To support mental, intellectual and developmental health and well being for residents of the 7 townships in INC's alliance by funding, planning, and coordinating to support mental, intellectual and developmental health and well being for all residents. BRIEF HISTORY
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 1969 to promote the creation of local mental health boards authorized under 405 Illinois Compiled Statutes §20/3a (Community Mental Health Act). In the November 1970 general election, Aurora, Batavia, Big Rock, Blackberry, Kaneville and Sugar Grove Township voters in 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 as a “708” board after the number of the Illinois House of Representatives resolution which created such entities. Each 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, which remit the mental health portion of the taxes to the INC Board, the administrative body. The combined levies are distributed to agencies for selected, eligible services by the INC Board. INC Board of Directors is composed of fifteen (15) members; 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 in a regional approach to administration. Annual grants made by INC to local agencies for services to persons with mental illness, developmental disabilities and substance use disorders, using the local mental health tax dollars, are currently over $1.4 million. INC built and is the owner of the buildings at 400 Mercy Lane, and both 309 and 409 W. 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 in Aurora, and offices for the National Alliance on Mental Illness KDK affiliate. All the buildings are situated on land purchased from Mercy Center for Health Care Services and the Sisters of Mercy. 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 illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and substance use disorders.
