Kenneth Young Center

We part­ner with com­mu­ni­ties to sup­port peo­ple of all ages to nav­i­gate life’s chal­lenges through per­son­al­ized pre­ven­tion, inter­ven­tion, treat­ment, and recovery.

Community Services

Ken­neth Young Cen­ter is a 501(c)(3) not-for-prof­it fos­ter­ing health­i­er com­mu­ni­ties through:

  • Coun­sel­ing for adults, chil­dren, families
  • Assess­ment, sta­bi­liza­tion, link­age for adults/​children in psy­chi­atric crisis
  • Treat­ment, sup­port, and recov­ery ser­vices for those with seri­ous men­tal
  • Ser­vice coor­di­na­tion and in-home ser­vices for old­er adultsillness
  • Sub­stance use pre­ven­tion and recovery
  • Alco­hol, drug, and preg­nan­cy pre­ven­tion pro­grams for youth
  • LGBTQ+ Cen­ter for youth and young adults
  • Vol­un­teer opportunities
  • We are accred­it­ed by the Joint Com­mis­sion, a nation­al­ly respect­ed body with strin­gent stan­dards of excel­lence in healthcare.
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Our Prevention work

Kenneth Young Center (KYC) has been a leading agency in the field of substance use prevention for the last 10 years.

KYC has been a grantee of prevention grants from Schaumburg Township, Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH), Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and Office of Nation­al Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy (OND­CP).

Meet the Team

Michelle Barron, Community Collaboration Division Deputy Director of Programs
Michelle Barrón
Community Collaboration Deputy Director
of Programs
Brittany Soto, Manager of School Programs
Mia Williams
Community Collaboration
Bilingual Supervisor
Mario Nunez
Bilingual
Project Associate II
Brittany Soto, Manager of School Programs
Josh Massaro
Substance Use Prevention
Project Accoiate II

Our Partners

Townships we serve

Barrington 

Palatine

Wheeling

Northfield

New Trier

Hanover

Schaumburg

Elk Grove

Maine

Niles

Evanston 

Leyden

Norwood Park

River Forest

Oak Park

Berwyn

Cicero

Proviso

Riverside

Lyons

Stickney

Lemont

Palos

Worth

Calumet

Orland

Bremen

Thorton

Rich

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