INC
Board, NFP, a Community Mental Health Funding Alliance, formerly
Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services, Inc.,
but
known throughout the community as “INC,” is an Illinois, not-for-profit
corporation which was chartered
on April 21,
1969,
to promote the creation of local mental health boards authorized
under 405 Illinois Compiled Statutes
§20/3a
(see
link below).
In
the November 1970 general election, the voters of Aurora
, Batavia
, Big Rock, Blackberry,
Kaneville and Sugar
Grove
Townships,
Kane County,
Illinois,
approved a community mental health tax by referendum. Each of the
six township boards
appointed a seven-member community mental health board, known colloquially
as a “708” board after the number of the
Illinois House of Representatives resolution which created such
entities. A seventh township, Virgil, joined the previous six
as
the result of a referendum passed in November 2000 and subsequently
appointed a 708 board.
Each
community 708 board recommends a mental health levy to its respective
township board for inclusion among their levy
submissions to the county. The county distributes the tax dollars
collected to the townships, who then remit the mental health
portion of the taxes to the INC Board, the administrative body.
They are then pooled and distributed to agencies for selected,
eligible services by the INC Board.
The
INC Board of Directors is composed of fifteen (15) members. There
is one member from each of the township 708 Boards,
and eight (8) members-at-large elected by the board. Contractual
agreements exist between INC and the seven community mental
health boards to carry out the work of the seven 708 boards in a
regional approach to administration, which is permitted and
delineated
in Illinois
statute.
Annual
grants made by INC to local agencies for services to persons seeking
such services for mental illness, developmental
disabilities, and substance abuse disorders, using the local mental
health tax dollars, are over $1.2 million.
INC
built and is the owner of the buildings at 400 Mercy Lane, and both
309 and 409 W. New Indian Trail Court. These house
not only the INC offices but also the Association for Individual
Development, including both the Elizabeth Keeler Center
and
Thompson Rehabilitation Center, Gateway Foundation - Aurora, an
office for Communities In Schools and one for the
National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill. All the buildings are situated on
land purchased from Mercy Center for Health Care
Services
and the Sisters of Mercy. There is still 1.8 acres of undeveloped
land.
INC’s
continuing responsibility to the citizens of our seven townships
is to assure the availability, accessibility and continuity of
appropriate
services for persons with mental illnesses, developmental disabilities,
and substance abuse disorders.
