The Link & Option Center, Inc., a Joint Commission accredited outpatient Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) and pillar in the Southland region with locations in South Holland and Hazel Crest, Illinois. TLOC was founded in 1995 by Dr. Twin Green, a local Black leader who remains our President & CEO, in response to struggles her teenage son was having due to negative forces in the community.

Guided by a seven-member Board of Directors that also reflects the area’s local Black community, TLOC’s mission is to empower people with quality prevention and intervention services coordinated within a network of resources.

Initially, the agency focused on stimulating and supporting the education and knowledge of African American and other minority young adults between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one by strengthening academic skills, promoting post-secondary education, and supporting career development. The nationally known Scholarship America’s ScholarShop college prep and career development transition program was the initial flagship program offered by TLOC. Today, TLOC provides a suite of prevention, mental health and addiction treatment, recovery support, and other public safety and human services for adults, seniors, children, and adolescents, as well as their families.

The Link & Option Center, Inc.’s Mission integrates medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment, provides medication management, Mobile Crisis Response Services, conducts Emergency Department Triage Assessments, and offers Comprehensive Follow-up after Hospitalization for mental health (FUH MH) Hospital Discharge Planning, Opioid Addiction Treatment, Medicated Assisted Treatment (MAT), Crisis Triage Living Room Program, Dementia Care, Mental Health First Aid, Integrated Care Coordination, Case Management, Domestic Violence Counseling, Doula Services, and DUI Evaluation and Education. We also provide Cook County Adult Probation Treatment Services, IDOC Reentry Transitional Services, 6th District Family Court Reunification, Emergency Services for Homeless Prevention and Housing Stabilization, and Certified Medicaid and SSI/SSDI Benefit Application Services, Health Insurance Services, housing and credit counseling, Child Welfare -DCFS Continuity of Care, Cook County Court-Community Service, and Workforce Development.

The Link & Option Center, Inc. Envisions an integrated system of care built on bonded collaborative relationships that promote positive decision making qualities in youth, adults and families, enhance self-worth, and foster cultural pride for economic growth opportunities needed to build healthier families and communities.

The growing demands of the community for human services have led TLOC to widen its scope and purpose to include prevention, intervention and other public safety-type services.