Partners

School-based health care is a powerful tool for achieving health equity among children and adolescents who unjustly experience disparities in outcomes simply because of their race, ethnicity, or family income. It’s also a commonsense idea gaining currency across the country: place critically needed services like medical, behavioral, dental, and vision care directly in schools so that all young people, no matter their zip code, have equal opportunity to learn and grow.

Alexian Brothers Center for Mental Health School-Based Mental Health Services

where health & education intersect

MISSON: Provide individual and group counseling, crisis assessments and referrals onsite to middle- and high-school youth struggling with mental health issues—as well as their parents and teachers.

ABOUT: Everyday adolescents struggle with anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide, attention deficit disorder, bipolar disorder, the emotional trauma of bullying and other disorders along the autism spectrum. According to the National Institute of Mental Health: 20 percent of youth ages 13 to 18 years, and 13 percent of ages 8 to 15 years, live with a mental health condition. To address these issues, the Fitzgerald Family Foundation joined Alexian Brothers Center for Mental Health in providing a mental health counselor onsite in 11 area schools in Chicago’s northwest suburbs; 7 high schools and 4 middle schools.

Fellowship Housing, Inc.

Housing assistance for struggling moms & children

MISSON: To Empower Single Mothers to Build a New Legacy

ABOUT: Fellowship Housing is a 501(c) 3 non-profit, serving over 900 moms and their children since 1991. We have been empowering single moms in our community through our two year transitional housing program for over twenty-seven years. Our mission is to empower single moms to build a new legacy. We do that by breaking the cycle of poverty through providing safe housing in Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Elgin along with a comprehensive two year program guiding them from crisis to long term stability.

Shelter, Inc.

Emergency & longer-term housing for children & adolescents

MISSON: Helping and protecting children who are abused, neglected, dependent or in need of supervision. We do this by providing 24-hour emergency and longer-term care, creating community awareness and education to prevent such abuse and neglect, promoting healthy families to reduce child abuse and neglect.

ABOUT: Shelter, Inc. provides community based, emergency and longer-term housing for children and adolescents who are abused, neglected, dependent or in need of supervision. Since 1975, Shelter, Inc. has provided the emotional and physical care, programs and services that these children need to build safer, healthier and brighter futures.

St. Alexius Women & Children’s Hospital

Medical assistance to Mothers & their children

MISSON: St. Alexius Women & Children's Hospital goal is to create a family-friendly environment to deliver multidisciplinary, collaborative care to this generation and the next. In sickness and in health.

ABOUT: A ground-breaking hospital located on the campus of St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. This state-of-the-art, LEED-certified facility offers women and children convenient access to innovative technologies and treatments—all performed by doctors and nurses with unique specialties in pediatric and women's care.

Royal Family KIDS Camp

Helping children in Foster Care lives better

MISSON: Creating positive, life-changing moments for innocent children who have been victims of neglect, abuse, and abandonment.

ABOUT: We aim to transform lives and communities by interrupting cycles of neglect, abuse and abandonment of children in the foster care system. We fulfill our mission by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the trajectory of young lives which usually include a combination of academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking, homelessness, and incarceration.

Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital

Mental Health & substance abuse programs

MISSON: If you or a family member is struggling with mental health issues, addiction or behavioral disorders, Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital is there for you when life becomes too difficult.

ABOUT: Since 1999, Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital has focused on providing evidence-based behavioral health care for patients and families when they require more intensive treatments. Our 141-bed facility is the 10th largest behavioral health hospital in the country and offers specialized services for mental health and substance abuse problems.

Our Mission:

Empower people to support single moms, create lifetime memories for children in foster care and enhance mental health in our local schools and community. Fitzgerald Family Foundation envisions a local community in which the most vulnerable people will have the power and opportunity to lift themselves out of hopelessness and to create vital, healthy lives for their families and communities now and for the future.

Address:

Fitzgerald Family Foundation
1031 Ridgeview Drive
Inverness, Illinois 60010

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