Behavioral Health Programs
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If you are experiencing an emergency, please call 911. To request services from Bobby E. Wright, please contact us directly via phone or email.
Phone: (773) 722-7900
Email: intake@bewcbhc.org
FIRST.IL is a comprehensive treatment program for individuals who have had a first episode of a psychotic illness. The FIRST.IL team members work together to provide treatment, information, and support to clients, their families and significant others.
You or someone you know may be:
■ Having serious problems at work or school
■ Seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear
■ Having fixed beliefs not shared by others
■ Withdrawing from social interactions
■ Speaking or thinking in a disorganized way
■ Feeling paranoid
These are all signs that someone may be at risk for a psychotic illness.
For more information on Behavioral Health Treatment or Services:
5002 West Madison Street
Chicago, IL 60644 (773) 722-7900
Early treatment is very important. Research suggests that the sooner treatment of a psychotic illness begins, the better the chances of a faster and more complete recovery. With treatment, people with psychotic illness can and do get better!
“As I often say, in my more than 40 years with schizophrenia, there’s never been a better time to be a person with a serious mental illness. There is more hope now than ever before.”
- Frederick J. Frese, Ph.D. NEOMED Associate Professor of Psychiatry Coordinator, Recovery Project
In partnership with:
RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS
BEW Supported Living Facility (SLF) & Community Support Residential (CSR)
BEW’s residential program serves as a viable community alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.
BEW Supported Living Facility (SLF) & Community Support Residential (CSR) have been in existence for nearly three decades.
BEW provides temporary and transitional housing for male and female adults, 18 years and older, who are experiencing psychiatric, emotional, situational, and environmental crises.
Consumers residing in either the CSR or SLF facilities benefit from a structured, safe, drug-free living environment to enhance their community stabilization and gain/reinforce independent living skills.
The SLF/CSR facilities are located in the Garfield Park area, within walking distance of Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, Inc. Residential Services Program staff also provides medication monitoring on-site to ensure both medication compliance and optimal medication efficacy for the SLF/CSR consumers.
BEW accepts referrals from state and/or community hospitals, including some out-of-state referrals, service providers, and directly from the community via self-referrals.
PATH - HOMELESSNESS
PATH provides intensive case management services to consumers who are experiencing homelessness.
PATH provides intensive case management services to consumers who are homeless and have emotional/behavioral concerns. PATH’s comprehensive assessment identifies presenting needs of each consumer, their functioning levels, and previous life circumstances. Services include:
Treatment plan development addresses individual needs, including, housing, income, medication and daily living skills
Advocacy services for homeless consumers with emotional/behavioral concerns
Consumers gaining access to needed resources
Coordination of services to meet needs of consumers who are homeless
PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
Psychiatric services are offered to enrolled consumers.
BEW provides psychiatric evaluations, prescriptions and medication monitoring for enrolled consumers. The Psychiatrist works closely with the Medical Service Unit in monitoring psychiatric and medical conditions, such as Hypertension, Diabetes, and other serious medical problems.
CASE MANAGEMENT
CASE COORDINATION PROGRAM (CCP) & COMMUNITY SUPPORT TEAM (CST)
The Case Coordination Program (CCP) & Community Support Team (CST) are community-based programs for adults who have emotional/behavioral concerns and need a variety of services to achieve community stabilization.
The Case Coordination Program (CCP) provides services to adults, age 18 +, who have a history of frequent psychiatric hospitalizations and require intensive case management in order to remain stable within the community.
Treatments are guided by individualized treatment plans designed to meet the unique personal and cultural needs of each consumer.
BEW’s Case Coordination program links individual consumers with necessary services and social support within the least restrictive clinically appropriate settings.
Case Managers maintain supportive contact with the consumer to help consumers resolve practical problems.
