FAMILY and COMMUNITY SERVICES

Our vision is to restore and promote individuals, families and communities through crisis intervention, counseling, casework, homemaker and violence prevention and intervention services. We assist all persons, regardless of age, race, religion, socio-economic level or disability. Each individual has self-worth and the right to self-determination. With appropriate assistance, persons have the ability to change themselves and their situations.

We are especially committed to families who are most in need and vulnerable, who have limited resources and are unable, or do not know how, to find help.

The Salvation Army Family & Community Services provides the following services
throughout Cook County:

Counseling Program:
Holistic counseling provided by masters level, professionally licensed social workers and counselors. Individual, couple, child, family and group treatment for person’s experiencing social or emotional trauma.

Crisis Intervention Services:
Assessment and short-term counseling.

Homemaker Program:
In-home service providing education/mentoring to help families learn parenting skills to reduce stress and prevent child abuse and neglect. Also assists elderly and persons with disabling conditions to live more independently.

Violence Prevention & Intervention Services:
Groups for victims of domestic violence, perpetrators of domestic violence and individuals struggling with anger management issues.

Disaster Services:
Staff trained in Critical Incident Stress Management and coordination of emergency social services, readily available to support Salvation Army disaster teams on an as needed basis throughout the United States.

Victim Case-management Services:
Over the past three years we have provided recovery services to hurricane/flood victims from the Gulf who have relocated to Illinois. Many of these folks lost everything in the storms of September 2005 and are now trying to regroup and start their lives over again in a new part of the country. At present we are providing the same type of services to Midwest flood victims.

Human Trafficking Outreach:
Human trafficking is the entrapment of persons in various slave-like forms of labor and sexual exploitation. This service reaches out to trafficking victims in the Chicago area, enabling them to escape their terrible situation and then assisting them to start a new life and to deal with the trauma they experienced.

Senior Services:
We provide comprehensive counseling and case-management services to frail seniors and their care-givers.

Marriage/family Life Education:
We provide marriage enrichment/family life groups for low income populations.

Family and Community Services work closely with other Salvation Army programs so that all of our clients can benefit from the multiple services offered by The Salvation Army in Metropolitan Chicago.

Central Office 4800 N. Marine Drive Chicago, IL 60640-4220 Phone: (773) 275-6233 Fax: (773) 275-6288	Midway Office 5045 W. 47th Street Chicago, IL 60638 Phone: (773) 735-6773 Fax: (773) 735-6713	*Des Plaines 609 W. Dempster Des Plaines, IL 60016-2651 Phone: (847) 981-9113 Fax: (847) 981-9119
Englewood Office 845 W. 69th Street Chicago, IL 60621-1709 Phone: (773) 382-4600 Fax: (773) 382-4649	*Arlington Hts. 1616 N. Arlington Hts. Rd. Ste 200 Arlington Heights, IL 60004-3981 Phone: (847) 392-0265 Fax: (847) 392-0274	*Hoffman Estates 25 Illinois Blvd. Hoffman Estates, IL 60194-3399 Phone: (847) 885-4060 Fax: (847) 885-7846
*call (847) 392-0265 to set up a counseling appointment.