Brighter, Behavior, Choices, Inc. NFP

About Brighter, Behavior, Choices, Inc. NFP

Brighter, Behavior, Choices, Inc. NFP, based in Chicago, Illinois, is a certified recovery housing provider in Cook County serving women.

Established in May 2006

Brighter, Behavior, Choices, Inc. NFP was established in May of 2006 and describes itself as a not-for-profit, licensed intervention and recovery home provider agency for women. A stated establishment date gives a family a fixed point of reference for the organization behind a listing.

Certified by the Illinois Association of Extended Care

The Illinois Association of Extended Care lists Brighter, Behavior, Choices Inc., NFP among the certified providers on its Illinois register, giving families a reference point outside the operator's own materials when they compare recovery housing providers. The register carries the organization's name, so what it establishes is the standing of the provider rather than a rating of any one address.

Two Sites: Housing and the Recovery Cafe

The operator runs the Housing Initiative Program at 6525 South Campbell Avenue and, separately, Phase II - The Recovery Cafe Chicago at 6506 South Western Avenue. One address is housing; the other is a program site. Keeping the two apart matters at the point of referral, because a residential placement and a drop-in program are different things to arrange.

A Full Member of the Recovery Cafe Network

Brighter, Behavior, Choices, Inc. NFP is a full member of the Recovery Cafe Network, and its published programming includes a 12 Step Anonymous Group, a Recovery Circle and a School for Recovery Arts and Crafts. Membership of a wider network is the kind of affiliation that ties a local organization to practice developed elsewhere.

Publicly Funded Recovery Housing in Chicago

The organization states that it is funded in whole or in part by the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery. That division is the part of Illinois state government responsible for behavioral health and recovery services. For anyone comparing sober living operators serving women on Chicago's Southwest Side, that funding line and the Illinois certification are the two markers on Brighter, Behavior, Choices, Inc. NFP's record that come from outside the organization.