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

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 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. 

May provide grants for gas, insurance, DMV fees (licensing and registration), vehicle repairs, bus/Uber/Lyft rides, and more, for local transportation only.

This grant program focuses on persons in a temporary transportation crisis, including persons who have lost a job, lost income due to a death of a loved one, experienced high medical bills, experienced a natural disaster, or are starting over due to domestic violence, as well as other possible emergencies.

Those who qualify need a way to show stability moving forward past the temporary assistance provided.

Helping Homes is designed to help elderly and low-income customers reduce their energy costs through energy-saving home improvements. This includes insulation, air sealing (i.e. caulking and weather stripping), lighting upgrades, or other measures shown to reduce energy costs. Program is open as funds are available.

Offers a hands-on class for boys and girls ages 11 to 13 who want to learn to care for younger children.

Food pantry providing canned goods and other dry products.

Provides assistance with dressing, personal cares, cooking, toileting, transferring, ambulation, mobility, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, minor wound care, financial and scheduling assistance, communicating with others, transportation to and from the doctor, essential shopping, picking up medication from the pharmacy, and medication assistance.

Offers veterans (ill or injured post 9/11 veterans within 10 years of discharge) and their families the opportunity to live in a rent-free, single-family home for a period of two to three years while receiving financial counseling and community reintegration support.

Academic assistance program funded through TRIO Grants by the U.S. Department of Education. The program is designed for low-income, first-generation college students or students with a disability. Participants will have the opportunity to meet with their TRIO/SSS advisor once a month, and are encouraged to participate in one of the various program activities each month.

Individual Support:

- A thorough needs assessment and development of a Student Success Plan

​- Required academic advising and success coaching

​Personal Support:

- Career Exploration

- Leadership Conferences

- TRIO Club

​- Assistance completing FAFSA, scholarship and transfer applications

​- Financial Literacy Education

​- Student Success Workshops

​- Cultural Field Trips

​- Team Building Activities

Academic Support:

- Structured first-year experience course

​- Academic transfer assistance and visits to four-year colleges

​- Access to a free laptop or iPad through the TRIO Device Loan Program

- Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction

​- College Readiness Boot Camp

​- Educational Field Trips

Provides therapy for a wide range of problems including couples problems, depression, anxiety, childhood and adolescent behavioral issues, trauma, and grief. Services are available outside of normal business hours.

Offers a matching fund program to help with utility bills for Ameren customers only.

Offers books, DVDs, and CDs for loan and public computer access.