Chicago’s South Side Has a New Crisis Respite. Here Are Its Weekday Hours.

Thresholds’ new South Side Living Room gives people experiencing a mental health crisis a place to pause with trained peer support. The service at 734 W. 47th St. is free, and its published hours currently cover weekdays.

FOX 32 reported a November 13 opening celebration for the respite inside Thresholds’ Center for Mental Wellbeing South. The center itself opened in 2024; the Living Room adds another service within it.

Thresholds lists 24-hour support Monday through Friday for the South location, with extended hours forthcoming. That is the schedule readers should use rather than assuming the new space already operates seven days a week.

The provider describes an entirely peer-led program staffed by trained recovery support specialists who draw on their own experience. Guests receive a safety assessment on arrival before being offered respite in a comfortable area.

FOX 32’s account describes a kitchen, fireplace, books, laundry facilities and two bedrooms. Those details give a concrete sense of what respite can mean here: somewhere to rest and regroup while receiving support, instead of treating every crisis as a trip straight to an institutional setting.

Thresholds says staff provide emotional support and help connecting with resources for housing, food and health care. Its published services also include safety planning and help working through problems.

A separate South Side Mobile Crisis Response Team can assess a person’s situation by telephone and determine an appropriate response, which may include sending a team. Thresholds lists that service’s line hours as Monday at 7 a.m. through Saturday at 7 a.m.

Mobile teams consist of two Thresholds staff members, including a peer support specialist with lived experience of a mental health condition. The provider says assistance is free; an assessment determines the response rather than a call guaranteeing dispatch.

Thresholds also lists its Ravenswood Living Room at 4423 N. Ravenswood Ave. as operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For the South Side expansion, the useful measure is the service people can reach now, with longer hours still to come.