Helps children, adolescents and their families use creative outlets such as painting, drawing and sculpture along with traditional verbal therapy to address complex issues of trauma and grief, resolve behavioral difficulties through development of positive coping skills and to rebuild more trusting and sustained relationships with peers and family. Licensed, graduate-level art therapists present on-site individual, group and family art therapy and provide collaborative art services in the community through partnerships with the Chicago Park District and Chicago Public Schools.

Art Therapy offers therapeutic art activities for adults at several C4 locations. These are structured art opportunities for adults struggling with chronic psychiatric disorders and histories of trauma and abuse by assisting clients in developing healthy skills in self-expression. This is accomplished through the use of non-verbal, symbolic visual communication and the practice of appropriate verbal expression of feelings, thoughts and interpersonal needs in a group context.

C4 provides a wide range of behavioral health care for adults. This care includes brief psychotherapy and group services where the focus is symptom/stress reduction and social/role functioning, intensive services for consumers at high risk of hospitalization who lack daily living skills or have social interpersonal difficulties, as well as services that emphasize the development of independent living, socialization and vocational skills.

The following services are offered:

24-hour Crisis Intervention
Community Living Skills Training
Community Support