| C4 LEADER JOINS NATIONAL BOARD |
| | January 6, 2006
Local Health Leader Serves National Board
Anthony A. Kopera, Ph.D., President and CEO of Community Counseling Centers of Chicago (C4), has been elected Treasurer of the Board of Directors of MHCA, the Mental Health Corporations of America, Inc. Kopera will take office on February 24 at the national organization’s 2006 business meeting in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
MHCA is an alliance of select behavioral health organizations. It is designed to strengthen members' competitive position, enhance their leadership capabilities and facilitate their strategic networking opportunities. Through its commitment to leadership and service excellence MHCA ensures stable services of the highest quality for their members’ customers and their communities. Established in 1984, MHCA is represented now by 143 behavioral health corporations in 33 states. Kopera has been a member of MHCA since 1994 and has served on the Organization’s Executive Committee for several years prior to his election as Treasurer. He has also chaired MHCA’s Future Forum that stimulates creative leadership and anticipates behavioral health trends by examining national and international developments.
Since 1980, Kopera has led C4 in offering a full range of outpatient behavioral health services designed to assist adults, children, and families who struggle with mental illness, substance addiction, emotional trauma and the aftermath of violence. C4 services include: 24-hour crisis response and emergency assessment, short-term counseling, intensive psychotherapy, case management and linkage to community resources, psychiatric and medication evaluations, medication education, pre-vocational programs, residential options, sheltered work center, rehabilitation and socialization, a variety of therapy modalities, including art and expressive therapy, representative payee services as well as behavioral health services for survivors of sexual violence.
C4 was established in 1972 as a grassroots response to a federal policy that left to communities the task of developing services for people who were released from psychiatric hospitals into neighborhoods that were ill-equipped to provide for their needs. Over the years, C4 has developed services to address a multitude of behavioral health issues that exist in the community. With an annual operating budget of more than $18 million and a staff of 300, C4 receives citywide referrals and serves approximately 3,000 consumers monthly. Last year, C4 served 7,000 unduplicated consumers.
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