FAMILY and COMMUNITY SERVICES
Central Office
4800 N. Marine Drive, Chicago, IL 60640-4220
Phone: (773) 275-6233
Fax :(773) 275-6288
Englewood Office
845 W. 69th street, Chicago, IL 60621-1709
Phone: (773) 382-4600
Fax: (773) 382-4649
Midway Office
5045 W. 47th Street, Chicago
Phone: (773) 735-6773
Fax: (773) 735-6713
*Arlington Hts.
1616 N. Arlington Hts. Rd. Ste 200, Arlington Heights, IL 60004-3981
Phone: (847) 392-0265
Fax: (847) 392-0274
*Des Plaines
609 W. Dempster, Des Plaines, IL 60016-2651
Phone: (847) 981-9113
Fax: (847) 981-9119
*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
Our vision is to restore and promote individuals, families and communities through crisis intervention, counseling, casework, homemaker, and violence prevention & 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.