User:KDS4444/Haymarket Center

Haymarket Center, also sometimes called the Haymarket treatment center, the Haymarket detoxification center, the Haymarket House, and the McDermott Center, is a comprehensive alcohol and other drug treatment organization with four facilities in and around Chicago, Illinois. Its main office located in the city of Chicago as well as two satellite locations, one in Schaumburg (called the "Haymarket West" facility) and another on Grand Boulevard. It is licensed by the state of Illinois and receives funding from a number of private, city, state, and federal agencies. Though it offers services to all residents of the State of Illinois in need of alcohol and drug related care, it primarily serves the homeless, indigent, and ex-offender populations.

History

Founded in 1975 by an Irish Catholic priest named Monsignor Ignatius D. McDermott and Dr. James West, Haymarket Center is the largest not-for-profit community-based adult detoxification, residential, and outpatient substance abuse treatment facility in the city of Chicago. Much of this treatment is offered in lieu of incarceration/ criminalization, and is sometimes court-ordered.

It was named for its location, near Haymarket Square, where in the 1880s a clash between striking workers and police brought a dramatic change in society's attitude toward the working poor. The founder's goal here was to bring about as profound a change in the public perception of alcoholism.

This fundamental perspective continues to guide Haymarket Center in pioneering innovative, high quality, community-based, social setting behavioral health programs that are gender responsive, culturally appropriate, and population specific. Although primarily serving homeless, indigent, and ex-offender populations from the south and west side communities of Chicago, Haymarket extends its services to the entirety of Illinois.

Throughout its thirty years of operation, Haymarket Center has remained wholeheartedly devoted to identifying and designing new and progressive methods for furthering our founding mission: “to aid people with chemical dependency in their recovery by providing a continuum of optimal professional care that is responsive to the identified needs of the community.”

Along with this commitment, we have continually been faithful to our guiding principle of providing comprehensive substance abuse treatment and referrals to Chicago’s vastly disregarded and underserved populations regardless of their ability to afford services. Our loyalty to these two fundamental principles has led Haymarket to develop over thirty specialized programs in clinical treatment, serving over 18,000 clients per year.

The James West Haymarket Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center providing community health services and located entirely within the Haymarket Center and provides a variety of services to its clients including physical exams & general health care, mental health assessments, health education, counseling, intake assessment, pre-treatment groups, drug screening, admissions, and referrals

Programs

Haymarket offers the following programs to its residents/ patients:

• Athey Hall – A residential treatment center for chemically-dependent mothers. This treatment facility offers 24 hour support and allows the mother to bring up to two small children with her. This allows treatment to affect not only the mother, but the children as well. Typical enrollment is three to six months. Each client has her own bedroom and a kitchen area is provided.
• Female Furlough and Residential Program- This program is for for pre-trial, pre-sentenced and court mandated women. The residential program is geared towards the incarcerated woman for whom substance abuse may have been a precipitating factor leading to her incarceration; the furlough program is geared towards the same women who are on an Electronic Home Monitoring release
• Maternal Addiction Center – This 32-bed facility is geared toward chemically-dependent pregnant women and is designed to remove the addictive chemical element from the childbirth experience. It is typically free of charge.
• Life Skills – This program is designed to assist new mothers who have lost temporary custody of their child for drug-related reasons. It focuses on educational and vocational needs, with a goal of reuniting the mother with her child. Stays in this 16-bed program usually run from 60-90 days.
• Alternative to Incarceration – This program is available to both men and women, and includes a Rehabilitation Confinement Program (CP) and the Work Release Alternative Program (WRAP). Patients are sent to these programs at the discretion of the sentencing judges. Most are allowed to seek and hold employment outside the Center.
• Men’s Recovery Home – This treatment center offers men who have lost their jobs or family because of alcohol or substance abuse problems a place to stay while getting their life in order. Services such as group or individual therapy sessions, job counseling and placement, GED preparation and referral, and self-help involvement are offered.
• Mentally Ill Substance Abuse Programs (MISA; pronounced MEE-suh) – This 16-bed shelter is funded by the City of Chicago Department of Human Services. Patients are triaged for treatment and services are geared toward getting the patient back on their feet, both mentally and physically. Participants in this program must attend daily treatment sessions during the entire length of their stay which on average lasts 90 days. Treatment sessions are designed to consume most of the patients' waking hours. Staff include a psychiatrist, a clinical psychologist, and a licensed, certified social worker. Accommodations for men are separate from those for women (9-female, 7-male).