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Family Support Services specialists provide in-home and community educational and support services to assist with parenting and home management problems that place children at risk of abuse or neglect.

Intensive Family Preservation is a response to a family crisis that may, without intervention, result in the removal of children from the home. Services are varied but may include help with parenting strategies, relationship issues, communication skills, anger management, school problems, behavior problems, and life skills.

Parenting Time services are provided to children who have been removed from their biological family’s home and are now allowed supervised visits with a member of their biological family. Activities include teaching or modeling parenting skills, reinforcing behavioral management skills and teaching coping skills. Specialists help families strengthen bonds by identifying issues that affect the family’s relationships by observing and assessing visits. Specialists also provide information to assist with permanency plans for the child.

Family Support helps build families through strength-based activities such as developing appropriate social skills, teaching parenting and nurturing, creating family bonding, teaching awareness of boundaries, developing self esteem, seeking community resources, seeking employment, and teaching home economics.

Provides community service programs for energy and environmental education. 

Offers to work with surrounding communities and businesses to develop procedures and preparations in the case of an emergency or disaster. Services include testing of sirens on the first Tuesday of every month, working with the Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant to ensure safety in case of a nuclear disaster, coordinating with the National Weather Service to notify the public in case of a severe weather alert, and working with companies in the local area that deal with hazardous materials.

Offers to help children in grades 4-12 develop knowledge and skills. Services include learning about citizenship, leadership, cooking, arts and crafts, mechanics and technology, horticulture, agriculture, and other subjects. To teach young people about these subjects, the 4-H program uses the learn-by-doing method of instruction.

Provides a comprehensive range of medical, diagnostic, and testing services locally. Services include specialty clinics such as allergy, dietary, counseling, ear nose and throat, oncology, pulmonology, and surgery (both inpatient and outpatient). Emergency medical care is available for individuals requiring immediate assistance for acute illnesses or injuries. 

Additional offerings include cardiac rehabilitation, social services, physical, occupational, and speech therapies, wellness programs, and sleep disorder clinics for preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services. 

Hospice care is provided for terminally ill individuals and their families, offering medical care, pain management, emotional and spiritual support, and bereavement services. Health and disability-related support groups are available to connect individuals, families, and friends for mutual support and resource sharing.

Offers medical and legal advocacy. Confidential, around-the-clock legal and medical advocacy is available for survivors and their families.

Medical Advocacy: Clove Alliance advocates are always available to support survivors, their families, and friends during a visit to the emergency room for a medical examination or evidence collection. Advocates can also accompany clients to any follow-up medical appointments, help them receive reimbursement for medical costs associated with the crime, and answer questions on the following:

- Medical exams.

- Evidence collection (rape kit).

- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs/STDs).

- Pregnancy and emergency contraception. 

 - Medications.

- Follow-up medical care.

- Crime Victims Compensation through the Illinois Attorney General's Office.

- Referrals.

- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE).

Legal Advocacy, Clove Alliance staff advocates walk with survivors through the police and courtroom procedures, maintain an awareness of the status of each

Offers to help individuals develop abilities and skills to be successful in roles within their chosen living, learning and social environments.

Provides comprehensive support services to immigrant or refugee farm workers who are legally authorized to work in the United States, migratory, and seasonal farmworkers, including educational assistance, short-term certification programs, job training, and career placements. The program aims to address chronic seasonal unemployment and underemployment experienced by agricultural workers by helping them cover costs related to career and training programs, such as tuition, books, tools, equipment, or stipends for class attendance.

Additionally, the program offers vocational assessment, job search assistance, and professional mentoring to prepare individuals for employment opportunities, including recognition of prior professional experience and obtaining initial work experience. Proteus administers the program as a recipient of the NFJP grant through the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.

Offers individual counseling and tele-health counseling settings. Services cover a variety of mental health issues and topics. Therapy and supportive services include art therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization/reprocessing (EMDR), peer counseling, play therapy, and trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy.

Offers a program for parents and youth individuals ages 10-14 to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together. 

Offers a program for parents and youth individuals ages 10-14 to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together. 

Offers a program for parents and youth individuals ages 10-14 to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together. 

Offers a program for parents and youth individuals ages 10-14 to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together. 

Recruits, screens, trains, and supports volunteers (Court Appointed Special Advocates) who are appointed by a juvenile court judge to advocate for a child, who is under the jurisdiction of the court due to abuse or neglect.

CASAs maintain contact with the children during the entire court jurisdiction period. Work with attorneys, therapists, parents, foster parents, and all adults involved with the child; and get to know the child's needs and makes reports to the court, so a more informed decision can be made.

Provides skilled nursing services to persons in their home.

Services provided include

- Home Health Aide: Assists with hygiene care, teaches patients and/or caregivers how to safely bathe and groom the patient, obtains vital signs, looks for abnormalities in skin turgor, and reports any abnormalities.

- Nursing Care: Complicated wound care, IV therapy (including PICC line care and removal), blood testing, staple/suture removal, injections, pre-fill insulin syringes, diabetes education, medication instruction, ostomy and gastrotomy instructions and care, tracheostomy instructions and care, etc.

- Physical therapy.

• Speech therapy.
• Occupational therapy (to re-teach basic living skills).

Mental health services include mental health assessments, depression/anxiety/mental illness counseling, family therapy, stress/anger management counseling, trauma/abuse counseling, parenting and relationship counseling.

Substance abuse services include substance abuse evaluations, adolescent substance abuse groups, adult intensive outpatient (IOP), adult relapse prevention, drug court provider, family court provider, voucher provider and priority population: women who are pregnant and IV users.

Shelter Plus Care is project based rental assistance for single adults who are chronically homeless and experiencing problems with serious mental illness, substance dependence, or co-occurring disorders.

Supportive Living is housing for adults and families who are experiencing problems with serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders with priority for individuals transitioning out of the Lincoln Regional Center, Crisis Center, or other emergency levels of care.

Overland Trail Apartments provide Section 811 housing assistance in one bedroom apartments for adults experiencing problems with serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders.

Transitions provides independent living apartments and case management for transition age young adults, 18-24, who are experiencing homelessness and problems with substance abuse, mental illness, or co-occurring disorders.

Transitions II provides rental assistance for small families where a parent is experiencing homelessness and problems with serious mental illness, substance abuse, or co-occurring disorder.

Glide transitional housing in scattered site apartments in addition to case management services is provided for single, homeless adults over 19 years of age who have substance use and mental health disorders.

Permanent housing is a housing and case management service for single, homeless adults over 19 years of age who have substance use and mental health disorders.

Law enforcement agency.