, grandparents or other non-parent relatives raising children (who are not more than age 18) and parents or other relatives raising children aged 19-59 who have a severe disability with training and educational opportunities, emotional, financial, and physical resources (i.e. respite) to support the work of caregivers in Calumet, Bloom and Thorton Townships in suburban Cook County. For details on services and contacts, click here.

Providing screening assessment and supportive services, stabilizes crisis situations and provides intensive mental health services to adults, children, and adolescents who are experiencing acute psychiatric episodes. MCR uses intensive community-based intervention to limit psychiatric hospitalizations.

Provides individual support, group and case management services focused on building strong and safe relationships for persons who are at risk of or have used harmful behaviors in relationships. The program is voluntary, free and for people interested in learning more about themselves and ways to improve interactions with those they love.

The Workforce Innovation Opportunities Act (WIOA) is designed to help job seekers access employment, education, training, and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy.

Provides individualized career services and training services by giving priority to recipients of public assistance, other low-income individuals, and individuals who require additional skills training.

Works with individuals who become dislocated because of job loss, mass layoffs, global trade dynamics, or transitions in economic sectors and assists them in re-entry into the workforce.

A collaborative that promotes a collective and holistic approach to serving pregnant women and families with children 0-5. MFS serves as a convener of community stakeholders, parents and caregivers that recognizes having a shared agenda, collective learning and collaborative leadership, and engagement are the key factors in providing pregnant mothers and families the necessary tools for their children to thrive in a healthy, socially, and emotionally stable environment. Through engaging in continuous learning, identifying gaps in services, assessing community needs, and proactively and strategically responding to changes in the local and state-wide community, we hope to educate, inform, prepare and advocate for pregnant women and families with children birth to five.

Operates during non-school hours and provides services to high-risk youth between the ages of 6 and 17. Programs expand the range of choices and opportunities that enable, empower and encourage youth to achieve positive growth and development, improve expectations and capacities for future success, and avoid risk-taking behavior. Programs provide youth with safe environments, caring adult role models, and guide them toward skills and opportunities to serve their communities.

Job Placement with Retention, provides TANF recipients with a variety of activities that help develop and build skills to assist them with finding and maintaining employment.

This program is structured to assist TANF cash recipients in becoming economically stable through obtaining secure and permanent employment. Activities include vocational training, High School Equivalency/GED/ESL, community service, work experience, job search and job readiness activities, job skills training, and education directly related to employment.