From the Experts
We are working hard to ensure all people have equal access to the care people need, when they need it. Sometimes that care comes in the form of information. This blog is intended to help you find health tips, answers to questions about mental illness, parenting tips, our thoughts on social issues, and more.
5 Myths About Your Teen and Substance Abuse
Substances are readily available to our children, whether it’s liquor at a family reunion or prescription pills left over from an injury.
A Few Hours a Week to Support Kids and Teens With Mental Illness
In 1994, Pillars Community Health launched a program to provide additional support to children and adolescents living with mental illness.
Volunteer-Driven Sexual Assault Hotline Bolsters the Community
Pillars’ sexual assault hotline is free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day. Its purpose is to provide crisis intervention to survivors of sexual assault, incest, rape, and sex trafficking.
Employment Program Helps Clients Find Jobs Locally
To empower our community around this issue, we offer Individual Placement & Support (IPS) Employment Services to adult clients with a diagnosis of severe mental illness who are unemployed or underemployed.
Training the Next Generation of Clinicians
Pillars’ Student Training Services provide quality training in psychotherapy onsite, which gives interns exposure to work in a community mental health setting and helps us provide quality services to clients.
Suicide Prevention in the Chicago Suburbs
Each year in September, the nation recognizes Suicide Prevention Week. At Pillars Community Health, we understand that suicide isn’t typically the cause of death, it’s the means.
3 Questions With Pillars Community Health’s Crisis/SASS Team
Leah Mizell, LCSW, director of Pillars’ Crisis/SASS program, answers questions about what makes this program so vital—and special.
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