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Offers a day camp for children grades K-8 and a teen reach camp for junior high school students. Children grade K-8 have the opportunity to explore nature, find new talents, try new activities, grain independence, and make lasting friendships and memories. Services include day camp, sports camps, preschool camp, specialty camps, and summer camp swim lessons. Teen reach campers will learn to respect themselves and others, work out their differences, and discover the value of friendship.

Respite care available for children and/or adults with disabilities or who have been placed into protective custody.

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18. Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include foster parent recruitment, adoption conversions.

Offers voluntary programs to eligible landowners and agricultural producers to provide financial and technical assistance to help manage natural resources in a sustainable manner. Through these programs the agency approves contracts to provide financial assistance to help plan and implement conservation practices that address natural resource concerns or opportunities to help save energy, improve soil, water, plant, air, animal and related resources on agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest land, with emphasis on market stability and commodity pricing.

Offers both short and long-term experiences for youth. Short-term experiences include afterschool programs, camps, school-sponsored activities, conferences, and other events. Long-term experiences include learning communities in agriculture such as county clubs.

Offers both short and long-term experiences for youth. Short-term experiences include afterschool programs, camps, school-sponsored activities, conferences, and other events. Long-term experiences include learning communities in agriculture such as county clubs.

Offers both short and long-term experiences for youth. Short-term experiences include afterschool programs, camps, school-sponsored activities, conferences, and other events. Long-term experiences include learning communities in agriculture such as county clubs.

Offers both short and long-term experiences for youth. Short-term experiences include afterschool programs, camps, school-sponsored activities, conferences, and other events. Long-term experiences include learning communities in agriculture such as county clubs.

Provides mental health treatment and residential services for adults with chronic mental illness. Residential services are available for 30 adults in two professionally staffed residential facilities located in Des Moines. The agency provides skills training, to assist the individual to live in the least restricted living environment.

Offers housing for seniors, 62 years of age and over. Apartments include recreational and social activities, a sundry shop, game room, exercise room, a library which hosts a varied selection of books, and computer access to check email and browse the internet. Apartments come in one- or two-bedroom options. All utilities paid except for phone.

Works with businesses who are concerned about their compliance with the ADA, or who wish to improve accessibility of their business for their employees or customers. Staff are available to conduct an onsite Accessibility Assessment and suggest modification in written form, if desired, based on the Illinois Accessibility Code and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Tax preparation offered free to low and moderate income individuals starting late-January, 2026. Appointments are available starting February-March in Ottumwa, Albia, and Fairfield. First appointment is an intake interview. Services may also assist with prior year filings and post-deadline return.

Offers individual and family counseling services for individuals in need. Services may also include trauma-informed counseling, grief and loss counseling, bullying, self-harm, children and teens, depression, anxiety, and social skills building, couples counseling, not connecting with a partner, healing post affair, and empty nest issues, adults with children or parents to take care of, and incorporating spiritual life. 

Provides an in-home family development program that focuses to support families in moving toward self-sufficiency, meet their goals, attaining skills and employment.

Offers MEDICAID (Medical Assistance) to people who are low income and aged (65 and older), disabled (including blindness), women needing treatment for cancer or pre-cancerous conditions of breast or cervix (who have been screened and diagnosed through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program and who do not have credible health insurance coverage), children under 21 years of age, pregnant women, parents or other caretaker relatives of children under age 18 (or under age 19 if they are attending secondary school and are expected to graduate before age 19). Medicaid will pay the costs of Health care, Dental care, In-home health care, Nursing facility care or Residential facility care.

Offers rental education workshops, pre-purchase home buying counseling, and financial education workshops. 

Transitional housing apartments for families, single men, and single women.

Offers peer-led support in both one-on-one sessions and group recovery settings, helping participants build foundations for sustained sobriety. Peers help with support and bring real-life experiences to help guide individuals through every stage of their addiction recovery.

Can also provide Drug Court Support Services where Recovery Specialists work in close partnership with local Southern Illinois drug courts to provide vital support to individuals navigating both the judicial system and the recovery process. Will assist participants throughout the court-mandated recovery programs.

Provides a program that reimburses participating child development homes for serving healthy meals and snacks to children in care setting. 

DCFS has the primary responsibility of protecting children and strengthening families through the investigation and intervention of suspected child abuse or neglect by parents and other caregivers.

DCFS links families with community services to address struggles families are having, offers preventative services to referred families in an attempt to keep family units together to address findings of abuse/neglect, and works with families who have children under the legal custody of DCFS while working to reunify families when possible or provide a permanent home for children.

As part of its duties, DCFS also licenses and monitors all Illinois child welfare agencies, child care agencies, domestic and international adoption providers, and group homes in the state.