Mental Health Care in Chicago, IL

Chicago Childrens Advocacy Center

What Does Chicago Childrens Advocacy Center Offer?

Chicago Childrens Advocacy Center is a mental health facility at 1240 South Damen Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It offers payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy.

1240 South Damen Avenue
Chicago, IL 60608

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Chicago Childrens Advocacy Center

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • County or local government funds
  • Federal Grants
  • Other State funds
  • Private or Community foundation
  • State welfare or child and family services funds
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents

Language Services

  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Spanish
  • Other languages (excluding Spanish)
  • Russian

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Legal advocacy
  • Case management service

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Illinois lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Chicago Childrens Advocacy Center

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Chicago mental health care page.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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