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Community Mental Wellness Task Force
The Proviso Township Youth Services Department has formed a task force for the purpose of addressing local parents’ concerns around youth and young adult suicide. The task force convenes monthly and is comprised of local parents, childcare providers, mental health professionals, and youth service department personnel. The goals of the task force are as follows:
- Develop a community mental wellness strategy.
- Empower families to adopt an At-Home Mental Wellness plan.
- Increase community awareness of and access to Suicide Prevention and Mental Wellness Resources.
- Decrease stigma associated with mental illness and overall mental health.
- Reduce suicide and self-harm amongst youth & young adults.
We are currently looking for partners who will support this effort in the following ways.
- Host community town hall around mental wellness at their facility.
- Provide information, resources, and presence at community town hall events.
Passport Library
If you are ready to take steps towards alleviating burdens such as:
- Experiencing homelessness.
- In need of job assistance.
- Experiencing mental health crises.
- In need of in-patient medical care.
- Experiencing criminal or personal litigation.
- In need of teen or parental support
- Or if you are looking to meet with someone on a short-term basis to make an action plan and receive support, please reach out to me. Appointments encouraged, walk-ins accepted.
We provide PHP and IOP levels of care for mental health, this is when you need more the weekly therapy, and less then inpatient treatment. We are the in-between level of care. We help children as young as 5 years old through adulthood with mental health support.
Our organization is prevention based and our staff are trained as positive adult mentor/coaches. Our engagement is focused on that positive adult connection, safe space programming, and pro-social events and activities. The circumstance where individuals should reach out for help from LITE is when a person a youth may be feeling alone or doesn't feel connected to a peer group or a parent or caregiver is concerned about isolating behaviors. LITE works with 16 - 24 year olds and we conduct assessments as well as have a behavioral specialist consultant. If a circumstance is noted by our staff we will support engagement with appropriate services.
The Living Room is a safe place where you can talk with a peer if you are experiencing life’s emotional stresses. The trained peer recovery support specialists use their personal experience to help you find and maintain your recovery. Services are free of charge.
Mental Health Services including Integrated Assessment & Treatment Planning, Therapy, Case Management, Telehealth, and Non-traditional Services.
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Youth ages 13-22 can reach out if they're interested in talk therapy, we can connect them to a partnering therapist and pay up to 12 sessions. or if interested in Community based programming and/or High school programming at Proviso East and PMSA.
We offer preventative services such as groups, 1:1 peer support, and family support. We are able to help teens in 7th - 12th grade, 12 YO and older, who are experiencing a non-urgent crisis. If they are are experiencing a crisis, we encourage them to utilize CARES, 988, 911/nearest emergency room.
Anyone looking for positive programming for young people between the ages of 8-17
should reach out to us.
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