When someone you love in Schaumburg 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 Schaumburg, from Hoffman Estates to Barrington, traveling in through Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD).
We work with families across the area, including:
If your son or daughter studies at William Rainey Harper College, Elgin Community College or Judson University, we can time the plan around the academic calendar.
Flying in. Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD).
Local crisis and access line. Illinois Helpline for Opioids and Other Substances (24/7): 833-234-6343.
Public behavioral health. Cook County Health, Mental Health and Substance Use Services.
Treatment court. Suburban Municipal District Drug Treatment Court Program, 3rd Municipal District (Rolling Meadows).
Family support. NAMI Schaumburg Area and NW Cook County Al-Anon Information Service.
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 Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and meets the family before the intervention.
Sober transport to a program near Schaumburg or out of state.
In Cook County (portions in DuPage County), public behavioral health services run through Cook County Health, Mental Health and Substance Use Services.
Northwest suburban cases in Cook County are heard at the 3rd Municipal District courthouse in Rolling Meadows, one of the sites of the county's Suburban Drug Treatment Court Program (source).
The Schaumburg Police Department runs a free Social Services unit staffed by five licensed social workers who help residents and families with alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness and other crises (source).
Suburban Municipal District Drug Treatment Court Program, 3rd Municipal District (Rolling Meadows) can connect treatment with a legal case.
NAMI Schaumburg Area and NW Cook County Al-Anon Information Service offer meetings and education for relatives.
Not directly. Illinois has no addiction-specific court process a family can start. More detail: how we handle alcohol interventions across Illinois and how we plan drug interventions in Illinois.
Immediate danger: call 911. Emotional crisis: call or text 988.
For Schaumburg, Illinois Helpline for Opioids and Other Substances (24/7) answers at 833-234-6343, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
See every community on our Illinois interventionists page.
Yes. Our professional interventionists travel to families in Schaumburg, usually through Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD). Planning starts by phone or video, so your family can begin right away.
Call 911 if anyone is in immediate danger. For Schaumburg, Illinois Helpline for Opioids and Other Substances (24/7) answers at 833-234-6343, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
Start with Cook County Health, Mental Health and Substance Use Services.
Yes. Suburban Municipal District Drug Treatment Court Program, 3rd Municipal District (Rolling Meadows) connects treatment with a criminal case. An intervention can often move someone into treatment before a case starts.
NAMI Schaumburg Area and NW Cook County Al-Anon Information Service 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.
