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What Joliet Treatment Center Offers: Programs for Men with Severe Mental Illness

If you're trying to learn what treatment and education options exist at Joliet Treatment Center (JTC), here's a breakdown of who the facility serves and the academic and career programs it lists.

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Joliet Treatment Center is a multi-disciplinary treatment facility for convicted adult male felons with severe mental illness. For families, that means the facility is built around treatment needs, not just custody. Incarceration is still part of the picture, but treatment drives the programming.

Joliet Treatment Center opened in 2017. As a newer facility with treatment baked into its mission from the start, its programs and day-to-day operations can look quite different from older institutions.

JTC's operational capacity is 334. That's a relatively small facility, which can give you a sense of scale. It also means education and job-training slots may be competitive.

Academic Programs

  • ✓ Adult Basic Education (ABE)
  • ✓ Advanced Adult Basic Education (ADV ABE)
  • ✓ Adult Secondary Education (ASE/GED)

Career Technical Education

  • ✓ Commercial Custodial
  • ✓ Horticulture
  1. Call Joliet Treatment Center. Use the main line at 815-730-4400 and ask what programs are currently available and how participation is handled.
  2. Be ready to reference the facility address. Joliet Treatment Center is located at 2848 West McDonough, Joliet, IL 60436.

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