Founded in 1959, Thresholds is one of the largest nonprofit providers of mental health services worldwide. It offers therapeutic support, case management, education, job training and placement and housing services. The organization operates at more than 20 locations and serves over 6,000 people with mental illnesses. Thresholds provides individual and group counseling, medication monitoring, crisis intervention and psychosocial rehabilitation services, as well as skills enhancing activities. It offers a program of rehabilitative services for people with hearing impairments. The program also includes group and individual therapy and other life skills services. The organization s mobile assessment unit provides outreach, psychiatric care and resource referral to homeless persons with serious mental illnesses. Thresholds operates a school for young adults to help them earn a high school diploma. In addition, it offers an employment program that provides opportunities to earn a paycheck and learn valuable job skills for future competitive employment. The organization maintains a presence in Chicago.