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Coordinates organ and tissue donation while supporting families of donors in Illinois and portions of Indiana. Streamlines the organ donation process and provides support to both donor and recipient families.

Specific services include:

- Evaluation of donors.

- 24/7 referral coordination.

- Educational programs.

- Registration.

- Lab screenings.

- General help for patients and medical providers involved in the organ donation process.

- Information on the Illinois Organ/Tissue Donor Registry, Donate Life Illinois, and the critical need for organs and tissue.

U.S. citizenship classes offering instruction in English, civics, and American history for aspiring naturalization candidates. Students are free join at any time.

Provides counseling services to those in need. Will work with clients to help them find safe ways of coping with stages of change or difficulty and learning to deal with the stress those things can create.

Provides General Assistance as a monthly stipend to eligible residents. Financial services include help with rent and utilities. 

Provides support, empowerment, and recovery to survivors of sexual violence (and the people that love them). Counselors assist in the process of recognizing how sexual violence has impacted the survivor's feelings, relationships, self-esteem, and ability to function while working with them to find healing.

Survivors may choose to receive individual, family, couple, and/or group counseling. In addition, support groups are offered to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, teens, and parents.

Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online. 

Peer Advocates are volunteers aged 60 and older who provide assistance to seniors, also aged 60 and older, with a variety of needs, concerns, and questions. Services include emotional support and companionship, assistance with the Rent Reimbursement program through DHHS by helping with online or paper form applications (a one-time annual program for eligible individuals), and guidance through the SHIIP program, which includes drug plan, Medicare Advantage, or supplemental plan comparisons, as well as education for new Medicare enrollees.

Can also offer information and counseling on long-term care insurance, helping individuals evaluate benefit plans, select suitable policies, or explore alternatives. While not directly providing meals, they can connect seniors to resources like home-delivered meal programs for those who face challenges in meal preparation or access. Peer Advocates also play a role in senior advocacy, supporting efforts to protect and promote the rights and interests of older adults.

Nutrition education to adults and youth of limited resources about healthy eating and food resources to improve food resource management skills. The program offers lessons in the areas of diet quality, food safety, and food resource management individually or in small groups.

Services to persons with developmental disabilities.

- Residential services, alternative living.

- Vocational services.

- Family and medical support services.

- Respite care.

- Supported employment services and job search.

- Shared living provider.

County government offices.

Serves as a warming center during open hours.

Housing program which provides stable housing and essential support services for people with serious mental illness.

Services begin with a screening to help get people of all ages to the right treatment. May follow with individual therapy that leads to group therapy, or crisis care that leads to stable housing.

Services include:

- Individual therapy;

- Group therapy;

- Family therapy;

- Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and medication management;

- Psychiatric services;

- Court services;

- Crisis residential/triage services, and more.

Serves children who have experienced abuse through a comprehensive approach of providing services to the child and their non-offending family members. Staff provides advocacy services to help bridge the gap between law enforcement and the court system.

Services include:

• Forensic interviews
• Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
• Resource referrals
• Medical forensic exam

Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) for children ages 0 to 6 who have experienced interpersonal violence. Uses behavior-based strategies, play and verbal interpretation as therapeutic interventions. The focus is on improving child-caregiver interactions through play. The therapist acts as a bridge or interpreter between the child and parent.

Circle of Security Parent Training is an eight-week program based on years of research about how to best support and strengthen parent-child relationships. It is designed to help parents give their children a feeling of security and confidence so their children explore, learn, grow and build positive relationships.

Connections, a Project Harmony program, works with schools and health care professionals to identify children in grades K-8 in need of mental health services. Focuses on children who are not receiving child welfare or juvenile justice services. Children are matched with LFS community therapists who are trained in evidence-based practices. Throughout the counseling process, therapists work with the family and a Connections mental health coordinator to help remove financial hardships and other barriers families face in accessing services.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy used to help with symptoms of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). By directly affecting how the brain processes information, EMDR helps people see traumatic memories in new, less distressing ways.

Using Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), parents learn play therapy skills to enhance their parent-child relationship. Parents also learn to manage their child’s behaviors through behavioral principles and discipline techniques.

Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based psychotherapy for children and adolescents (ages 3 to 18) with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other difficulties related to traumatic life events. The goal is to provide both the child and caregiver with the knowledge and skills to help them identify and cope with trauma-related emotions, thoughts and behaviors.

Provides responsibility for the construction and maintenance of all secondary roads. Also covers Mahaska County, IA.

Provides eligible customers with a scholarship for post-secondary education at an accredited Institution.

Maintains and provides access to official documents, including real estate records (mortgages, deeds, contracts, assignments, releases, plats, surveys, and easements), articles of incorporation, partnerships, state and federal tax liens, military records, and vital records such as birth, divorce, and death certificates (Polk County only). Issues and maintains marriage licenses, ATV, boat, and snowmobile licenses/renewals, and serves as a Passport acceptance facility with photo services. 

Offers military records for tax exemptions and benefits. Additionally, issues public health permits to certify compliance with public health laws for various facilities and institutions.

Provides a Child Support Recovery Unit program to assist (both public assistance and non-public assistance) families with child support recovery.

Provides a dual-diagnosis/co-occurring mental health and substance abuse treatment facility. Services include treatment to those with substance use disorder, with or without a mental health diagnosis. Substance use treatment options vary by location, but may include residential treatment, outpatient treatment, virtual addiction treatment, and detoxification.

Also provides medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services.