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Home
Programs
  • Community Health/Wellness
  • Chronic Disease Pevention
  • Job Readiness
  • Care Coordination
  • Young Adult Homelessness
  • Harm Reduction
  • 340 B
ABOUT US
Donate
Previous Webinars
Contact Us
Latest News / Events
PCS Career Opportunities
Photo Gallery
The Community Pulse
Proactive Voices Blog
PCS 20TH Anniversary Gala
PCS Events Calendar
More
  • Home
  • Programs
    • Community Health/Wellness
    • Chronic Disease Pevention
    • Job Readiness
    • Care Coordination
    • Young Adult Homelessness
    • Harm Reduction
    • 340 B
  • ABOUT US
  • Donate
  • Previous Webinars
  • Contact Us
  • Latest News / Events
  • PCS Career Opportunities
  • Photo Gallery
  • The Community Pulse
  • Proactive Voices Blog
  • PCS 20TH Anniversary Gala
  • PCS Events Calendar
  • Home
  • Programs
    • Community Health/Wellness
    • Chronic Disease Pevention
    • Job Readiness
    • Care Coordination
    • Young Adult Homelessness
    • Harm Reduction
    • 340 B
  • ABOUT US
  • Donate
  • Previous Webinars
  • Contact Us
  • Latest News / Events
  • PCS Career Opportunities
  • Photo Gallery
  • The Community Pulse
  • Proactive Voices Blog
  • PCS 20TH Anniversary Gala
  • PCS Events Calendar

Community Health and Wellness

Celebrate 20 Years of Proactively Making a Difference!

 Join us on Saturday, September 20th, 2025, at 6:00 PM for an unforgettable evening celebrating two decades of impact, community service, and empowerment through Proactive Community Services.


 Every ticket purchase directly supports our programs — from health services and housing assistance to job readiness and community outreach. .

Click here for ticket and sponsorship Information

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 For a donation of $5 or more, you’ll receive instant access to our digital book:
So, The Grant Didn’t Come Through...
Laugh, Cry, Pivot: Tales from the Nonprofit Trenches
This hilarious, no-holds-barred collection takes you inside the everyday chaos of nonprofit life. Through 50 painfully real (and painfully funny) scenarios, we pull back the curtain on what it
really looks like to run a mission-driven organization in a world of tiny budgets, big expectations, and even bigger hearts.

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PCS in the Community

PCS in the Community

PCS in the Community

 

Every Monday and Thursday at 10:45 am

Greater Faith Baptist Church

1417 Emerald Avenue

Chicago Heights, IL

On Site

PCS in the Community

PCS in the Community

 

Every Tuesday at 9:00 am

Free-N-Deed

14200 King Drive

Dolton, IL

Free HIV/STI Testing

PCS in the Community

Free HIV/STI Testing

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Every Thursday at 9:30 am

Transformation Church

15446 Lexington Avenue

Harvey, IL 

The New PCS Mobile Testing Unit

The Newly converted PCS mobile testing unit. Proactively bringing services to the Community - Free HIV, Hepatitis C & STI Testing.

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Community Health and Wellness

 Health disparities are still present within African American communities: African Americans are 8.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV infection, as compared to the Non-Hispanic White population and are living below poverty at a rate of 28.1 percent compared to 11.0 percent of non-Hispanic Whites according to the 2012 U.S Census bureau. 

Program Objectives

Ensure individuals know their HIV status

Provide at-risk partners with HIV testing and STI screening and health care options

Provide linkage to care

Know Your Status

Check out this great video for more         important information about HIV.

HIV Counseling, HIV Testing, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Hepatitis C

 If you qualify, we offer free rapid HIV testing and free Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and HCV screenings. The HIV and HCV rapid test takes 15-20 minutes to process. STI laboratory results take 3 days. Our trained Community Health Worker will test or screen you, provide prevention counseling, and ensure you receive information, including educational and safer sex materials. Plus, you can be referred to other social and medical services. For clients that do not qualify for free testing, there will be an affordable cost for testing services for yourself or your partner. You can get tested today. For Current resting hours, click here to see our appointment calendar

Make an Appointment

Get Tested

Gonorrhea

Please view this great video for more information about Gonorrhea

Chlamydia

Please view this video for more information about Chlamydia

Condom Distribution

 PCS provides condoms to individuals, businesses, agencies and organizations to increase condom use and reduce unprotected sex. Throughout the communities served we have established Information Distribution Sites (IDC) to provide free condoms and HIV/AIDS/STI educational information.


To learn more about condom distribution or to start an IDC, please call: (708) 248-6166

Learn more

Our Impact

 During the last 15 years, PCS prevention services have reached over 15,000 individuals at high-risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV/STI Infection through workshops, community outreach activities, presentations, events, and literature and safer sex package distribution. HIV/STD counseling, testing, and referral: 97% of our clients say that they felt empowered to change their risky behavior and they would refer others to our program 

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Proactive Community Services is committed to providing these and other much needed services to our community. Please help us with your donation.

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Healthy Families Lead to Healthy Outcomes in Life

Free HIV,HCV and STI Testing

 Free HIV and STI testing is available to qualified members of the Southern Cook County community. 

Schedule here

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 This site contains HIV prevention messages that may not be appropriate for all audiences. Since HIV infection is spread primarily through sexual practices or by sharing needles, prevention messages and programs may address these topics.