Ascencion Health Childrens Center of Chicago

Ascencion Health Childrens Center of Chicago

Services:
Education and Counseling Services
• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Treatment Approaches

• Activity therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Couples/family therapy
• Group therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents

Type of Care

• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Clients with HIV or AIDS
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with eating disorders

License/Certification/Accreditation

• Federally Qualified Health Center

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Ancillary Services

• Integrated primary care services
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Suicide prevention services
• Case management service
• Intensive case management
• Education services
• Family psychoeducation
• Legal advocacy

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Spanish

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency onsite services
• Crisis intervention team

Testing

• Laboratory testing
• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Pharmacotherapies

• Loxapine
• Chlorpromazine
• Risperidone
• Quetiapine
• Perphenazine
• Trifluoperazine
• Prochlorperazine
• Thioridazine
• Aripiprazole
• Haloperidol
• IIoperidone
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Droperidol
• Thiothixene
• Fluphenazine

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Facility Type

• Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicaid
• Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
• State welfare or child and family services funds
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicare
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
• Private health insurance
• Cash or self-payment

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• Private non-profit organization