Reach, Access and ImpactThresholds is Illinois’ oldest and largest organization delivering services to people with severe mental illness. For 50 years, Thresholds has served the greater Chicagoland community with more than 100 program locations in the metropolitan Chicago area and Kankakee and McHenry counties. With its diverse array of services, Thresholds reaches the most vulnerable populations in the area. Whether we are helping someone experiencing homelessness, a deaf person with mental illness, someone struggling with both mental illness and addiction, or an individual looking for education and employment, Thresholds serves its members with compassionate care and innovative programs. More than 7,000 people annually depend on Thresholds to help reclaim their lives and live more independently.Our organization serves people with severe and persistent mental illness with a range of programs designed with the individual’s recovery as a goal. Thresholds provides services in a host of area neighborhoods where access to other services is sometimes unavailable or difficult to obtain. That access to excellence in service is enhanced by a highly trained staff, the use of cutting-edge treatments and the Thresholds mission of providing supports and skills needed to achieve hopeful and successful futures.The impact of Thresholds’ successes with its members can be measured in many ways. Whether a safe place to live, a new sense of self, education or a job, the impact on the lives of Thresholds’ work with its members is immense. The Thresholds team of more than 500 clinical staff provides more than a million service hours of care annually. Nearly 800 Thresholds members reside in agency housing, and outreach staff make another 60,000 visits to members living in the community. Within one year of joining a Thresholds program, 90 percent of Thresholds’ members remain out of costly hospital care and nursing home care.