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.
Thresholds’ Emerging Adult Program offers three levels of care, including the Emerge Community Support Team (CST); MindStrong First Episode of Psychosis Program (FEP), and MindStrong Early Intervention for Clinical High Risk for psychosis (CHR-p) track. Services are offered in two locations – Chicago’s north and west sides and near west Cook County suburbs. Program participants must reside within geographic catchment areas designated around each site, as services are community-based. Staff primarily meet with young adults in their homes and the area around their homes, though some programs also offer office-based services.
These groundbreaking programs for young adults and their families offer skill development and support needed for young adults to master mental health challenges while reducing the negative impact of those challenges on what matters most to them: relationships, school success, recreational activities, health and wellness, day-to-day living, and early career experiences. Guided
by the latest scientific evidence and recognized best practice, each Emerging Adult program provides a unique array of services that share common core principles and methods. We use the Transition to Independence Process (TIP) Model as our foundational approach. TIP leverages young people’s voice and preference, and empowers them to make decisions, experience outcomes, and learn with the support of their team and self-identified supportive adults. Services are primarily individualized and delivered by a team of mental health professionals trained in each evidence-based approach.
Thresholds’ Emerging Adult Services provides young people with experiential learning within their communities to maximize success.
Emerging Adult Intake can be accessed by calling 773-432-6555 or emailing youngadult@thresholds.org. Staff returns messages within 24 business hours, conducting a brief phone screen with the caller – often a parent, or mental health professional, but sometimes the young adult themself – to gather basic background information. Eligible individuals are scheduled for an in-person intake meeting, ideally within 72 hours, to ensure program services will meet their mental health needs.
All Illinois Medicaid plans are accepted, as are commercial insurance plans; please confirm with your insurance carrier that your plan is contracted at the in-network rate.
Thresholds Emerging Adult Services provides educational workshops to mental health providers, employers, schools, parent/youth groups, and mental health consumers. Emphasis is on assisting mental health providers and consumers to understand the developmental phase of life referred to as Emerging Adulthood; recognize the signs of serious, persistent mental illness, particularly early psychosis and psychosis risk; and know how to respond when young people show signs of risk. Research shows that early intervention and treatment lead to better long-term outcomes. Our goal is to de-stigmatize the discussion of serious mental health problems, particularly psychosis, and encourage individuals and their families to seek treatment as soon as signs are noticed. Reach out to Emerging Adult intake at 773-432-6555 or youngadult@thresholds.org for more information.
