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Freedom Behavioral Health Collaborative (FBHC) is a community-based behavioral health initiative operated by Freedom International Outreach Ministries (FIOM), a faith-based nonprofit with deep, multi-generational roots on Chicago’s West Side. FBHC serves as a faith-informed entry point for mental health and substance use care, designed to dismantle systemic barriers to access and cultivate stigma-reducing trust, reaching residents who may otherwise remain wary of formal clinical systems.
Freedom International Outreach Ministries, Inc. is a proud delegate of the Chicago Department of Public Health's Healthy Chicago Mental Health Collective (HC-MHC)
What We're Building
What We're Building
Our Mission:
Our Mission:
To connect individuals and families to coordinated behavioral health care, supportive resources, and community partnerships that empower them to live healthy, stable, and productive lives.
Our Vision:
Our Vision:
Thriving communities where equitable access to mental health care and supportive services allows every person to live with dignity, stability, and purpose.
Our Work:
Our Work:
As a growing provider in the heart of the community, with a heart for the community, Freedom Behavioral Health Collaborative is dedicated to serving residents in Austin, West Garfield Park, East Garfield Park, and North Lawndale — regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.
Launching in Summer 2026, Freedom's 210 Resilience location (210 S Cicero Ave) will be the primary community entry point for those in need of behavioral health support. Using a Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model, care will be routed through three pathways:
Early Intervention:
Early Intervention:
Resilience 210
Resilience 210
Walk-in universal screening, 3–4 brief counseling sessions (Motivational Interviewing), prevention, early intervention, case management, weekly psychoeducation groups, and linkage to housing, SNAP, and social services.
Outpatient Treatment:
Outpatient Treatment:
Clinical Partners @ Resilience 210
Clinical Partners @ Resilience 210
For clients requiring more structured clinical care, warm hand-offs to the Collaborative's clinical partners for in-person (at Resilience 210) and telehealth individual and group outpatient therapy, including CBT, DBT, and Trauma-Focused CBT.
Higher Levels of Care:
Higher Levels of Care:
Intensive Outpatient (IOP) @ Resilience 210
Intensive Outpatient (IOP) @ Resilience 210
Referrals for Intensive Outpatient Programs (at Reslience 210), residential treatment, and psychiatric evaluation and medication management via CDPH Mental Health Clinics and a planned in-house APRN.
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