Renz Center offers free substance use assessments

Renz Addiction Counseling Center will offer free alcohol and drug use assessments to help community residents struggling with a substance use disorder.

The assessment involves completing a questionnaire and meeting with a counselor at the center's Two American Way in Elgin facility.

Appointments are necessary. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call (847) 742-3545.

Renz Center provides a continuum of care dedicated to the prevention, intervention and treatment of addictive behaviors related to alcohol, drugs and gambling.

Services range from prevention programs for youth in the schools to outpatient treatment programs for adolescents and adults. Offices are in Elgin, St. Charles, and Streamwood.

Renz Addiction Counseling Center is a nonprofit organization funded in part by the federal government, Central Kane County United Way, Illinois Department of Human Services, Hanover Township, Geneva and St. Charles 708 mental health boards and other local community organizations.

To find out more about Renz Center's programs, call (847) 742-3545 or visit www.renzcenter.org.