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Helps increase access to education and employment, among other supports.

Services include seeking expungements and sealing criminal records, restoring driver’s licenses, and removing other barriers to employment, education and housing, SNAP and TANF denials, calculations, overpayments and sanctions, special education, school discipline, and school enrollment issues, Community Care Program and Home Services Program issues, and tax disputes with IRS, including innocent spouse relief, identity theft, and collections.

A collaborative effort among agencies, family members, local businesses, and health care services, to improve the lives of babies and young children.

Brings together the community to discuss and address the needs of families with very young children, and, through this collaborative effort, helps to insure that all children have the same opportunities to succeed.

Provides mental health and psychiatry services to those in need. Services include counseling, medication management, and mental health case management.

Offers scholarships, amounts are dependent of funding levels to income eligible individuals who are planning to attend accredited Fishes and Loaves and Miller Academy vocational schools. Preference is given to applicants of racial or ethnic minorities.

Seeks to protect Illinois consumers and businesses victimized by fraud, deception, or unfair methods of competition. Within this division are the Franchise Bureau, Health Care Bureau, Charitable Trusts Bureau, Military and Veterans Rights Bureau, and Consumer Fraud Bureau.

The Consumer Fraud and Health Care Bureaus offer informal dispute resolution programs for consumers with complaints concerning their purchases and health care. Although the attorneys in the AG Office cannot represent any one individual in a lawsuit, a limited mediation program is offered to assist in resolving disputes or complaints filed by individual consumers.

Offers scholarships, amounts are dependent of funding levels, to income eligible individuals who are planning to attend accredited Illinois University, community college, technical or vocational schools. Preference is given to applicants of racial or ethnic minorities.

Offers scholarships, amounts are dependent of funding levels, to income eligible individuals who are planning to attend accredited Illinois University, community college, technical or vocational schools. Preference is given to applicants of racial or ethnic minorities.

Provides vocational assessments, job coaching and supported employment services. In addition, support for students with disabilities pursuing post-secondary education is available.

Prevents, eliminates, and controls environmental threats to public health.

Inspections are provided for public swimming pools, tattoo parlors, septic systems, private wells, nuisances, noxious weeds, miscellaneous environmental complaints, and environmental disease prevention.

Other services include rodent and pest surveillance, radon and indoor air information (radon kits available for a small fee), and well water testing.

Provides autism screenings and help find diagnostic services. Teams help Iowa families navigate local supports and services for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and provide family-to-family support. 

Offers a summary of assistance programs through Troy Township:

• General Assistance provides monthly payments to help residents meet basic needs.
• Emergency Assistance is available to qualified individuals and families facing emergencies that are work related or life threatening such as eviction, utility disconnection, and transportation.
• Salvation Army Service Extension Program funds are available once in any 12-month period for residents which also may be helped using Salvation Army welfare guidelines.
• Nicor Sharing is a one-time annual grant given, with no requirement to be paid back to qualified residential customers to make payments to Nicor Gas on resident's behalf.