About Us

Overview

In February of 1976, four not-for-profit providers of alcoholism, mental health and drug abuse services consolidated into a single organization that would become the Human Service Center and White Oaks services. The vision was to reduce duplicative costs of separate entities while improving the ability to serve persons with multiple problems. In 1981, Fayette Companies was formed to provide centralized administrative services to a growing family of corporate entities. Behavioral Health Advantages, Inc. was established in 1990 to focus on the needs of the business community and people at work.

Fayette Companies is a management and consultation corporation with three major operating agencies in the fields of mental health care and substance abuse treatment and three other subsidiaries.  Located in Peoria, Illinois, Fayette employs approximately 300 individuals, including psychiatrists, physicians, mental health counselors, alcohol and drug counselors, managerial professionals and administrative and support personnel.

Human Service Center (HSC)

Celebrating 30 years in 2006, the Human Service Center offers comprehensive treatment services for adults with a serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression. Services range from a 24-hour mobile crisis response through our Emergency Response Service
                       
(ERS) to community-based case management. Three full-time psychiatrists and a nurse psychiatric practitioner provide psychiatric evaluation and psychotropic medication prescribing and monitoring. Methadone treatment for heroin addiction, a long-term women’s residential treatment program for addiction, and addiction services to the state’s work release program are also offered by the Human Service Center.

Behavioral Health Advantages, Inc. (BHA)
                  

Behavioral Health Advantages, Inc. was established in 1990 to focus on the needs of the business community and of people at work. BHA’s mission, to help organizations manage the human factor at work, is achieved through its four divisions – Employee Assistance Programs (EAP’s), Consultation and Training, Outpatient Counseling, and Mediation and Arbitration. BHA provides comprehensive behavioral health employee assistance services, management consultation, medication and arbitration.

Human Service Center Foundation

The not-for-profit foundation manages the investments for Fayette related companies and owns several facilities used by Human Service Center and White Oaks.

Advantage Behavioral Health, LLC.

A Limited Liability Company co-owned with Chestnut Health Systems that provides employee assistance services.