About
History
The Institute for Community (ICL) was founded in 1986 with the opening of its first 150-bed residential program in downtown Brooklyn. This program served adults with serious and persistent mental illness. Since its inception, ICL has been committed to providing high quality services and supports to the people it serves permitting them to achieve their full potential while living in the community of their choice. In furtherance of that mission, ICL has developed a comprehensive array of support and treatment services for citizens with both mental illness and developmental disabilities. ICL now serves over 6,000 people per year throughout Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Over its brief history, ICL has been recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a Gold Medal award-wining agency in year 2000 and was recognized as Agency of the Year by the New York City Department of Mental Health, Mental Hygiene and Alcoholism Services in the same year.