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Offers education and information to expectant or current parents to improve parenting skills and increase self-sufficiency, clients earn "Hope Points" to spend on baby essentials, clothing, and other supplies for the home.

Provides rescue and adoption services. Offering a safe haven for local animals who are strays or have owners who can no longer care for them. Also offers dog training, affordable spay/neuter services, foster program and transport program.

Offers family caregivers who provide in-home care to an older individual or grandparents raising grandchildren the opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills that address their care giving roles through personalized in-home instruction or formally structured group workshops.

Provides various veterinary services, from vaccinations and wellness care to surgery and diagnostic services. Houses city and county stray dogs and cats and offers an adoption program for them. See the website for services and animals available for adoption.

Provides service coordination, nutrition services, and health assessments for children ages 0-3 enrolled in Early ACCESS (Early intervention for infants and toddlers). 

General medical care for all. Services include:

- Audiology.

- Family medicine.

- ENT.

- Gastroenterology.

- Internal medicine.

- Pediatrics.

Provides free groceries to any family in need. Grocery giveaway is only offered twice a month. 

Educational information offered related to disaster preparedness and recovery, beef cattle production, and cropping and water systems.

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

Provides an outreach programs seeking to assure that limited-English-proficient immigrants and refugees eligible for WIC and SNAP benefits can successfully access these programs administered by IDHS.

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) administers this program through a network of community-based partner agencies.

Outpatient therapy for children and adults. Therapies used include Parent Child Interaction Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Lifespan Integration, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Technique, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Critical Incident Stress Management, Substance Use Disorder Psychotherapy, and Play Therapy.

Outpatient psychiatric services include evaluations and diagnosis, and medication management.

Offers youth and adult fitness classes, swim lessons, arts and crafts classes, and more.

Outpatient counseling for individual, marital, and family (all ages). In-school behavior therapy program in area elementary schools.

Provides health research, public education, professional education, and speakers' bureau on heart-related diseases.

Provides outpatient mental health therapy, medication management, and psychiatric assessments. Services are offered to adults with disabilities, including individuals with Mental Illness, Intellectual Disability, or other Developmental Disabilities, who require support in multiple areas. 

The program integrates Medicaid funding and county regional funding to assist individuals in transitioning back into the community after hospitalization for acute or chronic mental or emotional disturbances. 

Eligibility requires qualification for Polk County Regional funding; individuals may or may not be eligible for Medicaid.

Provides crisis intervention and case management services to abused children. Services include support to the child and the non-offending family members, linkage to counseling and medical services for the child, court support services, and screenings. 

Instructional media is comprised of four lending libraries which supply supplemental media services to the school districts in Area 9. The library contains books, videos, CDs, DVDs, Iowa Public Television programs, and whole language set programs. The Professional Library is a collection of books, educational journals, and audio and video tape resources designed for professional growth and development for educators. The Curriculum Laboratory is a display area for new curriculum resources which may be examined by educators to facilitate material selection and purchase. Both basic and supplemental resources with a variety of formats are available in all academic areas.

Parent-Educator Resource Library provides books, videos, and periodicals on disabilities, special education, and general parenting topics. Resources are available to parents and teachers for one-month checkout on the website.

Provides supplemental groceries, soaps, and personal products to residents in need.