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.
Families experiencing homelessness alongside serious mental health challenges face overwhelming barriers to stability. Parents are navigating their own health needs while trying to meet the emotional, physical, and educational needs of their children. Without stable housing, these challenges are intensified.
Thresholds’ Mothers Project addresses these urgent needs through two coordinated programs:
PATH Homeless Families Program
Building Flourishing Families (BFF)
Together, these programs provide outreach, case management, housing support, and mental health services to help families stabilize and move forward.
PATH is a community-based case management program for parenting adults with mental health challenges who are experiencing homelessness.
What We Do
Mental Health: Support with therapy and psychiatric services
Housing: Referrals to affordable and supportive housing, plus short-term transition supports
Financial Benefits: Employment support and assistance applying for benefits
Child Care: Connections to childcare and community care providers
Holistic Support: Coordinated case management addressing each family’s barriers to stability
Eligibility
Participants must be a parent or legal guardian, experiencing homelessness or imminent homelessness, and have a diagnosed mental illness.
Contact
For referrals or more information:
Kathy Dougherty
773.537.3890
kathy.dougherty@thresholds.org
Building Flourishing Families provides outreach and mental health services to pregnant and parenting young women ages 16 to 23 who are experiencing homelessness.
BFF staff connect young parents living in shelters, transitional living programs, drop-in centers, or unstable housing with:
Mental health services
Parenting support
Education and employment assistance
Life skills development
Participants may also be eligible to transition into the Mother’s Project Transitional Living Program, where young parents and their children can receive longer-term housing and comprehensive support.
