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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.

   
   
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