Mental Health
Main Office (Uptown):
4753 N Broadway, Suite 700, Chicago, IL 60640-4995
Hours: Monday through Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Please call our Uptown Office at 773-293-8443 for an intake appointment. If you need a translator, please request one.
Satellite Office (Chinatown):
211 W 22nd Place, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60616-1901
Hours: Tuesday through Thursday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Please call our Chinatown office at 312-842-1056 for an intake appointment.
The Mental Health Program in Uptown was the first service at the agency provided in 1978. Programming is designed to meet the psychological and social needs of Asian immigrant and refugee communities. The program is Medicaid and Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) certified. In 2001, we opened our Chinatown Office to provide mental health services to the Chinese Community. Services in Chinatown are offered in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. As part of our ongoing commitment to providing mental health education, we provide quarterly workshops on various mental health topics to increase awareness of mental health issues in our Chinatown community.
Our goal is to provide culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate services so that clients can achieve independent and productive lives, and integrate effectively into their communities. Our services are offered in Khmer, Vietnamese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Bosnian, Thai, Hindi, Lao and more.
ADULT MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING SERVICES
This program is for clients ages 18 and over. Individual, Group, Couple and Family Counseling are offered to cope with chronic mental illness, social isolation, acculturation, domestic violence issues. and intergenerational conflict. These services are also offered at our Chinatown office and Family Health Center.
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING SERVICES
We provide counseling for youth ages preschool - 17 and their families. The goal is to help resolve social, emotional, behavioral and academic problems. These services are also offered at our Chinatown office.
The Child and Adolescent program is currently participating in the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health Evidenced Based Treatment Initiative. All of our Child and Adolescent staff are participating in intensive training in Behavioral Parent Training, an approach that has been proven to significantly reduce child behavior problems.
PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
Our psychiatrists provide evaluation and medication monitoring and our bi-lingual staff offers interpretation for our clients and psychiatrists. This service is offered for both our Adult and Child & Adolescent programs.
PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION SERVICES (PSR)
This group service provides a supportive environment for Asian immigrants with chronic mental illness so that they can learn to manage their symptoms, develop practical life skills, focus on their recovery and integrate effectively back into their communities.
Members enrolled in our Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program (PSR) have access to culturally competent, individual, group and family counseling and case management services provided by our Mental Health program. PSR services include:
- Expressive therapies encourage PSR members to non-verbally express themselves through movement, music and art. The expressive therapies serve as effective communication tools to help members overcome language and cultural barriers.
- Groups are curriculum-based and interventions are focused on Evidenced Based Practices.
- PSR relies on members' input to design effective programming. Monthly meetings provide a structured forum for feedback, while individual conversations guide daily activities.
CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
We help our clients have access to necessary case management and community support services, building on their needs, preferences and strengths and providing them linkage to other AHS programs and outside resources.
GROUP SERVICES
For the Elderly: Bi-lingual and bi-cultural weekly groups are offered for elderly clients to help ease depression and isolation, linking them with other needed services and educate the community about problems of untreated depression. We currently have groups offered in Vietnamese and Khmer languages.
For Women: We are offering a women's group called the "Meeting Tree" for women 30-40 years of age. The Meeting Tree serves as a support group to promote growth and self-expressions using the expressive arts as a communal language. This group meets weekly on Thursdays from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. Translation provided in Korean, Cantonese and Vietnamese.
For Men: We are offering a men's group focusing on the expressive arts. This meets weekly on Wednesday's from 3-4 p.m. Translation is provided in Japanese, Khmer and Vietnamese. A group for Bosnian men is also provided on Wednesdays from 2-3 p.m.
Recovery Group: focusing on mental illness and substance abuse. This group is for both men and women and will meet weekly on Thursday's from 3-4:30 p.m. The focus will be recovery based, utilizing motivational interviewing, relapse prevention planning and psycho education. Translation will be provided in Vietnamese, Khmer and Bosnian.
EMERGENCY SERVICES
We maintain 24-hour emergency services for our clients when crisis intervention is required.
