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Food pantry and voucher program.  Non perishables at food pantry, voucher can be used for perishables at grocery store.

Offers a clothing room with items for men, women, and children.

Provides a two-year community college offering degrees and certificate programs designed for career, job placement, and for transfer to programs at four-year institutions. The college confers the Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Associate in Fine Arts, Associate in Engineering Science, Associate in Applied Science, and Associate in General Studies degrees in an array of traditional and nontraditional disciplines.

DCFS has the primary responsibility of protecting children and strengthening families through the investigation and intervention of suspected child abuse or neglect by parents and other caregivers.

DCFS links families with community services to address struggles families are having, offers preventative services to referred families in an attempt to keep family units together to address findings of abuse/neglect, and works with families who have children under the legal custody of DCFS while working to reunify families when possible or provide a permanent home for children.

As part of its duties, DCFS also licenses and monitors all Illinois child welfare agencies, child care agencies, domestic and international adoption providers, and group homes in the state.

Provides assistance with independent living services for Nebraska youth (generally ages 16-21) who may be aging out of the state foster care system.

Addresses local community planning and economic development through initiatives such as community engagement, leadership development, economic development, improving regional food systems and creating welcoming recreational and functional spaces.

Provides an advocacy group for individuals with mental health concerns and has support groups statewide. It strives to raise public awareness and concern about mental illness, to foster research, to improve treatment and to upgrade the care delivery system. All site locations offer a variety of support groups and educational programs for those with mental health concerns their family and friends. 

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 internal medicine, pediatrics, general health care services, as well as ancillary services including laboratory, x-ray, pharmacy, nutrition, mental health counseling, health education and translation services.

Offers a community center for adults experiencing mental illness, including substance use disorder. Provides a fun, uplifting wellness center staffed by Peer Support Specialists (PSS's). Peer Support Specialists are persons with lived experience of mental illness(es) and Recovery from that/those illness(es). 

Provides home health care services that allow individuals to continue living in the home while receiving medical care. Offers skilled nursing and home health aides, as well as physical, occupational and speech therapy. A medical social worker can also connect individuals to the resources they need.

1st Five aims to increase developmental screening in primary care practices and has a referral system to support children identified as at-risk for developmental delays. 1st Five works with pediatric and family care providers to help link families to the resources and support services their child needs.

Provides law enforcement services to the county, including the operation of correctional facilities.

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.

Provides intensive, family-focused, and community-based treatment program for behaviorally challenged youth. The primary goals are to decrease rates of antisocial behavior, clinical problems, improve functioning (e.g., family relations, school performance), and to reduce the use of out-of-home placements such as incarceration, residential treatment, and hospitalization. 

LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) provides supplemental help for the winter heating bills November 1st through April 15th: LIHEAP Crisis Assistance when funding available provides in a life-threatening situation fuel, heaters, furnace repair; furnace replacement for homeowners when funds available. Applications are accepted October 1-April 30 for elderly or disabled households and November 1-April 30 for all other households. May have some crisis funding available outside the normal LIHEAP months, call local County Outreach Office for availability of funding.

Offers baskets containing food for a holiday meal and gifts for children ages 16 and under.

- Signup is during select dates in October, with varying hours.

- Distribution of baskets takes place the Wednesday the week prior to Christmas.

- Must live with in the area between Brady Street and Lincoln Avenue and River Drive to Kimberly Road.

Serves as an information and educational resource on burns with a focus on awareness and prevention.  Offers free compression garments to burn survivors.  Provides support for those who just need to talk.