If you have questions or comments regarding the Screening, Assessment and Support Services (SASS) program, please Contact Us. If you are in need of SASS Services or experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact the CARES line at 1-800-345-9049.

The youth is presenting a mental health crisis and is in need of an evaluation to determine the most appropriate level of care. If you need SASS services, contact the CARES line at 800-345-9049. Review the SASS brochure (PDF), for additional information.

Together, we can continue to make a positive impact on mental health care. Thank you for being a crucial part of our journey towards continual improvement. ... Screening, Assessment, and Support Service (SASS), is a 90-day intensive based program for children, adolescents and their families in crisis.

April 11, 2025 - If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis or you have concerns for their immediate safety, that they may harm themselves or worry that they may require inpatient psychiatric treatment, please contact the CARES line at 1-800-345-9049 to access mobile crisis response services.

Phone: 847-621-2040 · Fax: 847-258-3120 · SASS: Screening · Assessment & Support Services · Stabilizing children and · adolescents in crisis and · providing support to them · and their families · Screening, Assessment and Support · Services (SASS) provides intensive · mental health ...

SASS services are available by calling the CARES line. CARES stands for Crisis and Referral Entry Services. CARES is a telephone response service that handles mental health crisis calls for children and youth in Illinois.

Pillars Community Health provides both Mobile Hotline Crisis Services and also Screening, Assessment, and Support Services (SASS) to assist children and adolescents experiencing a mental health crisis as well as their families.

May 26, 2023 - Entry into the SASS program must begin with a referral from the CARES line or, if declined by CARES, through the Centerstone Crisis Center. Individuals must reside in Franklin, Madison, Perry, Williamson, or Jackson counties. ... November 3, 2025 marked the completion of Centerstone's historic merger with Brightli. Together, our organization now employs more than 10,000 team members and serves the mental health needs of more than 250,000 people annually.

November 16, 2023 - We are the central intake hub for Illinois’ Mobile Crisis Response (MCR) program and its Screening, Assessment and Support Services (SASS) program. Anyone can call the CARES Crisis line. If you or a person you care about is having a mental health crisis, please call us now at 1-800-345-9049.

check to see if their child can receive SASS services, by calling the: CARES Crisis Line: 1-800-345-9049 (Voice), 1-773-523-4504 (TTY). ... CARES stands for Crisis and Referral Entry Services. CARES is a telephone response · service that handles mental health crisis calls for children and ...

Screening, Assessment, and Support Services, (SASS) is a crisis mental health program for children and adolescents. SASS serves children experiencing a mental health crisis.

A SASS crisis worker will respond to the youth in crisis to complete a crisis screening and make recommendations on · appropriate mental health care, which may include community-based services or inpatient hospitalization. The crisis · screening can be provided in-person, over the phone, or ...

Screening, Assessment and Support Service (SASS) is a statewide crisis program for children and youth. SASS provides intensive mental health services for children and youth who may need hospitalization for mental health care – 1-800-345-9049

SASS services are available by calling the CARES line. ... Resources are available on the website; Presence Resource and Referral Center, Illinois Helpline for Opioids and other Substances, National Suicide Prevention Line ... NAMI DuPage was founded by a group of parents in 1985 as an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a nationwide mental health ...

Screening, Assessment and Support Services (SASS) Program. This statewide initiative: (1) provides screening, assessment and treatment of any child · who may be at risk of psychiatric hospitalization and who is eligible for public funding · under any program funded by one of the three collaborating Departments; (2) enhances access to coordinated community based mental health services either in

From brief solution-focused counseling tailored to address common challenges like depression, anxiety, and stress, to more extensive programs encompassing intensive mental health and substance use treatments, medication management, psycho-social rehabilitation, community and home support, and ...

Screening, Assessment, and Support Services (SASS) for Children ... CARES stands for Crisis and Referral Entry Services. CARES is a telephone · response service that handles mental health crisis calls for children and youth

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The CARES hotline fields SASS screenings at 800.345.9049 for youth who are currently in crisis; calls from Pillars Community Health’s area are then routed to the Pillars Community Health team.

December 7, 2020 - If you, your child, or someone you know is experiencing a crisis or you have concerns for their immediate safety, or that they may require inpatient psychiatric treatment, you can contact the CARES Hotline at (800) 345-9049.