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Prepares and carries out disaster response and recovery actions to prevent, minimize, repair, and alleviate injury and damage from natural, man-made, or nuclear disasters. This can include HAZMAT response, search and rescue, weather watches, major transportation accidents, and terrorism incidents. See website for full list of services.

Provides emergency assistance to people who experience natural or man-made disasters. Can provide emergency food, clothing, shelter, medical needs, and mental health.

Educational information offered related to disaster preparedness and recovery, beef cattle production, and cropping and water systems.

Provides home-delivered meals to township seniors.

Offers limited emergency assistance for, rent (last $100), utilities (last $75), diapers, other basic needs (such as hygiene products) for individuals and families who are experiencing economic hardship, assistance based on an immediate precipitating event, refers callers to appropriate community agencies that may be able to assist.

Offers an intervention program for at-risk youth between the ages of 12 - 18 in Will County who need court ordered community service compliance. Assists youth to avoid convictions. Services include:

• Education about the law and its consequences.
• Social and life skills training.
• Peer education.
• Conflict resolution education.
• Anger management education.

Offers general immunizations for children, adolescents, and adults.

Provides home improvement grants and/or low interest loans to repair deteriorated dwellings. Programs include:

- Minor Home Repair Program: provides grants and forgivable deferred payment loans to correct housing deficiencies of an immediate nature which threaten the health or safety of the occupant of the home or the structural integrity of the building.

• Home Accessibility Retrofit Program: provides grants or loans to eliminate barriers, modify the layout, or add structural accessories/improvements to the dwelling to make it more accessible for occupants with disabilities. May also be used to make "visibility" modification to dwelling units to allow immediate family members with disabilities to visit the subject property.

• Accessory Structure Demolition Program: provides grants or forgivable deferred loans for homeowners to demolish unsafe structures on their property.

• Residential Exterior Rehabilitation Program: provides a 50/50 matching grant or 0% interest loan to repair and bring up to code the living structure.

Provides energy efficiency services at no cost to low-income homeowners or renters to reduce energy costs. Work includes sealing air infiltration leaks, high-density attic, wall, or foundation insulation, health and safety check, heating system repair or replacement, water heaters repair or replacement.

- Some minor repair is allowable for health and safety reasons.

- Other types of improvements may include caulking, pipe wrap, hot water heater wrap, light bulbs, new doors, venting of all bath or exhaust fans, smoke detectors, and carbon monoxide detectors.

Income Guidelines:

- Numbers of members in household: 1. Maximum Gross Annual Income: $31,920.

- Numbers of members in household: 2. Maximum Gross Annual Income: $43,280.

- Numbers of members in household: 3. Maximum Gross Annual Income: $54,640.

- Numbers of members in household: 4. Maximum Gross Annual Income: $66,000.

- Add $11,360 for each additional household member.

Offers law enforcement services to the Boone County area. Issues gun/firearm permits, runs requested background checks, and manages the county Jail.

Intermediate residential facility for up to one year, and dual disorder residential facility for up to six months.

- Intermediate Residential (IR) Treatment: Intended for adults with a primary substance use disorder.

- Dual Disorder Residential Treatment: Intended for adults with a primary substance use disorder and a co-occurring severe and persistent mental illness; provides integrated treatment to stabilize symptoms and engage the individual in a program of maintenance, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery.

- Halfway House: Transitional, 24-hour structured recovery facility intended for adults with a primary substance use disorder that have completed a residential treatment program successfully.

Provides personal hygiene or care items such as soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and diapers when available. Can be used once per month.

Provides opportunities for refugees, asylees, victims of human trafficking, survivors of torture, and other immigrants to thrive in America. Services include:

Reception and Placement: Meeting critical needs in the early months after arriving in the United States. IRC staff and community partners ensure newly arrived refugees are greeted at the airport, have a furnished home, receive time-limited rental assistance, have access to nutritious food, healthcare and education, and are given appropriate social services referrals.

Employment Services: Early self-sufficiency through employment is the foundation of the US Refugee Program. IRC staff and volunteers provide job readiness training, vocational counseling, resume preparation, job search and placement services, and financial assistance for basic needs with the goal of helping refugees find their first job in America. Employment services are provided to refugees for up to five years from their date of arrival.

Intensive Case Management: Some refugees face barriers that make rapid employment difficult. Others face cultural barriers that require additional training and orientation support to learn to navigate American systems independently. Still others face crisis after an initial period of stability. For those refugees, IRC provides intensive case management services for up to five years after arrival.

Financial Coaching: Financial Coaching at IRC offers new Americans and other vulnerable populations an opportunity to build their financial knowledge, skills, and assets. Through a combination of one-on-one coaching and financial education classes, IRC delivers innovative, effective programs by combining evidence-based strategies with an unparalleled ability to deliver culturally and linguistically accessible programs. As a result of these programs, people are able to build their family income and assets, contributing to the economic vibrancy of communities across America.

Can also offer youth tutoring and mentoring for those in the community that need a little extra help.

In-person workshops focused on financial literacy topics to help individuals become financially stable, improve their housing situation, and possibly achieve homeownership. Topics include money-saving tips, understanding credit reports and credit cards, building generational wealth, and more.

Home visits to new mothers and newborns, health assessments, lactation and feeding help, and other instruction. This service is provided by the Home Health Department.

Provides a homeless coordinated entry access point to the Coordinated Entry System. Anyone experiencing homelessness in Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, and Williamson counties can call for further assistance. 

- Funding source for local health and human service agencies.

- Financial oversight and collaboration between agencies.