Mentoring/tutoring
Individual Counseling: Short-term solution-focused treatment that provides support through family and life transitions, behavioral concerns, and/or mental health and substance abuse issues. Play-based therapy for young children. Family Counseling: For family members of all ages. Parent-Child Relationship Therapy: Attachment-focused therapy with a caregiver and child. Caregivers include biological parent, foster parent, adoptive parent, or kinship placement. Child-Parent Psychotherapy: A parent-child therapy model proven to be effective with children under the age of five, who have been exposed to trauma and their caregivers. Caregivers include biological parent, foster parent, adoptive parent, or kinship placement. Psychiatric Services Psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, medication prescription, and ongoing monitoring for relevant diagnoses. Services provided by licensed psychiatrists and nurses. Therapeutic Groups for Children and Teens Incredible Years Dinosaur School: A weekly two-hour group for children ages four to eight. Dinosaur School focuses on classroom success, understanding feeling, problem solving, anger management, and friendship skills. Girls’ Group: Ongoing same sex groups for girls ages seven to 11, and 12 to 17. Participants learn skills to be successful in everyday life. Topics include self-esteem, healthy expression of feelings, communication, and self-care. Boys’ Group: An ongoing same-sex group for boys ages seven to 11. Participants will learn skills to help manage their anger and communicate their feelings effectively. Therapeutic Groups for Adults Seeking Safety: Supported by research evidence, the group is present-focused, counseling model to help adults attain safety from trauma and/or substance abuse. Directly addresses both trauma and addiction. Primary goals are to reduce trauma and/or substance abuse symptoms and increase safe coping...
Medical, Health Care, Medication, Mental Health, Mentoring/Tutoring, Support Groups, Women, Children, Child Care / 879 views
Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC) supports healthy communities and economies by teaching low-income adults and workers the skills they need to earn a living wage. It goes beyond basic skills training by connecting job seekers with good jobs in the manufacturing sector, and fostering life skills that create a path out of poverty.
Education, Job Services, Mentoring/Tutoring / 795 views
Jane Addams Resource Corporation - Baltimore (JARC) promotes strong communities, businesses and households to ensure that people who work do not live in poverty. JARC provides high quality skills training and support services to help lower-income and unemployed workers achieve self-sufficiency. It also provides economic and workforce development to businesses to improve their competitiveness.
Education, Job Services, Mentoring/Tutoring / 772 views
The Douglas Center is a non-profit organization that provides community day services for individuals with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities. The center provides services for 138 clients on a daily basis. The current facility boasts 40,000 square feet and comprehensive programming, empowering participants to make choices for their personal growth and development. It services individuals with disabilities from ages 18 to 100 residing in Chicago, Skokie, and surrounding suburbs. The center provides unique opportunities for acquiring skills for future employment to learning to manage their disability as they get older. Its comprehensive programs, clinical services, training programs, employment opportunities and seniors program are focused on assisting each individual in the management of their disabilities, while building of self-esteem and developing and/or improving existing social, work and independent living skills.
Education, Elderly Care, Job Services, Mental Health, Mentoring/Tutoring, Support Groups / 590 views
The Moran Center for Youth Advocacy provides integrated legal and social work services to address the critical needs of youth and their families. The Moran Center’s services are free to qualifying individuals. Its Expungement & Sealing Help Desk at the Skokie Courthouse serves any individual with a Cook County criminal record, regardless of age or income. For all other programs, participants must (1) reside within Evanston Township; (2) be 26 or younger or a parent of a school-aged child; (3) live at or below 80% of poverty as determined by HUD.
Crisis, Education, Immigration Assistance, Legal Aid, LGBTQ+, Mentoring/Tutoring, Support Groups / 711 views
The Moran Center for Youth Advocacy provides integrated legal and social work services to address the critical needs of youth and their families. The Moran Center’s services are free to qualifying individuals. Its Expungement & Sealing Help Desk at the Skokie Courthouse serves any individual with a Cook County criminal record, regardless of age or income. For all other programs, participants must (1) reside within Evanston Township; (2) be 26 or younger or a parent of a school-aged child; (3) live at or below 80% of poverty as determined by HUD.
Crisis, Education, Immigration Assistance, Legal Aid, LGBTQ+, Mentoring/Tutoring, Support Groups / 674 views