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A female support group where family, children and everything and anything can be discussed. 

Offers both short and long-term experiences for youth. Short-term experiences include afterschool programs, camps, school-sponsored activities, conferences, and other events. Long-term experiences include learning communities in agriculture such as county clubs.

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.

Offers a food pantry serving the McHenry county area. Clients may access the food pantry once per month. Food is pre-bagged.

Provides a limited monthly disbursed grant for individuals to be used to pay for basic needs including food, rent/shelter, utilities, clothing or other essentials. The maximum monthly benefit for a General Assistance recipient has been set at $200.

Offers before and after school care, and half-day and full-day care to children from low to moderate-income families. Provides experiences in areas of development vital to the early years.  STEAM (Science, Technology. Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) centered curriculum introduces children to problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, curiosity, decision making, and more. The program provides children with nutritious meals and snacks, as well as healthy physical activity.

Provides long-term care to help veterans and their families when dealing with a disability, chronic (long-lasting) illness, or serious health issues related to aging. Long-term health care services include 24 hour nursing and medical care, physical therapy, and help with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, making meals, and taking medicine.

Offers one-and two-bedroom, non-smoking, apartments for low-income individuals ages 18 and older. 

Provides 24-hour hotline and domestic violence program services that include:

- Emergency shelter

• Advocacy-based counseling services
• Legal advocacy
• Support groups
• Services for children and youth
• Transitional housing services with survivors of domestic violence

Seasonal assistance with outdoor household activities for eligible Batavia residents who are unable to afford assistance with these tasks.

Services currently available:

- Leaf Raking - In early Nov, volunteers are available to rake leaves to the curb for city pick up (must call to register).

- Snow Removal - From Dec-March, volunteers will shovel driveways and walkways for registered residents (must register in advance).

Offers a place for individuals, families, businesses, and organizations to invest in the Muscatine County community. Disperses money to any number of different causes through one place. Donors can give to any 501c3 or government entity, avoiding administrative hassle and fees of family foundations.

Provides emotional and practical support to individuals facing mental health challenges. Using shared life experiences to offer encouragement, build hope, and foster empowerment. Peer support can help individuals navigate recovery, develop coping skills, and connect to community resources, all while promoting personal growth and self-advocacy. 

Family Peer Support, Family peer support specialists work specifically with families of individuals who are experiencing mental health challenges. Family peer specialists offer guidance, resources, and emotional support to help families better understand the struggles of their loved ones. Offering coping strategies, enhance communication within the family, and help families connect to services and support networks, fostering a more supportive home environment for recovery. 

Peer Recovery Specialists, peer recovery specialists assist individuals in achieving and maintaining long-term recovery from substance use disorders. They offer practical support such as goal setting, skills building, and crisis intervention, alongside emotional encouragement. Through shared experiences, they serve as mentors and role models, helping individuals create personalized recovery plans and connect with resources for housing, employment, and social services.

Provides outpatient behavioral health services to those in need. Services include counseling (both individual and group), therapy, supported employment for individuals with mental and behavioral health challenges, and psychosocial rehabilitation (groups to help people with daily living skills and mental illness recovery).

Central hub for reporting cyber crime, run by the FBI, the lead federal agency for investigating cyber crime.

Types of complaints accepted include business email compromise, ransomware, elder fraud (victims 60 and over), and other cyber crime.

Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

Provides volunteer transportation for eligible community members to access medical appointments, food resources, pharmacies, libraries, churches, and other community services. Services include transportation provided by volunteers through HIRTA Helps volunteer stations, which are local public agencies and nonprofit organizations. Volunteers receive mileage reimbursement and supplemental and liability insurance.

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