10537 South Roberts Road, Palos Hills, IL 60465

708-974-2300
Blue Island
13136 South Western Avenue, Blue Island, IL 60406
708-974-5800
Serving Ashland, Beverly, Blue Island, Calumet, Lemont,
Mount Greenwood, Oak Forest, Orland, Lower Stickney;
Palos and Worth Townships

EMOTIONAL WELLNESS
Adoption Preservation provides
home-based intervention to
families formed through adoption
or subsidized guardianship.
Counseling, crisis intervention
and 24-hour on-call assistance
help address adjustment, grief/
loss resolution, attachment,
educational and emotional issues.
This DCFS-supported program
also provides therapeutic respite
services, psycho-educational and
support groups, workshops, and
help securing resources.
Adult Mental Health offers
recovery-based individual
and group therapies, case
management, crisis intervention
and psychiatric services to
individuals with mental illness to
help them achieve and maintain
stability.
Child and Adolescent Mental
Health promotes psychological,
social and emotional
development through psychiatric
services and individual, family
and group counseling, and
community support. Services
help children and adolescents
address problems that interfere
with daily functioning and school
performance.

Community Integrated Living

Arrangement (CILA) 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.

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.

Mental Health Juvenile Justice

works with eligible youth and
their families to provide support
and services to improve clinical
functioning, school performance
and attendance and decrease
recidivism. Counseling, case
management, home and
community-based services are
provided to youth who have had
contact with the juvenile justice
system and display serious mental
health concerns.

Veterans Individual and Family

Program offers outpatient
counseling, psychiatric and
support services to veterans
and their families to help them
manage symptoms, stress and
challenges related to military
service. The program emphasizes
capacity for change while
addressing key challenges,
special needs and adjustment
issues experienced by veterans.

Pre-Admission Screening and

Resident Review Program works
closely with the Department of
Mental Health and the Illinois
Department on Aging to conduct
comprehensive assessments of
adults with mental illness who live
in long-term care facilities and
nursing homes. The evaluation
includes a recommendation on
the consumers readiness to live
in the community autonomously,
and identifies resources needed
after discharge to strengthen
successful community integration.

EMPOWERMENT
Legal Aid at Metropolitan
Southwest provides legal
assistance for housing and
consumer issues to low-income
individuals.

Main Office | 1 North Dearborn, Suite 1000, Chicago, IL 60602 | 312-986-4000 | www.metrofamily.org
Updated August 10, 2016