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Committed to working in partnership with the community to offer quality health services and programs. A variety of health-related topics are available, including:

- Heart disease.

- Diabetes.

- Obesity.

- Stress management.

- Fitness classes.

- Nutrition and exercise.

- Smoking cessation.

- Pediatrics.

Provides police and dispatch services responsible for emergency assessment and response, including coordination with correctional facilities for the detention, confinement, and management of individuals involved in criminal offenses.

Provides employment services for those who are dislocated workers. Individuals may be considered dislocated workers if they match one of the following situations:

- Lost employment due to a permanent plant closure or mass layoff within the company.

- Position has been eliminated and unable to return to work in that industry or occupation.

- Self-employed, but the economy or a natural disaster is causing the business to fail.

- Displaced homemaker or caregiver who has lost their primary means of support.

- A military spouse, who left a job to follow the military service member, or unable to continue employment because a spouse's change of military station, or lost employment as a result of the military member's discharge from the military.

Offers rent and utility payment assistance. Checks will be issued directly to the landlord or utility providers after confirming funds are available.

Provides support services to individuals caring for a veteran with serious illness or disabilities. For qualifying individuals, access to training, counseling, or respite care may be available.

Housing program which provides stable housing and essential support services for people with serious mental illness.

Services begin with a screening to help get people of all ages to the right treatment. May follow with individual therapy that leads to group therapy, or crisis care that leads to stable housing.

Services include:

- Individual therapy;

- Group therapy;

- Family therapy;

- Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and medication management;

- Psychiatric services;

- Court services;

- Crisis residential/triage services, and more.

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Offers an integrative approach to care by combining medicine with acupuncture to improve overall health. Offers Traditional Chinese acupuncture, Western acupuncture, or a combination of both. Walk-in clinics available on certain days.

Offers FIP (Family Investment Program) a cash assistance program for children and their families who have low income, also available to relatives caring for children whose parents are not in the home. The goal of FIP is to help families leave poverty and become self supporting, can participate for up to 60 months. FIP is Iowa's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18. Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include foster parent recruitment, adoption conversions.

Offers adult basic education to improve basic reading, writing, math, life skills, and employability.

Provides an opportunity for individuals with disabilities to live in their own apartment/home.

Helps people with little income buy food for a healthy diet. An application for Food Assistance must be completed to receive this assistance. Call or visit website for more detailed information.

Offers law enforcement services to the Ringgold County area. Issues gun/firearm permits, runs requested background checks, and manages the county jail.