Posted by Al Anile

Erika Vavrik, Director development Orchard Village  (left) Club President Ralph Klein (right)

Jamie Lake, Director of Development at Keshet (left) Club President Ralph Klein (right)

Jennifer Sultz, Development Director Turning Point (left) Club President Ralph Klein (right)

The above representatives received a donation check from the Skokie Valley Club President Ralph Klein for the Rotary Calendar Year of 2018-2019.

Orchard Village

partners with families and communities to optimize personal outcomes for individuals with developmental disabilities through a community-integrated approach.

 

From its core programs for children and adults with intellectual challenges in the Chicago area, to its international consulting work, Keshet serves over 1,000 individuals with disabilities and touches the lives of many more family members, peers, supporters, and other stakeholders around the globe. 
 
For the past 36 years, Keshet has integrated students, campers, residents, and employees with disabilities into over 70 sites in the Chicago area and throughout the Midwest. Globally, Keshet has trained over 15,000 staff members, proving the tools necessary for successful inclusion.
 

Keshet

 
Keshet’s local leadership, comprised of nearly 100 lay leaders from all walks of life, provide the inspiration, direction, and funding required to fulfill the organization’s mission: to do whatever is necessary to allow individuals with disabilities to achieve their potential.
 

Turning Point

 
Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center is an outpatient mental health center with a mission to provide solid support, when you need it most.  We provide expert, affordable and compassionate care to people during some of the most difficult times of their lives.
 
Turning Point was established in 1969 as an area mental health center and has grown to serve residents in communities throughout metropolitan Chicago. We are easily accessible by public transit. We are conveniently located two blocks north of the CTA Yellow Line Oakton Street station, and are on the CTA bus lines #97 and #54A.
 
Our community is diverse. Clients range widely in age, diagnosis, and socioeconomic group. Client cultural, ethnic and religious orientations are as diverse as the staff available to serve them. Fees structured on a sliding scale flex to align with each client’s income.
 
In addition to primarily serving clients in Skokie and the surrounding communities of Morton Grove, Niles, Lincolnwood, and Evanston, Turning Point also sees clients from 47 other communities including clients from as far north as Antioch and McHenry to our western neighbors of Schaumburg and Lombard and south throughout the City of Chicago.
 
Our service is comprehensive. Brief or long-term care is available. Turning Point provides outpatient individual and group therapy for all ages, psychiatric evaluation and medication monitoring, case management, and a residential living program. Turning Point has consistently been awarded the highest rating from The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).