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Accredited by:
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Illinois Department of Human Services
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Clark County Mental Health (708) Board
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Edgar County Mental Health (708) Board
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Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
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CARF: The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission
for:
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Employment Services
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Comprehensive Vocational Evaluation Services
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Organizational Employment Services
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Community Employment Services
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Community Services
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Mental Health Programs
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Case Management
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Crisis Intervention
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Outpatient Treatment
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Children & Adolescents
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Case Management
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Crisis Intervention
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Outpatient Treatment
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Our Mission
Helping
people help themselves through
exceptional human service and
community collaboration.
Our Vision
HRC is the premier provider of
comprehensive behavioral healthcare in east central Illinois. HRC is a highly
valued collaborator and a powerful agent for positive community change,
recognized for its ethical and professional staff, therapeutic environment,
innovative treatment approaches, and commitment to individual empowerment,
growth, and recovery.
Company Profile
The Human Resources Center is a 501[c]3 not-for-profit agency which operates without discrimination as to race,
sex,, disability, or national origin in the employment and promotion of staff, delivery of services, and the selection of
board
members. HRC receives funding from the
Illinois
Department of Human
Services, the Community Mental Health Act (708), the United Way of Edgar County, Inc., various grants, and service fees. For more information contact
Ken Polky at 217-465-4118.
The Human Resources Center was established in 1970 as a community
center dedicated to helping the citizens of Edgar & Clark
Counties. For over thirty years, HRC has served the businesses and
citizens of East Central Illinois and West Central Indiana and has offered
a wide variety of rehabilitative services geared toward the issues and
challenges that face our rural communities.
Message from the Executive Director
Kenneth A. Polky
Behavioral
Health’s “Swamps and
Alligators”
Swamp-draining
efforts don’t seem nearly as
important as staying alive when
you are up to your waist in
alligators.
Unfortunately, behavioral
health care providers in
Illinois have been battling
inadequate funding and cash flow
problems for so long it is very
difficult to invest resources on
opportunities and planning for
long-term community and
organizational goals.
Nonetheless, as I
recently suggested to a
leadership development class:
“It is not sufficient to
creatively problem-solve how to
best fight off the alligators or
even how to drain the swamp.
Through innovative practices we
must be able to calculate in
advance where the swamps and
alligators will be in the future
and devise ways to either avoid
them altogether or make them
manageable community assets.”
Cash flow crises, pressing
deadlines, regulatory changes,
and emotional upheaval among
workgroups are some of the stark
21st century
“realities” our industry
faces.
One view is that like
several other human service and
commercial sectors, the
behavioral health “industry”
in Illinois is suffering a
protracted decline (not a
decline in demand for the
services, a decline in the
percentage of the client
population that can afford to
pay and a decline in the
state’s ability or willingness
to sufficiently fund the
services for those who can’t).
Like hospitals, nursing
homes, internet companies, the
airlines, and the auto industry,
there are times when it is
really tough just to stay in
business and this is
unfortunately one of those
times.
Another view is that the
behavioral health field is not
declining as much as it is
undergoing a major transition
that has generated a greater
need for service renewal and
revitalization.
During this process some
organizations are expected to
falter and stagnate while others
adapt to rapidly changing
expectations and business
practices and prosper.
I believe HRC is one of
the organizations that has
learned to change and adapt.
Times are tough, but we
certainly haven’t stagnated.
We expanded our
collaborative projects and
service array during FY2007
(more details can be found in
the FY2007 Annual Report
section) while we worked
vigorously to get our fiscal
house in order (even with the
multiple fiscal challenges
confronting the industry we
ended FY2007 with a modest
revenue surplus).
John Kotter and Dan Cohen
in their book “The Heart of
Change,” suggest “In a
turbulent world, the requirement
of change is ongoing.
Imagine needing to keep
urgency up and complacency,
fear, and anger down all of the
time and throughout the
organization.
Imagine needing to have
groups guiding change efforts
all the time and throughout the
enterprise.
Imagine the demand to
develop visions and strategies
for all the changes, to
communicate volumes of
information to everyone, to keep
battling obstacles out of the
way throughout the organization.
To succeed in that world,
how many people in an enterprise
must see change as a part of
their jobs?”
I believe the obvious
answer is “everyone,” and
this is a reality that is
difficult for most
“alligator-fearing” people
to accept. Fortunately
HRC is blessed with some
courageous and visionary
employees and
collaborative partners who are
showing others the path to
success.
2007
Annual Report
Contact Information
Paris
Marshall
Telephone
Telephone
217.465.4118
217.826.6212
FAX
FAX
217.463.1899 217.826.3682
Postal Address
PO Box 1118
Paris, Illinois 61944
Physical Address
118 East Court Street
1006 South
6th
Paris,
IL
61944
Marshall, IL 62441
Electronic mail
General Information: Kenneth
Polky, Executive Director
Client Support: Starr
Nelson, Director of Operations
Billing Questions: Rita
Haupt, Data & Billing
Manager
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