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Provides individualized, community-based assistance to help adults with mental health conditions live independently, build daily living skills, and maintain stability. Services are delivered by trained Community Support Specialists who work directly with clients in their homes and throughout the community.

Support may include help with symptom management, budgeting, accessing healthcare, securing housing, improving social skills, connecting to resources, coordinating appointments, and developing goals that promote long-term wellness.

This program is designed for adults who benefit from hands-on assistance and ongoing support outside a traditional clinic setting.

Provides DUI evaluation/risk education, counseling, and substance abuse school-based prevention programs. Outpatient counseling is available for adults and adolescents, and substance abusers or persons whose lives are impacted by substance abuse. Counseling takes place in the form of individual and group counseling, family counseling, and referral to appropriate self-help groups. For adolescents, the Mental Illness & Substance Abuse (MISA) specialist provides age-appropriate and individualized treatment to dual diagnosed adolescents, addressing issues such as behaviors, self-esteem, emotional and physical health, strengths and goals, substance abuse, history, relapse prevention, healthy recovery environments. The Recovery Resource Center is a central point of information to help individuals and families navigate substance use treatment and recovery services. Services include assessments, referral, treatment, and support services.

Provides a variety of family health services including:

- WIC

- APORS (Adverse Pregnancy Outcome Recording System)

- Breastfeeding Peer Counseling

- Family Case Management

- HealthWorks

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.

Provides a week's supply of food according to household size. Available to every household once a month. Hygiene items may be selected when receiving a food pantry.

Provides a food basket to those in need. Can be accessed every 30 days as needed.

Offers vaccines and information for individuals in need to answer questions, or misinformation about certain vaccines. Services include flu vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines, and other vaccines may be offered under this program. 

Offers alternative arrangements for those ordered to complete community service in Kossuth County. Those with fees, and/or fines, can volunteer with community agencies to both complete their mandatory community service, and to also help pay down those fees/fines. Individuals participating in the program will not see any money as the money they earn through the program goes directly back to their fees/fines.

Provides community-based youth services. Services include a 24-hour crisis response for homeless, runaway, and "locked out" youth individuals ages 11-17. Home-based family counseling, assistance in accessing community resources, anger management and life skills support groups is provided as a component of services. 

Offers primary care including family medicine, internal medicine, infectious disease management, pediatric care, OB/GYN services, prenatal and postpartum coordinated care with labor and delivery, immunizations and preventative screenings, and chronic care.