UnityPoint Health - Robert Young Center
About Us
The Robert Young Center, part of UnityPoint Health – Trinity, provides care for every behavioral health need. Our team specializes in mental health, substance abuse and crisis services for children, adolescents and adults. Members of the Quad Cities and surrounding communities have turned to the Robert Young Center for behavioral health support for nearly 40 years. Robert Young Center was the first community mental health center in Illinois. We have a decades-long reputation for helping people navigate difficult times using trauma-informed care practices and compassion. You can count on us, too.
Our trained mental health specialists have the tools to guide you through whatever mental health challenges you face. You can trust us for help with relationship difficulties, anxiety or depression, or mental disorders like schizophrenia. We treat children, teens and adults who have a broad range of needs. We listen to your concerns and tailor a plan that fits your circumstances.
The Robert Young Center provides a full spectrum of hospital-based and outpatient mental health services to children, adolescents and adults. We offer care at locations throughout the Quad Cities region. For example, you can receive high-quality mental health expertise at inpatient residential facilities, outpatient mental health clinics, UnityPoint Clinic primary care practices and local schools. We treat all types of mental health challenges using a trauma-informed approach. That means we recognize the many ways a traumatic experience, such as emotional or sexual abuse, can affect someone later in life.
Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health is part of the IDPH Integrated Provider Network, with services funded by the Iowa Department of Public Health and the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Message from our President
Welcome to the Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health. Throughout our 36 years, we have continued to strive to meet the needs of our clients and our referral sources. During this time of growth, we have maintained a commitment to quality care, customer service and customer satisfaction, and that commitment is evident in our total quality improvement program.
I invite and encourage your comments, concerns, and questions. We are eager to build and maintain mutually rewarding referral relationships with professionals in the community, and your feedback is important to us. I also encourage you to call me, our senior management team, or our customer service representative whenever you have a comment about our services. We welcome the opportunity to talk with you.
Sincerely,
Dennis Duke
President, Robert Young Center
Additional Services
Riverside Alcohol and Drug Services
Recovery from addiction begins with abstinence from alcohol and drugs, but it doesn't stop there. Recovery includes learning new life skills, and new ways to deal with emotions. Inpatient and outpatient programming is based on the principles of trauma-informed care and the belief that our clients hold the unique ability to lead fulfilling substance-free and productive lives. We believe that addiction is a disease and utilize the 12-step program. RYC supports the individual and their family throughout each stage of the substance abuse treatment and recovery process. Since 1972, the chemical dependency programs at Riverside have helped thousands of people learn how to live more meaningful lives and remain chemical-free.Riverside, the hospital-based chemical dependency treatment program of UnityPoint Health - Robert Young Center, offers inpatient and outpatient services for adults. Services include 24-hour emergency treatment and crisis intervention, medical detoxification, diagnostic evaluation, and aftercare programs. Patients receive individual counseling and participate in group sessions.
Other services include recreational programs, relaxation techniques, positive living instructions and self-help groups, including Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Riverside is located at the UnityPoint Health – Trinity Rock Island campus. Individuals may be self-referred or referred by any number of sources, including community programs, family members or the court.
Robert Young History
The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 allowed for the planning, staffing and construction of Comprehensive Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) across America. By the time this funding was halted in 1980, more than 800 such CMHC's had been developed throughout the United States.
Robert Young Center was the first CMHC in Illinois as well as the first hospital-based CMHC in either Illinois or Iowa. Despite the national movement toward integration of behavioral health services and primary health care, it is extremely rare to come across hospitals that include a community mental health center as part of its corporate configuration (less than 1%).
Throughout its history, Robert Young Center has been a major contributor to quality mental health services in the Quad City and Muscatine regions.
Biography of the Actor Robert Young
Robert Young, an American actor, is best known for his television roles in "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D." Throughout his 60-year career, Young had supporting roles in more than 100 films. In his later years, Young revealed that his public image was a direct contrast to his private life, which included a 30-year battle with alcoholism and depression. After discovering he was suffering from a chemical imbalance, Young began to speak publicly about the issues and problems related to alcohol and depression, and his personal struggles.
The Robert Young Center for Community Mental Health, an affiliate of UnityPoint Health – Trinity, is a comprehensive community mental health center named after Young for his work with the passage of the 708 Illinois Tax Referendum.