Case Coordination services include:
Direct access to Psychiatric support
Medication management
Socialization and support groups
Psycho-education groups focused on improving the consumer’s ability to self-manage mental health
Life skills group
The Community Support Team (CST) works with each consumer to:
Prevent frequent hospitalizations
Achieve stability in the community
Manage presenting symptoms utilizing the consumer’s strengths
Through a team approach CST serves every consumer on an as needed basis at BEW, in the community, or at consumer’s place of residence. CST works with each consumer to complete a plan of recovery designed to help them achieve community stabilization. Each recovery plan includes:
Referrals
Psychotropic Medication Monitoring and Training
Daily living skills training (cooking, cleaning, washing, budgeting, managing money and shopping)
SUBSTANCE USE
Addictions Treatment
BEW offers Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Support for Alcohol and Other Drugs. Our treatment is guided by the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
We offer treatment for two Levels of Care:
Level I: Outpatient Treatment occurs in regularly scheduled sessions usually totaling fewer than 9 contact hours per week. Examples include weekly or twice-weekly individual therapy, weekly group therapy, or a combination of the two in association with participation in self-help groups.
Level II: Intensive Outpatient Treatment (including partial hospitalization) - consists of regularly scheduled sessions within a structured program, with a minimum of 9 treatment hours per week. Examples include day or evening programs in which consumers attend a full spectrum of treatment programming but live at home or in special residences. BEW’s Addictions Program addresses:
Intoxication and/or withdrawal potential
Medical conditions
Emotional, behavioral and cognitive conditions
Readiness to change
Relapse potential
The recovery/living environment
Prevention
The Prevention Program, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) emphasize prevention of substance use prior to development of emotional and physical consequences.
Prevention services include:
Provide families with prevention strategies in order to reduce the incidence of Alcohol and Substance Abuse among young people in the community.
Utilize innovative strategies to develop and enhance a network of social supports for the families of high-risk youth
Organize Coalition Meetings
TARGETED POPULATION: Youth enrolled in schools in grades 6th through 12th.
COMMUNITY AREAS SERVED: Chicago’s Westside Communities and Surrounding Areas
DUI PROGRAM
The DUI program works to reduce the incidence and prevalence of DUI offenses.
Our agency is licensed by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Substance Abuse (DASA) and approved by Cook County Circuit Courts to provide treatment services to teenagers and adults who have been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and other illicit drugs.
The DUI program works to reduce the incidence and prevalence of DUI offenses by providing our consumers with assessments, education, early intervention, counseling, treatment services, and aftercare services.
We provide a healthy and supportive atmosphere, treating consumers with dignity and respect. Our professional staff is knowledgeable and experienced in working with circuit courts, probation officers, and Illinois Secretary of State Hearings helping consumers to re-gain or maintain their driving privileges.
In adherence to the circuit courts and Illinois Secretary of State’s requirements, every individual arrested for DUI must undergo an alcohol and drug evaluation before sentencing. This evaluation determines a DUI risk classification.
Based upon the recommendation from an evaluation, we provide services relevant to the following risk classifications:
Minimal Risk
10 hours of DUI risk education classes
Moderate Risk
10 hours of DUI risk education classes
12 hours of early intervention counseling
Significant Risk
10 hours of risk education classes
20 hours of substance abuse treatment
Continuing care counseling
High Risk
75 hours of substance abuse treatment
Continuing care counseling
In addition, BEW provides DUI Evaluations and Updated Evaluations, Required for court and Illinois Secretary of State Hearings.
PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION
Psycho-social Rehabilitation offers each consumer a way to “try again.”
Many consumers with emotional and behavioral concerns experience crisis, which leads to re-hospitalization or incarceration. Psycho-social Rehabilitation offers each consumer a way to “try again” after the crisis. Advocacy and resource development is provided in order to minimize the initial stressors experienced by each consumer. Consumers are able to achieve semi-stable lifestyles once they learn how to move beyond their critical problems. Consumers learn how to express their emotions with family and friends and become involved in group activities.
Psycho-social Rehabilitation provides intervention and learning activities for consumers in the areas of:
Anger Management
Managing symptoms
Problem Solving
Creative Arts
Basic and Advanced Conversational Skills
Depression Management
Cognitive Skills
Goal Setting
Community Living
Medication Management
Social Relationships Building
Relapse Prevention