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Change Agents Shifting Minds and Creating a Safety Net for People with Mental Health Issues

insurance, Medicaid or who cannot pay outof-pocket expenses to prevent health issues escalating to hospitalization or a higher level of care, like a nursing home.

• Our Mental Health Recovery Drop-In Center brings people with mental illness together in a non-clinical space to socialize, participate in recreational activities and field trips, and learn new skills. Peer mentors who are advanced in their recovery, work with clients to support successful community integration.

• Team-based, on-call 24/7 services for higher-need clients with acute psychiatric conditions, who have not responded well to traditional mental health services, and typically experience multiple hospitalizations, incarceration, intense poverty, and homelessness.

• Our new mental health center serves a growing population of people with psychiatric issues with individual and group therapy, case management, and a wide variety of skill building groups through our day program, and employment services.

Mental health conditions are treatable. At Envision Unlimited we remain committed to a resiliency and recovery model that helps people achieve their highest potential.

Groundbreaking Expansion for the Elderly with Disabilities

The housing crisis has been felt far and wide, but it hasn’t affected everyone equally. For many elderly people, especially those with limited resources and disabilities, the search for a home can be even more of an uphill battle — the already minuscule pool of housing options further reduced by care and accessibility needs.

It’s a clarion call for change inspired by the fast-growing senior population. More than 46 per cent of people aged 60 years and over have disabilities and more than 250 million older people experience moderate to severe disability, according to the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs. There are real and profound challenges. But with the groundbreaking in April 2022 of the Dream Home, an ADA-compliant group home in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood for seniors with disabilities, Envision Unlimited is creating a new vision for older adults with disabilities who need access to affordable housing, health equity and care.

“It’s a real milestone in our efforts to serve our most vulnerable,” said Mark McHugh, President and CEO. “As our state faces a severe crisis in housing, essential projects, like this development, are critical to ensuring a place for seniors to call home, where they can receive compassionate support and focus on our resident’s medical and mental health concerns.”

The home fulfills a long-held dream for Envision Unlimited. Its construction will enable seniors who are currently living in one of the group homes to age in place rather than move to a nursing home.

Generous support from donors has been received. In addition to cash contributions, in-kind donations include architectural, engineering, interior, civil, electrical, landscaping, environmental design and general contracting services, along with bricks, bricklaying, roofing, windows and doors, lighting, plumping fixtures, tile, granite countertops; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning and installation labor for more donated materials.

The home is expected to be completed in 2023.