Thresholds Outpatient and Intensive Outpatient Services are person-centered, trauma-informed, and evidence-based.
Our model is to bring a comprehensive suite of services to wherever our clients are.
Thresholds provides mental health crisis response in Chicago through two programs – our Living Room and our Mobile Crisis Response Team.
The Thresholds Workforce Development Department offers workshops, conferences and other training opportunities.
Thresholds offers groundbreaking programs for adolescents, young adults, families, young mothers, and their children.
Thresholds offers services designed to integrate mental health, substance use, and primary care treatment.
Our mission is to provide data to support decision-making meant to improve quality of care, optimize health outcomes, and lower costs.
The Centers provide a wide range of mental health and substance use treatment services to their immediate surrounding communities in Ravenswood and McHenry County.
The only program of its kind in Illinois, offering services for persons with mental illnesses who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
Thresholds’ Peer Success program is operated by consumers – those who have a lived experience of mental illness.
Thresholds is the largest provider of supported housing in Illinois and provides comprehensive services for persons experiencing homelessness.
Thresholds provides clients with the support and services needed to achieve independence to class members of the Williams Consent Decree.
Thresholds offers services to members of the armed forces who are experiencing PTSD, trauma, substance use disorders, and much more.
Thresholds’ Employment Specialists place clients in jobs of their choice to create real economic independence.
The Thresholds Creative Arts Therapy team, made up of a diverse range of trained art therapists, provides our clients tools for wellness.
Research and evaluation are central to how Thresholds’ Youth & Young Adult Services improve outcomes for young people with serious mental health needs. Through data-driven evaluation, quality improvement, and community partnerships, we strengthen programs, inform best practices, and ensure our services continuously evolve to meet the needs of transition-age youth.
Our dedicated interdisciplinary Evaluation, Research & Quality Improvement (ERQ) Team gathers and analyzes data from across YAYAS programs. Using evidence-based practices and continuous quality improvement methods, we refine program design, track outcomes, and ensure our services remain effective, responsive, and grounded in real-world impact.
What We Do: Core Research & Quality Improvement Activities
Our team includes Quality Improvement Specialists, Evaluation Specialists, the YAYA Advisory Board Coordinator, young adults with lived experience, and interns, all working together to support innovation and improvement across YAYAS.
Publications, Presentations, White Papers, and Practice Tools
Thresholds YAYAS produces helpful information for the field, including academic journal articles, conference workshops, white papers, and a variety of practice tools (e.g., practice guidebooks and activities). See our publication & presentation list here and links to our most popular materials below:
Thresholds also provides consultation and technical assistance to mental health systems and providers across the country. Thresholds leadership leverages research and program evaluation findings while serving as members or advisors with a multitude of state-based agencies and associations.
Thresholds Research & Innovation is led by Vanessa Vorhies Klodnick, PhD, LCSW.
