LifeLinks

LifeLinks is a mental health counselor in Mattoon, Illinois. The agency provides outpatient behavioral health services to children, adolescents, adults, and families across the region, with a service menu that includes Child and Adolescent Services, Crisis Services, Community Support Services, Individual Placement and Support, FIRST.IL, Adult Outpatient Services, and Family Services. LifeLinks also partners with the Illinois Call4Calm Text Line Service, where people in distress can text TALK to 552020, or HABLAR for Spanish, to reach a listening ear. Requests for services are handled through the Access Center at 217-238-5700. The agency holds a rating of 3.40 based on 5 reviews.

LifeLinks operates as a 501c3 not for profit organization with a stated mission of designing and delivering high quality, cost effective outpatient behavioral health services oriented toward consumer recovery and responsive to the needs of consumers, their families, and the community. Its guiding values are responsiveness, excellence, sensitivity, professionalism, ethics, compassion, and teamwork. The agency works with both individuals and the wider family unit, offering short term counseling for children, adolescents, and families on an individual and group basis, collaborating with schools to support children with behavior or emotional disorders, and providing community support services for adults living with serious and persistent mental illness such as bipolar disorder, major depression, or schizophrenia. A program called Caregiver Connections provides training, technical assistance, early childhood mental health consultation, and referrals to home and center based child care providers in Coles, Cumberland, Clark, Edgar, Moultrie, and Shelby counties in East Central Illinois, reachable at 217-549-7565. Outpatient Services are available 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Friday, with Community Support Services on the same schedule and Connections running 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Friday.

The office sits on Broadway Avenue East, about a quarter mile from a World War II tank memorial and Peterson Park, roughly half a mile from Cunningham Park, and around six tenths of a mile from Washington Elementary School. Charleston Avenue, a main road through the area, is about four tenths of a mile away.

As a not for profit community based agency serving East Central Illinois, LifeLinks offers a broad continuum of outpatient mental health care for every age group, with offices in Mattoon and an outreach footprint that reaches six surrounding counties.