Funded Agencies

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Metro Suburban)

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NAMI operates the Drop-In Center for the mentally ill, providing supervised opportunities for recreation and socialization. The program specifically follows a grass roots rather that a "mental health professional" oriented service model.

Oak Leyden Developmental Services

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This agency provides a wide array of facilitative and rehabilitative services to individuals with developmental disabilities from birth through adulthood:

Developmental Training - vocational training and services for adults with developmental disabilities.

Early Intervention / 0-3 Program - designed for children from birth to age 3 who are risk or have a developmental disability.

Supported Employment - designed to locate, obtain and develop community based jobs for people with disabilities 18 or older; provides placement service and on-site job coaching.

Clinic - provides improved access to care, integration and coordination of services to DD population.

Oak Park Township Senior Services

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Senior Services provides case management services to Oak Park residents including assessment, planning, and follow-up. Through early identification and early intervention, at-risk seniors are able to maintain independent community living.

Parenthesis

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Parenthesis provides services and support to single parents and teen parents. The Family Wrap Program provides intensive counseling, educational services and postpartum depression support groups.

Pillars

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Formerly Community Care Options. As of July 2006, Community Care Options (CCO) and The Pillars Community Services (PCS), two of the Chicago area’s most established and trusted not-for-profit social services organizations, are combining their strengths and merging to become one agency called simply, “Pillars.”

The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Program provides intensive outpatient therapy to seriously emotionally impaired children and adolescents. The Interpersonal Learning Center & Job Coach provides psychiatric rehabilitation in conjunction with vocational rehabilitation for the seriously mentally ill. Substance Abuse program is designed to address issues underlying substance abuse, focusing on adolescents resistant to previous treatment recommendations.