Mental Health Resources
Rizal Center is a multicultural, multigenerational community and cultural center located in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. It provides a safe, welcoming space where Filipino immigrants and Filipino Americans can feel at home. The center offers food assistance, housing resources, healthcare access, counseling, language access and community advocacy. It also serves as a hub for arts, culture and theater. Its programs and services are open to the Greater Chicago community.
The nonprofit Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago (FACGC) operates Rizal Center. Its programs and classes also include:
For more details about the center, please contact the Filipino American Council of Greater Chicago at (773) 360-8597 or info@rizalcenter.org.
Self-Care and Tips for Talking With Children and Teens about Mental Health
UNICEF provides tips and resources to help you support your child’s and your own mental health. Resources include a mental health quiz, information on common conditions, videos, and conversation starters to help you talk to your kids. The information is available in several languages.
UNICEF resources also include:
- Guides to big conversations
- Self-care for parents
- How to reduce stress
- Mental health tips for infants to pre-teens
To be able to care for the people you love, you must first take care of yourself. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) provides tips, tools and resources to help caregivers take care of themselves.
Suicide Prevention and People With IDD: What You Need to Know
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at a high risk of co-occurring mental health conditions, but this serious issue is often overlooked and misunderstood. The Arc of Illinois provides this “Suicide Prevention and People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: What You Need to Know” fact sheet about signs to look for and ways you can help.
People with IDD may not know how to verbally express what they are feeling or may not use spoken language to communicate. Their behaviors may communicate their feelings more than spoken words. Suicidal thoughts can progress and increase over time. It’s important to notice the signs early on so you can intervene quickly.
SWAN – Shelter, Protect, Advocate, Assist
SWAN protects and advocates for adult victims of abuse, neglect and homelessness. SWAN offers programs and trained staff to help victims in Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Jasper, Jefferson, Hamilton, Lawrence, Marion, Richland, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, and White counties. SWAN programs include:
- Information and assistance for seniors and people with disabilities
- Housing programs for victims of domestic violence and homelessness
- SWAN partner abuse intervention program
- Adult Protective Services (APS) for ages 18 to 59 with disabilities
- Legal advocacy
- Parenting groups, support groups and domestic violence abuser intervention counseling
For immediate help, call the 24-hour Domestic Violence and Temporary Shelter Hotline at (888) 715-6260.
You can also contact SWAN:
- Through its Contact Us page on the website
- By calling an office location (see the list of offices and services for each county)
The Calm Toolbox: Healthy Ways to Cope With Stress
Life can be stressful. The American Academy of Pediatrics Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health has developed “The Calm Toolbox: Healthy Ways to Cope With Stress” to help. It offers activities to help calm your nervous system by slowing your breathing and heart rate, providing a positive distraction or providing a physical outlet for releasing energy.
You can access “The Calm Toolbox: Healthy Ways to Cope With Stress” online.
A PDF version of The Calm Toolkit is also available to download.
The Mighty’s Digital Toolkit for Caregivers
The Mighty provides a digital toolkit to help caregivers learn more about the ins and outs of caregiving and discover helpful resources to utilize along their caregiving journey.
The Mighty’s Digital Toolkit for Caregivers includes:
- A caregiving binder, complete with worksheets to help you better organize important information
- A respite care questionnaire to help you find the perfect respite worker for your specific needs
- A self-care mini-guide to help you destress and prioritize your mental health
Everything included in the toolkit is downloadable, printable and shareable.