Trinity Services, Inc.

Trinity Services offers a broad range of living options to people with developmental disabilities and mental illness. Settings include group homes (also referred to as community-integrated living arrangements, or CILAs), apartments, intermediate care facilities or ICF/DDs (the Trinity Living Centers), and opportunities for shared living arrangements.

People live independently or with roommates, and they receive staff support as needed, from intermittently to 24 hours a day. Homes are offered in urban, suburban and rural settings in more than 30 Illinois communities. Most are located in Will County and adjacent portions of Cook and DuPage counties. Other homes are located in Southwest Illinois (Belleville and Mascoutah) and Central Illinois (Peoria).

Disabilities and mental illnesses can create barriers to employment, but with the right support, anyone who seeks employment has the potential to obtain and keep a job that they enjoy.

The Career Access Network at Trinity Services seeks to empower and enable people with disabilities and mental illness to secure community-based employment with competitive earnings and benefits. Offices are currently located in Joliet and Homewood. Services include employment opportunity analysis, personal employment planning, personal consulting and training to enhance job-seeking and retention skills, support for developing job preferences, disability awareness training, self-advocacy training, job development and placement, work orientation support, on-site coaching services, follow-up consulting and assistance, job groups and work assessments.

Employment specialists and job coaches provide a strong network of support in every phase of the employment process, taking time to learn each person's strengths, skills, hopes and desires.

The Branch: Well-Being and Enrichment Center is for young adults with developmental disabilities who have graudated high school (or are close to graduation), and who wish to develop job skills, social skills and connections in their communities. It offers a fun, high-tech atmosphere and group social activities.

Trinity is a partner with Plainfield High School and Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital in a national employment services program called Project SEARCH. The hospital has created a lively spot called the Empower Room that is designed to stimulate young minds and prepare them for work opportunities. This is the Project SEARCH host site for the region. Participants are high school seniors. They are immersed in the workplace at the host site each school day for six hours during senior year. When they graduate, they receive support to get and keep a job.

Trinity Services was originally founded as a school in 1950. Today, the school remains a vital support for students with developmental disabilities ages 3-21 in the New Lenox area. When a local school district is unable to provide appropriate services, Trinity School offers an alternative for students with autism or severe developmental delays.

Using applied behavior analysis techniques, students are supported so they can learn functional academic, interpersonal, social and communication skills. A key piece of the educational experience is community integration, including shopping, educational field trips and use of local parks and recreational facilities. The goal of the school program is to help each student develop skills that will allow him or her to return to the local school district.

Trinity School, located in New Lenox, serves about 30 students with disabilities from a wide geographic area.

Trinity provides comprehensive services for persons with a mental illness or a dual diagnosis (mental illness and developmental disability). The therapeutic, housing, employment, learning, and social options support a person to maintain optimal health and self-sufficiency. Outpatient programs provide group therapy and various activities that focus on interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, emotion management, social choices, men's and women's issues, art/craft therapy, nutrition, exercise, and more. Trinity uses evidence-based practices to create a friendly, non-threatening atmosphere for these activities, which promotes better learning and personal growth.
Trinity's Intensive Outpatient Centers, Community Support Teams, and the Trinity Counseling Center are part of the Behavioral Health Network.

The respite program provides relief to families and loved ones of people with developmental disabilities who need a break from caregiving or who are facing unforeseen circumstances. Family crises or medical emergencies, work scheduling issues, needing time to run errands, spending quality time with a spouse or other children, vacations, or just needing a break for some time alone to relax and recharge are some of the reasons families use Trinity’s Respite Program. Trinity offers both in-home and residential respite care.