When someone you love in Peoria will not accept help, a professionally led intervention gives your family a calm, prepared way to ask.
A drug and alcohol interventionist prepares the family, arranges treatment in advance and leads the conversation that asks a loved one to accept help. We do this for families in Peoria, from Peoria Heights to Pekin, traveling in through General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (PIA).
We work with families across the area, including:
If your son or daughter studies at Bradley University, Illinois Central College or University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria, we can time the plan around the academic calendar.
Flying in. General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (PIA).
Local crisis and access line. Children's Home Association of Illinois 24-hour crisis line: 309-687-8787.
Public behavioral health. Peoria City/County Health Department.
Treatment court. Peoria County Drug Court (10th Judicial Circuit problem-solving court).
Family support. NAMI Tri-County Illinois.
Emergency. Call 911 if a loved one is in immediate danger. Call or text 988 for an emotional crisis.
Who is in the room, what each person says, which program holds a bed. See the full steps.
Your interventionist flies into General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (PIA) and meets the family before the intervention.
Sober transport to a program near Peoria or out of state.
Public behavioral health services run through Peoria City/County Health Department.
The Peoria City/County Health Department maintains an Opioid Response Dashboard covering Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties that maps local resources and Narcan distribution sites (source).
Peoria County Drug Court (10th Judicial Circuit problem-solving court) can connect treatment with a legal case.
NAMI Tri-County Illinois offer meetings and education for relatives.
Not directly. Illinois has no addiction-specific court process a family can start. More detail: Illinois alcohol interventionist and Illinois drug interventionist.
Immediate danger: call 911. Emotional crisis: call or text 988.
For Peoria, Children's Home Association of Illinois 24-hour crisis line answers at 309-687-8787, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
See every community on our Illinois interventionists page.
Yes. Our professional interventionists travel to families in Peoria, usually through General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport (PIA). Planning starts by phone or video, so your family can begin right away.
Call 911 if anyone is in immediate danger. For Peoria, Children's Home Association of Illinois 24-hour crisis line answers at 309-687-8787, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
Start with Peoria City/County Health Department.
Yes. Peoria County Drug Court (10th Judicial Circuit problem-solving court) connects treatment with a criminal case. An intervention can often move someone into treatment before a case starts.
NAMI Tri-County Illinois offer meetings and education for relatives.
One confidential conversation with a professional interventionist. No pressure, no obligation. We'll help you find the right next step for your family.
