Habilitative Systems Inc. works within an entire ecosystem of health and human services partners. Wellness for our community happens when all service providers join together and work on race and health equity outcomes.
ILLINOIS HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMATION COLLABORATIVES (HTCs)
HSI is a founding member of two state-funded collaboratives to help close gaps in the healthcare and the social service delivery network on the West Side of Chicago. The following two organizations applied for grants as part of the Illinois’ Heathcare Transformation Collaboratives.
Wellness West is a coming together of proven, mission-driven healthcare and social service providers who have deep experience serving the diverse communities of the West Side. Besides HSI, this partnership includes: Access Community Health Network, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, Cook County Health, Humboldt Park Health, The Loretto Hospital, Rush University Medical Center and Sinai Chicago.
Collaborative Bridges is a partnership of healthcare and human service providers designed to tackle the multi-faceted problems of untreated behavioral health illness. The collaborative is closing the gaps, now often fatal, among disjointed islands of service in the acutely underserved communities on Chicago’s West Side. Besides HSI, this group includes: Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4), Hartgrove Behavioral Health Systems, Humboldt Park Health, and The Loretto Hospital.
WESTSIDE COLLABORATIVE PROJECT (R3 PROJECT)
HSI is one of seven providers in this collaborative that evolved from the State of Illinois R3 Restore, Reinvest and Renew, a plan to target communities that have been severely underserved, harmed by violence, excessive incarceration, and economic development. The Westside Collaborative is implementing a violence prevention and reduction approach that provides individuals with opportunities to escape violence through career mentoring, enrichment, re-entry services, and youth development.
TRAUMA-INFORMED CENTERS OF CARE (TICC)
HSI understands the role trauma plays in people’s lives and the traumatic stressors that impact individual’s decision-making. The program, funded by Chicago Department of Public Health/Mental Health, understand the impact of trauma on the individuals we serve and promotes cultural, and organization change in responding to the consumers/clients served as well as responding by integrating knowledge about trauma into practices, and settings. The Trauma-Informed Care program is a service delivery approach with the intention of promoting positive outcomes by emphasizing physical, psychological, and emotional safety and enhancing wellbeing by empowering individuals to define their needs and goals and make choices about their service needs.
HSI BULLYING AND SUICIDE PREVENTION NETWORK
Funded by the Chicago Department of Public Health, Office of Violence Prevention and Behavioral Health, the HSI Bullying and Suicide Prevention Network combines evidence-based prevention practices, social-emotional learning, and restorative practices models with a holistic continuum of wrap around services to effectively serve at-risk youth within Austin, East and West Garfield Park, and North Lawndale communities. Hope + Action: 2022 Impact Report 23
COUNTING ON CHICAGO
HSI formed the Counting on Chicago Coalition with over 30 organizations, which employed over 250 outreach workers to encourage participation in the 2020 census. Counting on Chicago Coalition was the largest Illinois Census Regional Intermediary and largest grant recipient from the state of Illinois.
PRAIRIE MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT, INC.
Provides Property Management services to HSI’s 120 units of 202 senior housing and 40 units of 811 disability housing. Working closely with HSI case managers, Prairie Management Service Coordinators ensure there’s a seamless continuum of care for tenants and their families.
ILLINOIS HEALTH PRACTICE ALLIANCE (IHPA)
HSI is a member agency that provides behavioral health services to attributed members of the Illinois Health Practice Alliance (IHPA), which was created to improve the integration of behavioral and physical health care in the state of Illinois. IHPA serves as a clinically-integrated behavioral health network currently serving Medicaid beneficiaries in collaboration with payors across Illinois.
RUSH REGIONAL LEADERSHIP CENTER AGENCY FUNDING PROGRAM (RUSH Medical Center)
HSI was awarded funding as a subcontractor to provide DUI and other polysubstance use legal assistance services to persons citywide and support successful transition of its Substance Use service to an electronic health platform.