General Overview
Executive Director
Staff Background
Organizational Chart
Mission
Program Background
Location
Gratitude
History of Carepoint
Carepoint Adult, Child and Family Association was founded in December 1998 as a volunteer agency. Carepoint was incorporated as an Illinois general non-for-profit corporation on December 28, 2000. Carepoint's mission is to provide case management and other services for men, women and children with a variety of social welfare and health related needs. Our areas of prominence remain in harm reduction and addressing the addiction aspects and needs of our clients. The agency was founded in response to the high numbers of HIV infection in Southern and Northern Cook County and to address the limited options for care. In the first year of program operation, 3,000 outreach contacts were logged, primarily within the African-American and Latino communities. Carepoint serves Cook County and the Chicagoland area.
Carepoint is one of the only comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention service providers extending both direct services and prevention education programs. A mobile van serves as a testing site and is utilized in high risk communities with regular visits to correctional facilities, bars, methadone clinics, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, parks, shooting galleries and other sites identified through needs assessments, focus groups and community town hall meetings. More than 7,000 unduplicated contacts have been made through this outreach.
Carepoint's mission is to improve the lives of families, children and adults through a comprehensive range of social, welfare and health-related services. It is committed to a vision of society in which all families, children and adults are able to achieve quality of life through equal access and advocacy for services offered with dignity and respect. Carepoint extends these principles to every client.