Riverside Medical Center's Pathways Program Rprovides a continuum of community-based mental health treatment for children and adolescents. These include adolescent mental health counselors which provide school-based counseling in nine Kankakee County schools, psychiatrists who support community mental health agencies beyond Riverside facilities, and group-based treatment for children ages 5-17 at their Bradley Atrium center. Pathways began providing Theraplay Sunshine Circles at the Kankakee Area YMCA with a vision to expand access by going to where needs exist.

As Pathways continues to capacity-build, it was the goal to create a Mobile Community Tool Box that mixes and matches ageappropriate tools with play/art/music engagement experiences supported by interchangeable sensory tools and resources. This program demonstrates meeting a child at their place of need as clinicians need to adapt an interaction with a play therapy model or incorporate art, music or sensory tools. Mobile Community Tool Box can incorporate sensory and fidget tools, resources that aid teachers, students and families to cope with and adapt to presenting needs. Adolescent mental health counselors provide 84 hours of service a week in schools throughout the county. These mobile toolkits provide therapists with resources and tools to assist adolescents with their work, which previously, a therapist provided these out of their own pocket. Students can bring these home and build their own toolkits which empowers families to continue healing.