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Developmental screening, connection to community resources, home visits, and monthly family socialization activities available for qualifying families.

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 both practical and social/emotional help to older adults adjusting to vision loss.

Content (online, large print, braille and audio) is available free of charge to anyone with a visual impairment and to those who support them.

Library of learning content ranges from tips and techniques for everyday living with low vision to an extensive range of instruction on assistive technology and braille.

Information about pests, food production (including gardening), turf and landscape, and water quality.

Provides mental health services including therapy, talk therapy, assessments and evaluations, group services, medication management, nutritionist help, and more. Counseling services may be provides in person or through virtual/telehealth appointments. 

Finances the creation and preservation of affordable housing throughout the state to increase the supply of decent and safe places for people of low or moderate means to live.

Provides first-time home buyer information and home purchase and loan assistance.

HUD-certified housing counselors across the state offer financial tools to help with finances and housing.  The directory of counselors is available on the website.

Provides statewide law enforcement and traffic safety services. Enforces traffic laws, promotes safe driving, and provides specialized law enforcement services, including collision investigations, commercial vehicle enforcement, and tactical response.

Back to School Giveaway distributes backpacks filled with school supplies for Head Start -12th grade students from low-income households. Free supplies for the first 1,500 kids.

GIVEAWAY LOCATION: the 13 DMARC Food Pantries around Polk County will have school supplies to hand out for the bash. Backpacks will be available at the food pantries starting Fall 2026, first come, first serve. Visit website to find a DMARC food pantry https://dmarcunited.org/get-help/find-a-pantry/

Provides law enforcement services to the city. 

Provides mental health and substance abuse treatment services for children, adolescents and adults. Also offers therapy, medication management, case management for children, adolescents and adults. Offers a full array of crisis intervention services for adults, including an Access Center, crisis stabilization/observation unit, and a mental health drop in center.

Provides financial resources, or refers individuals to the CBRAP program. For financial support, must have received an eviction notice to receive assistance with rent. Funding is limited to housing crises caused by situations beyond the individuals control, and requires documentation that the individual has the means to pay rent moving forward.

Negotiates with current creditors to lower or eliminate the interest rate (typically to 2% to 8%) and have clients debt-free in five years or less.

- There is no prepayment penalty.

- Clients can leave the program at any time, although the creditors may return the interest rates to previous levels.

- Regardless of how many creditors are owed, this program works on a single, consolidated monthly payment.

Provides senior centers and congregate meal sites for seniors ages 60 and over. The locations provide the opportunity to meet other seniors for recreational, social, and educational activities.

Congregate Meals

- DeKalb Club 55, meal served Wednesdays at 12 pm

- Malta Club 55, meal served Monday and Friday at 12 pm

Potlucks and Parties

- DeKalb Club 55, second Friday of the month starting at 12 pm

- Malta Club 55, bring your own lunch Wednesdays starting at 12 pm

Offers to connect adult volunteers ages 55 and over with opportunities to engage in service to the community. Volunteers choose what fits their passions, interests, and schedules. The agency partners with the public, non-profit, and health care organizations to address needs in the areas of education, food security, independent living, financial security, disaster, and more.

Offers library services and programs for youth including story times. Items that may be borrowed from or used in the library include DVDs, large print materials, audio books, magazines, and newspapers. The library also provides access to computers, WIFI access available, reference, and information services.

Childhood and adult vaccines and flu shots available.

Provides a UPD Trunk or Treat. Visit website for more information.

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

Focuses on outreach, engagement, and face-to-face counseling services for seniors. Senior Community Specialists assist seniors with navigation and access to entitlements and other benefits, support services and appropriate community resources.

Receives donations of unused ostomy products from all over the country.

2026 Information:

Registration during regular food pantry hours (Mon, Wed, Fri 9 am-11:30 am, 3rd Wed only afternoon pantry 2:30 pm-5 pm) beginning October 2, 2026, until all slots are filled. Choose a Thanksgiving or Christmas basket.

Provides assistance with bathing and other types of personal care.