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Trilogy Partners with Heartland International Health Center to
Expand Integrated Healthcare Clinical Services
In October 2010, Trilogy and Heartland International Health Center (HIHC) received a four-year $1.5 million dollar federal grant from the national Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to expand Trilogy's existing Integrated Healthcare Clinic to provide access to primary healthcare and behavioral health services for individuals with mental illnesses, substance abuse disorders and other medical needs.
With Illinois' budget woes reaching a state of critical mass, many organizations serving the state's poor, elderly, homeless, sick and disabled citizens are struggling to keep their doors open and provide a modicum of services so direly needed by their clients. It is the belief of Trilogy and HIHC that Integrated Healthcare is the model that best serves the client and the community. HIHC has a proven track record of providing comprehensive, culturally competent health care to residents of the north side of Chicago.
The new Trilogy Heartland Healthcare Home project will adopt a holistic approach to treatment in order to help reduce barriers to primary health care and improve the overall quality of life for more than 400 adults with serious mental illness each year. Together, two like-mission organizations can pool resources and form stronger, more impactful and creative approaches to address the needs of individuals and families during this economic downturn. The integration of primary and mental health care provides an effective solution to this problem by helping to greatly reduce these barriers to care and ultimately produces better health outcomes than traditional methods of care.
Trilogy's Integrated Healthcare Program is also generously funded by The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation and the Field Foundation of Illinois. For more information about Heartland International Health Center, visit the website at www.heartlandalliance.org/hhc.
Evanston Community Foundation Awards
Trilogy Funding for Evanston Outreach Services
Trilogy has a long history of providing services for homeless persons in Evanston with serious mental illness who do not have entitlements such as Public Aid and Social Security Recently the State enacted funding cuts that resulted in many of Trilogy's programs, such as our Evanston Outreach Services, to be reduced or eliminated. In the fall of 2010, the Evanston Community Foundation created the Human Needs Grant cycle to benefit programs that were directly affected by the State of Illinois’ budget crisis.
In January of 2011, Trilogy received a $5,000.00 Human Needs Grant from the Evanston Community Foundation to help “bridge the funding gap” created by the state cuts. These funds allowed Trilogy to reinstate its Evanston mental health outreach services at Hilda’s Place—a homeless shelter in Evanston. This award permits us to continue to serve adults with serious mental illness who are homeless, in crisis, and most in need of critical recovery services and assist them in getting entitlements, finding housing and linking them with the medical and psychiatric services they need.
We appreciate this generous funding from the Evanston Community Foundation http://www.evcommfdn.org/home.html.
