Abuse Intervention Services (AIP) Services Offered
- Counseling Evaluation
- Partner Abuse Intervention Program (PAIP) IDHS-approved 26 week group counseling
- Anger Management
- Individual Abuse Intervention Counseling
- Caring Dads/Nurturing Moms
- Parenting
Abuse Intervention Counseling Assessment
- Required before entering any group or individual counseling services, with the exception of Love & Logic Parenting classes
To schedule an initial assessment or get more information, please contact the Community Crisis Center 24-hour number at 847-697-2380.
Partner Abuse Intervention Services (PAIP)
The individual will attend weekly group sessions for a minimum of 26 weeks. The IDHS-approved program is designed to help individuals who have used abusive or controlling behaviors in a current or past intimate relationship. Clients may be mandated to attend this program by a court, DCFS, or can choose to voluntarily participate in the program.
Sessions include developing skills for:
- Recognition and identification of abusive behaviors including non-physical forms of violence
- Accepting responsibility for abusive or controlling behaviors and changing attitudes that lead to abusive behavior
- Recognize the warning signs precipitating an abusive incident
- Non-abusive, respectful conflict resolution
- Expressing anger in non-abusive ways
- Accepting responsibility for abusive or controlling behaviors and changing attitudes that lead to abusive behavior
- Assertive, non-aggressive communication
- Achievement and maintenance of non-abusive intimate relationships
- Achievement and maintenance of healthy and non-abusive parenting
- Understanding the dynamics of domestic violence and its impact on partner, children, and society
PAIP groups are available in Elgin, Dundee, and St. Charles. To enroll or get more information, please contact the Community Crisis Center 24-hour number at 847-697-2380
Anger Management/Abuse Intervention Services*
The individual will attend weekly group or individual sessions for a minimum of 12 weeks. The sessions are designed to help individuals who have experienced negative consequences of their anger, or who have used abusive or controlling behaviors towards family members or individuals who are not current or former intimate partners.
Community Crisis Center anger management services are on the 16th Judicial Circuit Anger Management Approved Provider List and are accepted by all courts in Kane County.
Sessions include:
- Acknowledging abusive behavior and accepting responsibility for one’s own actions
- Understanding events and cues that lead to problematic expressions of anger
- Developing a plan for controlling anger and cognitive restructuring
- Identifying and changing the cycle of aggression
- Assertiveness training and the conflict resolution model: alternatives for expressing anger in non-violent ways
- Anger and the family; how past learning can influence present behavior
- Learn and practice assertive communication skills
*Clients who have been abusive in current or past intimate relationships are not eligible for anger management services, and will be referred to the Partner Abuse Intervention Program (PAIP) services.
To enroll or get more information, please contact the Community Crisis Center at 847-697-2380
Caring Dads/Nurturing Moms Program
Individual will attend weekly group or individual sessions for 17 weeks. The Caring Dads Program is for fathers (including biological, step and common-law) who exposed their children to domestic violence, have physically or mentally abused or neglected their children or are at high-risk for these behaviors. Nurturing Moms is the equivalent program for mothers who have used abusive behaviors towards a minor child
Sessions include developing skills to:
- Promote child-centered parenting
- Engage in respectful and non-abusive co-parenting with the child’s other parent
- Learn to recognize the impact of the child’s experience of trauma
To enroll or get more information, please contact the Community Crisis Center at 847-697-2380.
Love & Logic Parenting
Individual will attend 6 weekly group or individual sessions. Love & Logic is a general parenting class for parents of minor children. No assessment is required to participate in Love & Logic Parenting.
Sessions include developing skills to
- Address setting limits and holding children accountable with logical consequences
- Focus on empathy, compassion, and healthy decision making. :
To enroll or get more information, please contact the Community Crisis Center at 847-697-2380.
- All services are available in English and Spanish
- 24-hour hotline support available to all AIP clients
- Services are available to individuals who are mandated by court, DCFS, or on a voluntary basis
- Sliding scale fees are available for group and individual counseling services
- Cash, credit/debit cards, or money orders are accepted