INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Indigenous Community Service Center is to create and sustain health and human services excellence and enhance the nature and flow of resources to underserved and/or low-income youth, adult individuals, and families.
About This Cause
ICSC is a holistic community-based agency hub for enriching lives and preparing young people to achieve self-sufficiency, excel academically, and learn marketable skills to further their careers through the following key areas of Educational Support, Academic Enhancement, Social Development, Vocational/Trades, and Life Skill Enrichment. ICSC is a multi-service entity that addresses several spiritual, charitable, and educational services for Indigenous People and other Nationals and Citizens; particularly our youth. These services include but are not limited to, conservation of resources to underserved communities, promotion and encouragement of spiritual, physical, and mental health along with the uplifting of young people to attain a thriving quality of life. Indigenous Community Service Center has served youth and their families since 2014. ICSC provides services throughout metropolitan Chicago and participates in coalitions to network, collaborate, and maximize the services available to our community. Through these partnerships, a comprehensive referral-based network of services is provided, including violence prevention, workforce development, mentoring and academic support, supportive services for those in crisis, and technical assistance to area nonprofits. Services are provided by licensed spiritual counselors, recovery coaches, peer counselors, volunteers, and former school administrators with graduate degrees that are committed to helping our clients and their families realize quality of life through mental/behavioral, recovery, and health supports, instilling nutritional values and building stronger, healthier communities. Our staff includes certified community organizers, certified recovery coaches, and social workers as well as certified drug and alcohol counselors, with a multitude of strengths and specialties. Mental health professionals employed by our agency partners provide services to those needing health and wellness support. In conjunction with many other corporate and community-based partners, ICSC has embarked on a journey to help connect families to the building blocks of economic stability, income, education, and health, by offering an array of services: Individual and Family Counseling, Substance Abuse Treatment, Group Counseling, Expressive Therapy Groups, Prevention Services, Summer Programming and so much more. ICSC ensures people have the tools they need to thrive. ICSC has embarked on a journey to help connect families to the building blocks of economic stability (income, education, and poor health), by offering an array of services: Individual and Family Counseling, Substance Use After-Care Treatment, Group Counseling, Expressive Therapy Groups, Prevention Services, and cultural-arts programming. ICSC ensures people have the tools they need to thrive. ICSC has identified a specified set of Partner Communities around the region that exhibit high need and high potential, as established by income, unemployment, educational and capacity measures. Today we are mobilizing all our asset funding, volunteers, technology, in-kind resources, and partnerships to deliver measurable results that yield collective impact benefits to the clients and communities we serve.