About Us

Overview

In February of 1976, four not-for-profit providers of alcoholism, mental health and drug abuse services consolidated into a single organization that would become the Human Service Center. The vision was to reduce duplicative costs of separate entities while improving the ability to serve persons with multiple problems.

Today, the Human Service Center, located in Peoria, Illinois, employs approximately 300 individuals, including psychiatrists, physicians, mental health counselors, alcohol and drug counselors, managerial professionals and administrative and support personnel.

Celebrating 30 years in 2006, the Human Service Center offers comprehensive treatment services for adults with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression.

Services range from a 24-hour mobile crisis response through our Emergency Response Service (ERS) to community-based case management. Three full-time psychiatrists and a nurse psychiatric practitioner provide psychiatric evaluation and psychotropic medication prescribing and monitoring. Methadone and suboxone treatment for heroin addiction, a women’s residential treatment program for addiction, and addiction services to certain criminal justice programs are also offered by the Human Service Center.

Human Service Center Foundation

The not-for-profit foundation manages the investments for Fayette related companies and owns several facilities used by Human Service Center and White Oaks.