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Provides behavioral health services for individuals in need. Services include behavioral health screening and counseling, crisis intervention, medication management, and substance abuse screening/counseling.

Emergency operations center for the County, which handles emergency response incidents, including accidents, fires, floods, storms and other disasters. Also responsible for requesting federal assistance after a disaster.

The Circuit Clerk is the official record keeper of the Court. All cvil, probate, traffic, criminal, and juvenile cases are filed through the Clerk's office. Also collects and disperses all monies ordered to be paid by the court.

Provides help to participants to recognize and understand their abusive behaviors and refrain from engaging them. Through education and support, individuals who have committed acts of domestic violence are taught alternative methods of communicating with their partners and begin to build relationships that allow for open respectful communication and trust.

Classes are offered in Spanish and English, in a group setting.

Maintains parks throughout the community, contracts with adjacent special recreation districts for some services.

Collects and distributes funds to agencies in various communities in southern Kane and Kendall Counties.

Also provides information and referrals to and about United Way funded agencies.

Personal emergency response service (Medical Alert) that gets help at the push of a small button.

Assists students who need additional credits. Assists school administrators in finding an appropriate program to meet the needs of at-risk youth who are not functioning in the traditional education environment.

All Alternative School Programs contain the following components:

• Safety: School uniforms, dress requirements, daily check-ins through metal detectors, and closed campus environment.

• Behavior Management Program: Student success plans, individual education plans, behavior level systems, attendance requirements, effort grades, collaboration with social agencies, and court services.

  - Standardized Curriculum: Instruction in math, science, language arts, and social studies at all grade levels. Course objectives are based on Illinois Learning Standards. Use of Internet and computer daily in all programs.

  - Work Coop and Community Service: Students are involved in work coop instruction and receive credit for community service activities.

Provides activities that are centered around a weekly theme. A typical day includes, active group game, crafts, clubs, free play, 30-minute break time with age-appropriate math and reading activities. Youth leaders have specialized training prior to start of camp and are CPR /First Aid certified. Children bring a lunch daily.

Offers a free and confidential crisis line for veterans. Can also help with local suicide prevention coordinators, who can connect veterans to ongoing counseling and services in their area.

Provides enhanced services to pregnant and post-partum women, health education services such as the importance of continued prenatal care, prenatal and postpartum nutrition education services, normal changes during pregnancy, self-care during pregnancy, and warning signs to report to a doctor. Can also provide information on labor and delivery, the normal process of labor, signs of labor, coping skills, danger signs, referrals to child birth classes, and breastfeeding information and support!

Presumptive eligibility for Medicaid can be processed by staff at New Opportunities, Inc. Presumptive eligibility is temporary Title 19 insurance for pregnant women while it is being determined if eligible for Medicaid services.

Provides weatherization services to low income households, which helps conserve fuel and reduce energy costs by making homes and apartments more energy efficient. Also provides many health and safety upgrades.

Services vary, but may include insulation installation, HVAC repair or replacement, electric base load reduction (lighting and refrigerator replacement), and air sealing.

Maximum $15,000 for energy-related weatherization and repair work (per client's home). Maximum $3,500 for health and safety-related measures.

Offers friendly visits to socially isolated adults.

Offers a food pantry.

Offers individual and family therapy through a comprehensive behavioral health program designed to provide therapeutic intervention in the lives of McHenry County youth and their families.

Assists youth in developing the insight, skills and strategies to improve their functioning. Using evidence-based approaches, outpatient therapy provides high quality intervention to improve the lives and futures of young people.

Offers family therapy to enhance the communication and dynamics within the family.

Provides equine-assisted experiences to enhance the quality of life and cultivate personal growth through therapeutic, educational, recreational, and social development for persons with disabilities.

Programs improve physical capabilities and functional skills, as well as providing students with leisure time, physical activity, and social interaction.

Provides peer support recovery services to individuals in recovery from mental illness or dual diagnosis of mental illness and substance use disorders. Services are individualized and recovery-focused to allow individuals the opportunity to learn to manage their own advocacy process. Peer support may include peer mentoring or coaching, resource connecting facilitating and leading recovery educational and support groups, advocating for the person/family served, or building community support.