The Pilsen Wellness Heart, a non-profit neighborhood healthcare group working 14 clinics throughout Chicago and its suburbs, is opening its latest location on the former Our Girl of Good Counsel Church and adjoining properties within the coronary heart of Chicago’s McKinley Park neighborhood.
Wellness middle executives detailed the middle’s companies and answered questions on their new location at 3528 S. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, through the March 1, 2023, assembly of the McKinley Park Civic Affiliation.
“We’re right here to construct neighborhood,” stated Paul Naranjo, division director for Pilsen Wellness Heart. “We’re not simply utilizing a constructing.”
No Methadone
Properties bought by the Pilsen Wellness Heart embody the mid-century trendy constructing at South Hermitage Avenue and West thirty sixth Road.Narajno outlined the anticipated use for the middle, which begins operations on April 3, 2023. Substance abuse prevention companies, counseling for people, teams and households, and disaster intervention and psychiatric care have been a number of the core companies on supply, Naranjo stated.
“No methadone — solely substance use prevention” shall be supplied on the McKinley Park location, Naranjo stated.
Wants Main Renovation
Church properties bought by the middle embody the previous Our Girl of Good Counsel Church, parking heaps on both facet of South Hermitage Avenue and the distinctive mid-Century trendy round constructing on the northwest nook of West thirty sixth Road and South Hermitage Avenue.
“This wants main renovation,” Dr. Francisco Cisneros, president and CEO of the Pilsen Wellness Heart, stated of the round constructing. They may attempt to maintain it, he stated, and so they don’t plan vital adjustments to different buildings.
Staged Rollout
At a value of round $1.5 million, the Pilsen Wellness Heart was the profitable bidder for the properties, Cisneros stated. They received towards different bidders partially due to the worth the Archdiocese of Chicago noticed the middle bringing to the previous church properties, he stated.
Providers on the middle shall be rolled out in levels, stated Dr. Pablo Mercado, program supervisor in control of outpatient behavioral well being companies on the McKinley Park location.
Teen Attain Program
It will start with psychological well being counseling, Cisneros stated, utilizing the rectory house first, then increasing to extra areas of the property as they’re rehabilitated.
Naranjo highlighted the Pilsen Wellness Heart’s Teen Attain initiative, which is a summertime program for ages 11 to 17 offering “a protected house for teenagers,” he stated. Different youth companies embody youth mentoring and substance abuse prevention research and workshops, he stated.
Shut To Folks
Cisneros stated there’s an ideal want for the psychological well being and counseling companies the Pilsen Wellness Heart supplies. “We’ve got an enormous ready listing,” he stated.
The brand new location is a superb match for each the Pilsen Wellness Heart and the McKinley Park neighborhood, Cisneros stated.
“We attempt to be near the place individuals stay,” he stated.
