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Freedom Behavioral Health Collaborative (FBHC) is a community-based behavioral health initiative operated by Freedom International Outreach Ministries (FIOM), a faith-based nonprofit with deep, multi-generational roots on Chicago’s West Side. FBHC serves as a faith-informed entry point for mental health and substance use care, designed to dismantle systemic barriers to access and cultivate stigma-reducing trust, reaching residents who may otherwise remain wary of formal clinical systems.
Freedom International Outreach Ministries, Inc. is a proud delegate of the Chicago Department of Public Health's Healthy Chicago Mental Health Collective (HC-MHC)
Our Mission:
Our Mission:
To connect individuals and families to coordinated behavioral health care, supportive resources, and community partnerships that empower them to live healthy, stable, and productive lives.
Our Vision:
Our Vision:
Thriving communities where equitable access to mental health care and supportive services allows every person to live with dignity, stability, and purpose.
Our Work:
Our Work:
As a growing provider in the heart of the community, with a heart for the community, Freedom Behavioral Health Collaborative is dedicated to serving residents in Austin, West Garfield Park, East Garfield Park, and North Lawndale — regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.
Launching in July 2026, Freedom's 210 Resilience location (210 S Cicero Ave) will be the primary community entry point for those in need of behavioral health support.
Using a Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model, care will be routed through three pathways:
1: Screening & Assessment
1: Screening & Assessment
Walk-in universal screening for mental health and substance use concerns. For clients who screen positively, more in-depth assessment(s) are recommended for level of care recommendations, and when appropriate, diagnostic information.
2: Early Intervention & Case Management with Freedom Behavioral
2: Early Intervention & Case Management with Freedom Behavioral
3–4 brief counseling sessions (Motivational Interviewing) for early intervention with clients at higher risk for substance use and/or mental health concerns. Case management, weekly support and psychoeducation groups, and linkage to housing, SNAP, and social services.
3. Referral to Treatment with our Collaborative Partners
3. Referral to Treatment with our Collaborative Partners
For clients requiring more structured clinical care, warm hand-offs to the Collaborative's clinical partners for in-person and telehealth individual and group outpatient therapy, intensive outpatient (IOP), residential treatment, and psychiatric evaluation and medication management.
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