Fayette Companies is a behavioral health organization located in Peoria, Illinois. We provide services for individuals with serious mental illness and substance use disorders through our Human Service Center programs. We also provide services as True North Solutions, focusing on the human factor at work providing employee assistance services and counseling to address life challenges.
Fayette Companies believes in the use of evidence-based practices, which means we incorporate scientific research into our treatments. Fayette also participates in research at the national and international levels.
Our vision is to be a leader of integrated and effective behavioral health services. At Fayette Companies, we believe that recovery is possible.
Fayette’s Statement of Inclusion: Recognizing that differences in individuals may include gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, age, physical and mental abilities, socioeconomic class, language, family, education and life experiences; Fayette Companies is committed to an inclusive environment where people of every background will be able to use our services with an expectation of respectful treatment.
We also believe that hiring and retaining staff with varying perspectives and backgrounds is essential to our organizational mission of engaging people in a life of recovery and helping people live their lives well.
HSC is a Tobacco Free Campus
In the summer of 2011, Human Service Center made a decision that its entire campus will become tobacco free effective January 1, 2013. We made this decision because of concern for the health and well-being of our staff and consumers. From the literature, it is clear that persons with mental illnesses die up to 25 years earlier than the average citizen and suffer increased medical co-morbidity. Smokers with mental illness have more psychiatric symptoms, increased hospitalizations, and require higher dosages of medications. Clients entering treatment for a substance use disorder are more likely to be dependent on nicotine than are members of the general public. Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and deaths in the United States.
If you are interested in quitting tobacco use, please contact the Illinois Lung Association’s Quitline at 1-866-QUIT-YES (1-866-784-8937 or TTY for hearing impaired: 1-800-501-1068. They will provide you with counseling, support and free nicotine replacement products.
