Recovery Opportunities
The mission of Chestnut's Opportunities program is to facilitate the overall recovery process. This is accomplished by creating an environment where hope is evident, and success is celebrated. Opportunities' core principles and activities develop empowerment through active involvement in one's own rehabilitation goal setting.
These services support the belief that recovery is possible for everyone and is a process that is strengthened by five essential recovery values: hope, empowerment, health and wellness, respect, and spirituality and connectedness.
Opportunities is based on the principles of individual choice and recovery and incorporates the active involvement of each individual in their own rehabilitation.
Skill Building
- Interpersonal communication
- Problem-solving
- Coping skills development
- Recovery plan development
- Identifying strengths and preferences
- Health and wellness lifestyles
- Building natural supports
Other Group Services
- Community involvement: Helps individuals learn to use public transportation and access to community resources
- Recovery practice: Assists with the development of activities of daily living including cooking, cleaning, developing a routine, planning, and organization
- Cognitive remediation: Helps individuals improve memory, attention, and problem-solving
For more information, please call 618.877.4420.
Community Support Services
The primary goal of Chestnut's Community Support Services is to help persons living with mental illness to increase independent functioning and quality of life by providing them with support, life skills development, access to local resources and treatment.
Most of our Community Support Services are provided in the community or in the person’s home. Each client is assigned a Community Support Specialist who helps with a variety of tasks, including:
- Learning and performing activities of daily living (i.e. hygiene, money management, budgeting, laundry, and grocery shopping)
- Representative payeeship
- Help finding housing or shelter
- Support and advocacy
- Help with public assistance like Social Security and Medicaid
- Family intervention
- Education on psychiatric diagnosis and treatment options
- Skill-building in natural settings
- Medication monitoring
- Training and linkage to other services like vocational, counseling, skill-building groups, and psychiatric services
For more information, please call 618.877.4420.
Medication Plus
Chestnut's Medication Plus program meets a growing need for persons who need medication for psychiatric concerns and who are on Medicaid.
Medication Plus is about efficiency and effectiveness. It enables adults ages 18 and older to receive multiple services in one visit, including a psychiatric evaluation, vital sign check, writing and filling prescriptions, help connecting to programs like public aid, food stamps, Social Security, transportation and housing, and crisis intervention.
We see patients on Monday through Thursday at our Belleville Illinois location and Monday through Friday at our Granite City Illinois location.
Those on Medicaid and new referrals are welcomed. To make a referral, contact our Medication Plus Coordinator at 618.877.4420.
Senior Services Outreach
Chestnut's Senior Services Outreach program is available for any resident of Madison County, Illinois aged 60 or older. A therapist and case manager work together to provide mental health services in the privacy of the person's home.
Services include:
- Help with independent living
- Assessment for in-home supportive services
- Supportive counseling to help with grief and loss, stress, depression
- Connection to community resources
The Senior Services Outreach Program is the proud recipient of the 2012 Deirdre Johnston Award for Excellence in Innovation for Geriatric Mental Health Outreach Services, presented by the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry.
For more information, please call Lori Fremder at 618.696.2643.
Individual Placements and Support (IPS) Vocational Program for Potential Employees
Chestnut's Individual Placement and Support (IPS) vocational program for potential employees is based on the belief that every person with a severe mental illness is capable of working competitively in the community if the right kind of job and work environment can be found.
An employment specialist can:
- Work closely with your treatment/support system
- Provide assistance with seeing how work can impact your benefits
- Explore different work environments
- Identify your personal preferences with your work wants and needs
- Begin a rapid job search
- Identify job leads
- Support you during the interview process
- Support you once you get the job
- Identify work-related challenges or conflicts on the job
- Provide time-unlimited supports
IPS program services are based in Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois.
To learn more, please call the IPS Vocational Services Coordinator at 618.397.0900.
Individual Placements and Support (IPS) Vocational Program for Potential Employers
Chestnut's IPS vocational program for potential employers can help you meet your diversity hiring goals. The IPS program for employers supports new employee onboarding and provides ongoing support.
Why choose us? Seventy-two percent of IPS program clients stay successfully employed for 90 days or more. Workplace longevity for IPS program participants equals or exceeds that of other employees.
Chestnut job seekers qualify for the Work Opportunity Tax Credit Program. Employers may receive a tax credit of up to $2,400 for hiring a qualified person under this program. We offer specific job matches between employees and employers. A good fit means less turnover, which results in cost savings for the employer.
IPS program services are based in Madison and St. Clair Counties in Illinois.
To learn more, please call the IPS Vocational Services Coordinator at 618.397.0900.